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Human Capital Diversity and Product Innovation:
A Micro-Level Analysis
- Autor(in)
- Erschienen
- 28. April 2010
- Nummer des Discussion-Papers
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2010-027
- Schlagwort(e)
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Diversity
Human Capital
Innovation
- Zusammenfsg.
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The paper investigates the relationship between human capital diversity measured in terms of occupational diversity and a firm's likelihood to innovate. The empirical analysis is based on a linked employer-employee panel dataset of German firms over the period 1998 to 2007. Despite notable differences between service and manufacturing firms, our results clearly indicate a positive relationship between occupational diversity and the propensity to innovate.
- article pub. typess JER
- Research article
- article languages JER
- Englisch
- JEL-Classification for JER
- J24 - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; L20 - General ; O31 - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives