foreign direct investment on the labour productivity of domestic firms. A key policy change during this time period was the … foreign firm ownership and BEE on labour productivity. Regardless of the empirical specification we find no spill over effects … and no evidence that a greater degree of BEE compliance by foreign firms influences labour productivity …

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 … thereby reduce productivity. We apply a new measure of languages' linguistic proximity to Norwegian linked employer …

possibility among women and investigate if race/ethnicity and birthplace still have a role to play in the decision to use welfare … even after controlling for income, health and other demographic factors like employment. We find that race does not matter …

-wage compensation across race groups. Our results show that African American men on average are significantly less likely to receive …

than just matching their academic ability to the institution, and prefer institutions with a large proportion of same race … students and campuses where same race students from their high school have been successful in the past …

-2002 and could the inclusion of the White immigrant population be driving this result? Second, do within race differences in … race and cohort differences exist in the Black-White self-employment gap. A subgroup of U.S. born African-Americans have a …