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 … migrant communities as valid instruments of endogenous migrant settlement. We find that firms in which foreigners account for …

To investigate econometrically whether cultural diversity of a firm's employees boosts innovation, we create a unique … linked employer-employee dataset that combines data from two innovation surveys in The Netherlands with administrative and … generally more innovative, but that diversity among a firm's foreign workers is positively associated with innovation activity …

This paper discusses the determinants of product innovation in young innovative companies (YICs) by looking at in …-house R&D is linked to the propensity to introduce product innovation both in mature firms and YICs; however, innovation … intensity in the YICs is mainly dependent on embodied technical change from external sources, while - in contrast with the …

trade and a skill biased technological change. Another possible source for this phenomenon, that has received less attention … paper analyses the interdependencies between labour demand for high and low skilled employees, innovation activities and … the German Federal Employment Office. Our empirical results indicate that technological change in the form of product …

technological changes on gross job and worker flows. The empirical results indicate that organizational change is skill …

an estimated relative change of the conditional labour demand ranging between 3.2% and 6.3%. Between white collar workers …

set on innovation for a large number of Italian firms over the 1990's. There is evidence that banking development affects … the probability of process innovation, particularly for small firms and for firms in high(er) tech sectors and in sectors … more dependent upon external finance. The evidence for product innovation is weaker. There is also some evidence that …

innovative inputs on a sample of 3045 manufacturing firms drawn from the third Italian Community Innovation Survey (1998 …-2000). The interactions between four different sources of innovation internal and external R&D, embodied and disembodied … complementarity and substitutability relationships, depending both on the typology of the targeted innovation output and on the …