, 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

We study the relationship between major religious denominations and individuals' levels of education, using the World … denominations using various thresholds. It is robust to controlling for whether the denomination is a state religion, for the …

Using a matched employer-employee data-set, we analyze how workforce diversity in terms of cultural background … the firms' production function (Ackerberg et al. 2006), we find that labor diversity in education significantly enhances a … firm's value added. Conversely, diversity in ethnicity and demographics induces negative effects on firm productivity …

if “cultural diversity” affects total factor productivity. We distinguish diversity in the establishment's workforce and … composition inside the establishment. Diversity thus seems to induce externalities beyond the boundaries of a single firm; it …

ethnic diversity on the performance of business teams using a randomized field experiment. We follow 550 students who set up … ethnic diversity has no effect on team performance in terms of business outcomes (sales, profits and profits per share …). However, if at least the majority of team members is ethnically diverse, then more ethnic diversity has a positive impact on …

We estimate the impact of workforce diversity on productivity, wages and productivity-wage gaps (i.e. profits) using … econometric issues, show that educational (age) diversity is beneficial (harmful) for firm productivity and wages. The … consequences of gender diversity are found to depend on the technological/knowledge environment of firms. While gender diversity …