informed debate on the socio-economic implications of cultural diversity. This book offers a solid statistical and econometric … research in this volume sheds light on several consequences of cultural diversity, including positive impacts on innovation … communities. Throughout the volume, it is evident that the effects of cultural diversity on socio-economic outcomes depend largely …

Cultural diversity - in various forms - has in recent years turned into a prominent and relevant research and policy … issue. There is an avalanche of studies across many disciplines that measure and analyse cultural diversity and its impacts …. Based on different perspectives and features of the available data, a great variety of diversity indicators have emerged …

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 …

An important question for firms and policy makers is whether the recruitment of foreign workers can boost innovation …. Migration studies have demonstrated positive economic impacts of cultural diversity on productivity and innovation at the … diversity. Potential endogeneity of migrant employment is addressed by an instrumental variables approach that accounts for the …

Cultural diversity is a complex and multi-faceted concept. Commonly used quantitative measures of the spatial … empirically. This paper provides evidence on the empirical properties of various spatial measures of cultural diversity by using … maps that enable us to assess the performance of various spatial measures of cultural diversity under a range of …

Cultural diversity is a complex and multi-faceted concept. Commonly used quantitative measures of the spatial … empirically. This paper provides evidence on the empirical properties of various spatial measures of cultural diversity by using … output maps that enable us to assess the performance of various spatial measures of cultural diversity under a range of …

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 …