The economic value of cultural diversity
Subtitle: evidence from US cities
By: Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano, Giovanni Peri.
Contributors: Peri, Giovanni.; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series ;; working paper 10904; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;; working paper no. 10904.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Multiculturalism -- Economic aspects -- United States.; Immigrants -- United States -- Economic conditions.
Description: "What are the economic consequences to U.S. natives of the growing diversity of American cities? Is their productivity or utility affected by cultural diversity as measured by diversity of countries of birth of U.S. residents? We document in this paper a very robust correlation: US-born citizens living in metropolitan areas where the share of foreign-born increased between 1970 and 1990, experienced a significant increase in their wage and in the rental price of their housing.  Such finding is economically significant and survives omitted variable bias and endogeneity bias.  As people and firms are mobile across cities in the long run we argue that, in equilibrium, these correlations are consistent only with a net positive effect of cultural diversity on productivity of natives"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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