Labor diversity and firm productivity.

Autor/inn/en	Parrotta, Pierpaolo; Pozzoli, Dario; Pytlikova, Mariola
Titel	Labor diversity and firm productivity. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Beschäftigtenstruktur und Unternehmensproduktivität.
Quelle	In: European economic review, 66 (2014) February, S. 144-179 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0014-2921; 1873-572X
DOI	10.1016/j.euroecorev.2013.12.002
Schlagwörter	Diversity Management; Substitution; Sprachbarriere; Altersstruktur; Nationalität; Produktivität; Produktivitätseffekt; Beschäftigungsstruktur; Qualifikationsstruktur; Ausländeranteil; Geschlechterverteilung; Heterogenität; Dänemark
Abstract	"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." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2014/3