Increasing diversity in higher tiers of occupations is a strongly debated topic and subject to legislation and reform … providing evidence how stakeholders perceive and evaluate diversity. …

Cultural diversity - in various forms - has in recent years turned into a prominent and relevant research and policy … issue. There is an avalanche of studies across many disciplines that measure and analyse cultural diversity and its impacts …. Based on different perspectives and features of the available data, a great variety of diversity indicators have emerged …

We study the importance of linguistic diversity in the workplace for workplace productivity. While cultural diversity … might improve productivity through new ideas and innovation, linguistic diversity might increase communication costs and …-employee Manufacturing data from 2003-12, and find that higher workforce linguistic diversity decreases productivity. We find a negative …

, the model implies that the overall demand for religious schooling is an increasing function of both the local religiosity … rate and the level of religious pluralism, as measured by a Herfindahl Index. Using both U.S. county-level data and … also illustrate that failing to control for the local religiosity rate, as is common in previous studies, may lead a …

Religious divisions have long played a primary role in major conflicts throughout much of the world. Intergroup contact …

We use recent immigration data from 195 countries and propose an index of population diversity based on people …'s birthplaces. This new index is then decomposed into a size (share of foreign born) and a variety (diversity of immigrants …) component and is available for 1990 and 2000 disaggregated by skill level. We show that birthplace diversity is largely …

This paper investigates how ethnic diversity, measured by the immigrants' countries of origin, influences the well … diversity on the well-being of German citizens. To corroborate the robustness of our results, we estimate several alternative …

data and exploit exogenous variation in both immigration flows and diversity induced by former settlements, WWI and the …, we also find that immigrant diversity acts as an additional significant pull factor. This is mainly due to externalities …

This paper empirically revisits the impact of birthplace diversity on economic growth. We use panel data on US states … of robustness checks. Our results suggest that diversity among college-educated immigrants positively affects economic … R&D sector. The gains from diversity are maximized when immigrants originate from economically or culturally distant …

We empirically investigate the relationship between a country's economic complexity and the diversity in the … birthplaces of its immigrants. Our cross-country analysis suggests that countries with higher birthplace diversity by one standard … deviation are more economically complex by 0.1 to 0.18 standard deviations above the mean. This holds particularly for diversity …