کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
5066864 1476802 2014 36 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Labor diversity and firm productivity
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
تنوع کار و بهره وری شرکت
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی اقتصاد، اقتصادسنجی و امور مالی اقتصاد و اقتصادسنجی
چکیده انگلیسی


- We find that ethnic diversity is significantly and negatively correlated with firm productivity.
- Conversely demographic diversity seems not to matter.
- The evidence regarding diversity in education is mixed.

Using a matched employer-employee data-set, we analyze how workforce diversity associates with the productivity of firms in Denmark, following two main econometric routes. In the first one, we estimate a standard Cobb-Douglas function, calculate the implied total factor productivity and relate the latter to diversity statistics in a second stage. This reduced-form approach allows us to identify which types of labor heterogeneity appear to descriptively matter. In the second approach, we move toward a richer production function specification, which takes different types of labor as inputs and that allows for flexible substitution patterns, and possible quality differences between types. Both methods show that workforce diversity in ethnicity is negatively associated with firm productivity. The evidence regarding diversity in education is mixed.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: European Economic Review - Volume 66, February 2014, Pages 144-179
نویسندگان
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