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Impacts of immigration and cultural diversity on innovation and economic growth
Full text linkNijkamp, P. [Promotor]Poot, H.J. [Promotor
The impact of cultural diversity on firm innovation: evidence from Dutch micro-data
Full text linkAn 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 regional level, but the impacts at firm level are less well known. Merging data from four different sources, provided by Statistics Netherlands, we construct and analyze a unique linked employer-employee micro dataset of 4582 firms that includes qualitative information on firm innovation. We consider both the number of immigrants these firms employ and their cultural diversity. Potential endogeneity of migrant employment is addressed by an instrumental variables approach that accounts for the past geographic distribution of immigrants and the past culinary diversity of the municipality the firm is located in. We find robust evidence that firms employing relatively more migrants are less innovative. However, there is evidence of integration in that this effect is generally less strong or even absent for second generation immigrants. Moreover, firms employing a more diverse foreign workforce are more innovative, particularly in terms of product innovations. The benefits of diversity for innovation are more apparent in sectors employing relatively more skilled immigrants
Walking the Dog - a motive for daily walks, illustrated for the urban park and Nature 2000 area Bosjes van Poot (city of The Hague, the Netherlands)
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Bosjes van Poot : onderzoek bezoekers en honden
No full textDe Bosjes van Poot is een duingebied dat sinds 1990 behoort tot Natuurmonument Westduinpark. Daarmee valt het onder de Natuurbeschermingswet en in 2008 wordt de aanwijzing tot Natura 2000 gebied verwacht. In opdracht van Dienst Stadsbeheer van Den Haag is nu een onderzoek opgezet en uitgevoerd om beter zicht te krijgen op een gewenst hondenbeleid. De vraagstelling is hoeveel honden er gebruik maken van het gebied en hoe dat over het gebied verdeeld i
The impact of immigration on international trade: a meta‐analysis
Full text linkSince the early 1990s many studies have been conducted on the impact of international migration on international trade, predominantly from the host country perspective. Because most studies have adopted broadly the same specification, namely a log‐linear gravity model of export and import flows augmented with the logarithm of the stock of immigrants from specific source countries as an additional explanatory variable, the resulting elasticities are broadly comparable and yield a set of estimates that is well suited to meta‐analysis. We therefore compile and analyze in this paper the distribution of immigration elasticities of imports and exports across 48 studies that yielded 300 estimates. The results confirm that immigration boosts trade, but its impact is lower on trade in homogeneous goods. An increase in the number of immigrants by 10 percent increases the volume of trade by about 1‐2 percent The migrant elasticity of imports is on average similar to that of exports. The estimates are affected by the choice of some covariates, the nature of the data (cross‐section or panel) and the estimation technique. Elasticities vary between countries in ways that cannot be explained by study characteristics; host country differences in immigration policies do apparently matter for the trade impact. The trade‐enhancing impact of migration appears to be greater for migration between countries of different levels of development than between developed countries
The impact of immigration on the employment of natives in regional labour markets: A meta-analysis
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