Peter Nijkamp

TL;DR: In this article, the authors trichotomise the various labour market outcomes as benefiting, harming or not affecting the native born, and use an ordered probit model to assess the relationship between this observed impact and key study characteristics such as type of country, methodology, period of investigation and type of migrant.

Abstract: To investigate econometrically whether cultural diversity of a firm’s employees boosts innovation, we create a unique linked employer‐employee dataset that combines data from two innovation surveys in The Netherlands with administrative and 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 The positive impact of diversity on product or process innovations is greater among firms in knowledge-intensive sectors and in internationally‐oriented sectors The impact is robust to accounting for endogeneity of foreign employment

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify and explain patterns of regional specialization and manufacturing concentration in Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Romania and Slovenia, and find that patterns of manufacturing relocation are country-specific.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors take an encompassing approach and consider a broad range of labour market outcomes: wages, employment, unemployment and labour force participation, and trichotomise the various labour market outcome as benefiting, harming or not affecting the native born, and use an ordered probit model to assess the relationship between this observed impact and key study characteristics such as type of country, methodology, period of investigation and type of migrant.