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  • Valuing Cultural Diversity of cities
    Research Papers in Economics, 2019
    Co-Authors: David C. Maré, Jacques Poot
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    This paper revisits whether Cultural Diversity is a source of local production and/or consumption amenities. We adapt the analytical framework of Roback (1982, 1988) and Chen & Rosenthal (2008) to estimate the impact of Cultural Diversity on city wage and rent premiums from hedonic regressions. We focus on New Zealand which – with high residential mobility and ease of setting up business – is particularly suited to this framework. Additionally, our estimates are based on a very large data set: complete unit record census data on individuals and dwellings in 110 urban areas spanning 32 years. Controlling for observed and unobserved city characteristics, and for the potential endogeneity of Diversity, we find that Cultural Diversity serves as a local positive production amenity and a weakly negative consumption amenity. The results are mostly robust to measuring Cultural Diversity by birthplace, ethnicity or religion; and to using a range of measures of Diversity. We conclude that the presence of people from different Cultural backgrounds enhances the profitability of urban firms. In contrast, a city’s population has a weak preference for living near others who are Culturally similar to them. The effects are stronger in larger cities.

  • The Economics of Cultural Diversity
    2015
    Co-Authors: Peter Nijkamp, Jacques Poot, Jessie Bakens
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    Contents: Preface1. E Pluribus Prosperitas: On Cultural Diversity and Economic DevelopmentJessie Bakens, Peter Nijkamp and Jacques PootPART I: SOCIOECONOMIC DETERMINANTS OF Cultural Diversity2. Cultural Diversity - A Matter of Measurement Peter Nijkamp and Jacques Poot3. Ethnic Goods and Immigrant AssimilationIlhom Abdulloev, Gil S. Epstein and Ira N. Gang4. The Determinants of Religiosity among Immigrants and the Native Born in EuropeMariya Aleksynska and Barry R. Chiswick5. Economic Integration Challenges: Aboriginal Population in Saskatchewan, CanadaM. Rose Olfert and Iryna LobachPART II: Cultural SEGREGATION AND SORTING6. Canada's MultiCulturalism and Domestic MigrationMichael R. Betz, M. Rose Olfert and Mark D. Partridge7. Do Better Educated intend to Return? Evidence from Estonian Return Migration from FinlandEnel Pungas, Ott Toomet and Tiit Tammaru8. Ethnic Segregation and Crime: Are Offenders Ethnically Biased When Choosing Target Areas?Wim Bernasco9. Ethnic Heterogeneity at Neighbourhood Level in the NetherlandsAslan Zorlu and Joop HartogPART III: SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACTS OF Cultural Diversity10. Establishments' Cultural Diversity and Innovation: Evidence from GermanyStephan Brunow and Bastian Stockinger11. All in the Mix? Top Team Demographics and Business Performance in English Firms, 2008-9Max Nathan12. The Cultural Percolation of New Knowledge: A Regional Analysis for Cultural Impact on Knowledge Creation in the EU27Annie Tubadji and Peter Nijkamp13. A U.S. State-Level Analysis of Self-Employment, Cultural Diversity, and Risk Tolerance Brian J. Osoba14. Foreign Scientists and Engineers and Economic Growth in Canadian Labor MarketsGiovanni Peri and Kevin Shih15. International Financial Transfers by Foreign Labour: Remittances from Informal MigrantsMasood Gheasi, Peter Nijkamp and Piet Rietveld16. Ethnic Diversity and Firm Productivity in the NetherlandsJan Mohlmann and Jessie BakensIndex

  • Cultural Diversity: A Matter of Measurement
    Social Science Research Network, 2015
    Co-Authors: Peter Nijkamp, Jacques Poot
    Abstract:

