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 …

To investigate econometrically whether cultural diversity of a firm's employees boosts innovation, we create a unique … tax data. We calculate three distinct measures of diversity. We find that firms that employ fewer foreign workers are … generally more innovative, but that diversity among a firm's foreign workers is positively associated with innovation activity …

whether there are some productivity-enhancing externalities gained from this growing diversity within firms. In recent years … migration research has demonstrated positive economic impacts of cultural diversity on productivity and innovation at the … regional level. However, there is a dearth of research on the links between innovation and migrant diversity at the firm level …

labour market. In particular there has been a notable increase in the diversity of nationalities of which the foreign … workforce is composed. In this paper we investigate the effects of this diversity for native employees. Our analysis is … results imply that diversity raises productivity at the local level, but that it is important to distinguish the skill …

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 …