Cultural Diversity, Institutions, and Urban Economic Performance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4139853 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tom Kemeny (0000-0003-4984-9104, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, corresponding author), Thomas Kemeny (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Pages | 2134-2152 |
| Publication date | 2012-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1068/a44385 |
| OpenAlex | W2077682545 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 57 |
Interactions between culturally diverse individuals can spur economic benefits by stimulating new ideas that raise urban residents' productivity. But diversity can also diminish economic well-being by making communication difficult, and by stimulating conflict. This paper investigates whether urban institutions-in particular residents' sense of generalized trust-determine when diversity is an economic asset and when it is a liability. To do so, data on trust, birthplace diversity, wages, and demographics in US metropolitan areas are combined. The evidence suggests that workers are much better able to harness the productivity-enhancing spillovers that arise from cultural diversity when they live in cities endowed with strong informal institutions
Business · Cultural diversity · Demographic economics · Demographics · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Liability · Metropolitan area · Productivity · Sociology · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies · Taxation and Compliance Studies
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Immigrant diversity, integration and worker productivity
Migrant and ethnic diversity, cities and innovation
Spillovers from immigrant diversity in cities
Urban density after Jane Jacobs
Immigration and the quality of life in U.S. metropolitan areas
The Cost and Benefit of Regional Cultural Diversity on the Income of Rural Workers
Migrant Networks in the Urban Labour Market
The economic consequences of cultural diversity in political organizations
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Diversity, innovation and entrepreneurship
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How migrant inventors and informal institutions enable green innovation in EU regions
The economic geography of immigrant diversity
Urban Immigrant Diversity and Inclusive Institutions
Does Assimilation Shape the Economic Value of Immigrant Diversity
Cultural Diversity and Entrepreneurship in England and Wales
Psychology and the Geography of Innovation
Approximating entrepreneurial superdiversity
Cities and economic development
The Difference
Demography and Design
Ethnicity, Politics and Economic Performance
Problem Solving by Heterogeneous Agents
Where Did All the Growth Go? External Shocks, Social Conflict, and Growth Collapses
Estimating the social return to higher education
Urban Concentration
Innovation in cities
Explaining African Economic Performance
Nursery Cities
Chapter 49 Evidence on the nature and sources of agglomeration economies
Ethnic Diversity and Economic Performance
Geographic Localization of Knowledge Spillovers as Evidenced by Patent Citations
On the mechanics of economic development
Institutions and Economic Performance
Bowling alone
Africa's Growth Tragedy
The Skill Content of Recent Technological Change
World Handbook of Political and Social Indicators, 1961-1963
Philosophy and Public Affairs
Work Group Demography, Social Integration, and Turnover
Who trusts others
Participation in Heterogeneous Communities
Trust, Inequality and Ethnic Heterogeneity
Immigrant Inflows, Native Outflows, and the Local Labor Market Impacts of Higher Immigration
Productivity in cities
The economic value of cultural diversity
Buzz
Demographic structure and the political economy of public education
Immigration and housing rents in American cities
Spatial wage disparities
Productivity Gains from Geographic Concentration of Human Capital
Determinants of generalized trust
Wages, Rents, and the Quality of Life
Growth in Cities
Globalisation and the Market for Team‐Mates
Trust and Growth
E Pluribus Unum
Civic Engagement and Community Heterogeneity
Inaccurate, Exceptional, One-Sided or Irrelevant? The Debate about the Alleged Decline of Social Capital and Civic Engagement in Western Societies
All for All
Social Trust and Value Change
Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions
Does Diversity Pay
Quality and acceptance of problem solutions by members of homogeneous and heterogeneous groups
Can Institutions Resolve Ethnic Conflict
Human Capital and Social Capital
The Strength of Weak Ties
| Unique citing works | 19 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,58 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |