The nexus between labor diversity and firm's innovation

Journal of Population Economics

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 303-364

  Parrotta, Pierpaolo ^a,b   Pozzoli, Dario ^b,c,d   Pytlikova, Mariola ^c,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c KORA The Danish Institute for Local and Regional Government Research   (Denmark)

^d IZA   (Germany)

^e VSB TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF OSTRAVA   (Czech Republic)

^f CReAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ethnic diversity; Extensive and intensive margins; Labor diversity; Patenting activity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893652124     PISSN: 09331433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00148-013-0491-7     Document Type: Article

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