rural India across the entire welfare distribution. The paper establishes that the disadvantage suffered by two historically … the SC and the ST households must remain a focus of attention besides promoting a more active labor market in rural India. …

state and federal levels in India. As a consequence, significant inter-caste and inter-religion differences in earnings have …-religion earnings in India during the 1987-99 period, using the 43rd and 55th rounds of National Sample Survey (NSS). Our results …

This article investigates the relationships between ethnicity, class, and prospects of educational success. For this …

Why does inequality vary across societies? We advance the hypothesis that in a market economy, where earning … differentials reflect variations in productive traits among individuals, a significant component of the differences in inequality … across societies can be attributed to variation in societal interpersonal diversity, shaped by the prehistorical out …

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

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 …

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 …

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 … in different technological areas (extensive margin). We find that ethnic diversity plays an important role in propelling …

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 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 …