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 … whether there are some productivity-enhancing externalities gained from this growing diversity within firms. In recent years …

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

In this paper we investigate the nexus between firm labor diversity and innovation using a linked employer … instrumental variable strategies, we are able to identify the contribution of workers' diversity in cultural background, education … and demographic characteristics to valuable firm's innovation activity. The latter is measured by: (1) the firm …

conclude that our results support the hypothesis that gender-diversity in leading positions is an advantage for start-up firms. …

The paper examines if workplace gender diversity offers some explanation for the decline of unions in Britain. Using … between workplace union density and gender diversity. Gender and ownership status based sub-group analyses suggest the inverse … positive link between workplace union density and gender diversity in workplaces with a female majority. The findings in this …

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 …

-to-the-world innovation is inherently risky and therefore may increase the probability of firm death. However, many existing studies … fail to distinguish between innovation investments and innovation capital. Using an unbalanced panel of over 290 … innovation and survival and find that current innovation investments increase the probability of death while innovation capital …