    Cultural Diversity – in various forms – has in recent years turned into a prominent and relevant research and policy issue. There is an avalanche of studies across many disciplines that measure and analyse Cultural Diversity and its impacts. Based on different perspectives and features of the available data, a great variety of Diversity indicators have emerged. The present paper aims to highlight some critical issues involved in applying such measures of Cultural Diversity. A selection of commonly used or recently advocated measures are reviewed. Measures of population Diversity can be calculated at different spatial scales and used to analyse spatio-temporal heterogeneity. Additionally, there is a growing interest in measuring spatial dependence, particularly in the form of segregation or clusters.We conclude that there will be in the future considerable scope for adopting multidimensional and Cultural distance-weighted measures of Diversity. Such measures will be increasingly calculated by means of rich geo-referenced longitudinal micro data. However, adopted measures must be better motivated by behavioural theories. Further research on the determinants and impacts of observed measures of Diversity is also likely to be fruitful, particularly in a dynamical setting.

Peter Jones - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Political theory and Cultural Diversity
    Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 1998
    Co-Authors: Peter Jones
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    How should we deal with social Diversity if we conceive it as Cultural Diversity? Appeals to Cultural relativism and to the collective good of Diversity provide inadequate answers. Taking Cultural Diversity seriously requires that we respond to it fairly or justly and that, in turn, requires an approach that is impartial (or neutral) amongst cultures. Claims of impartiality are often thought peculiarly implausible when applied to Cultural Diversity, but an impartialist approach is in fact peculiarly appropriate to that form of Diversity. The issue is not whether we can be impartial, but whether we are ready to accept the implications of describing a Diversity as ‘Cultural’ and, if we are, what form our impartiality should take. Attempts to avoid claims of impartiality by dealing with Diversity through deliberative processes are misguided since those processes must embody commitments to impartiality if their outcomes are to be just.

Louis E. Wolcher - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Cultural Diversity and Universal Human Rights
    Social Science Research Network, 2012
    Co-Authors: Louis E. Wolcher
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    Although the UNESCO Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity declares that the defense of Cultural Diversity is an "ethical imperative," it also states that "no one may invoke Cultural Diversity to infringe upon human rights guaranteed by international law, nor to limit their scope." The Declaration's fulsome praise for "good" Cultural Diversity is therefore hedged by a prior commitment to upholding universal human rights. What is diverse is precious, it seems to be saying, but what is universal is even more precious.This essay attempts to unpack the meaning and significance of the distinction between these points of view for the discourse and practice of international human rights. It aspires to move the discussion of Cultural Diversity in the sphere of human rights to a level that is deeper than that which is allowed for by the usual (and ultimately sterile) verbal opposition between "universalism" and "Cultural relativity." The goal is to clarify as much as possible the relevant points of agreement and disagreement about the nature of the inherently limited ethical imperative to tolerate and protect Cultural Diversity. The essay does this by reflecting on the dialectically linked concepts of unity and Diversity and by investigating what it really means to say that different groups of people have different "beliefs" about what is morally and legally permissible or mandatory. The international law norms that protect human rights are, like all normative systems, expressed in general (i.e. abstract) terms. The essay contends that if one wants to discover whether differently situated people agree or disagree about the significance of these norms the right place to look is not at the words expressing the norms themselves, but at how those words are actually applied to real, concrete cases, each one of which retains the inherent potential to disrupt if not explode the unity of the normative field.

Aaron Zhang - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Effects of Cultural Diversity on Global Teams
    Social Science Research Network, 2008
    Co-Authors: Aaron Zhang
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    Today, Cultural Diversity is becoming significantly remarkable when organizations cross boundaries. Indeed, companies are faced with challenges of creating Cultural synergy in globalized organizations. Without special attention to Cultural Diversity and synergy, the effectiveness and performance of such organizations often fail to be realized. In this paper, extant researches are reviewed to understand the importance of how Cultural Diversity impact on global teams. In addition, integrations of these empirical researches to business are more focused on, as well as a conclusion, which explores a list of guides from a practical perspective for managing a global team effectively, is emphasized.