EconPapers    
Economics at your fingertips  
 

The Heterogeneous Effects of Workforce Diversity on Productivity, Wages and Profits

Andrea Garnero, Stephan Kampelmann and Francois Rycx

No 1304, CEPREMAP Working Papers (Docweb) from CEPREMAP

Abstract: We estimate the impact of workforce diversity on productivity, wages and productivity-wage gaps (i.e. profits) using detailed Belgian linked employer-employee panel data. Findings show that educational (age) diversity is beneficial (harmful) for firm productivity and wages. While gender diversity is found to generate significant gains in high-tech/knowledge intensive sectors, the opposite result is obtained in more traditional industries. Estimates neither vary substantially with firm size nor point to sizeable productivity-wage gaps except for age diversity.

Keywords: labour diversity; productivity; wages; linked panel data; GMM (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D24 J24 J31 M12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 51 pages
Date: 2013-09
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-age, nep-eff, nep-eur, nep-hrm, nep-lab, nep-lma and nep-ure
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (5)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.cepremap.fr/depot/docweb/docweb1304.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: The Heterogeneous Effects of Workforce Diversity on Productivity, Wages, and Profits (2014) Downloads
Working Paper: The Heterogeneous Effects of Workforce Diversity on Productivity, Wages, and Profits (2014)
Working Paper: The Heterogeneous Effects of Workforce Diversity on Productivity, Wages, and Profits (2014)
Working Paper: The heterogeneous effects of workforce diversity on productivity, wages and profits (2013) Downloads
Working Paper: The Heterogeneous Effects of Workforce Diversity on Productivity, Wages and Profits (2013) Downloads
Working Paper: The heterogeneous effects of workforce diversity on productivity, wages and profits (2013) Downloads
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:cpm:docweb:1304

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in CEPREMAP Working Papers (Docweb) from CEPREMAP Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Mathieu Perona ().

 
Page updated 2025-03-22
Handle: RePEc:cpm:docweb:1304