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Diversity to Foster Innovation: Using the Lens of Brazilian Microdata

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  • Filipe Lage de Sousa Author-Name: Glaucia Estefânia de Sousa Ferreira Author-Name: Leandro Justino Pereira Veloso Author-Name: Synthia Kariny Silva de Santana

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A variety of factors enable firms to innovate and eventually to improve their performance. The contribution of workforce diversity to innovation has been under-explored in empirical work. The main objective of this study was to highlight the relationship between innovation in the Brazilian private sector and workforce diversity by gender, age, and race. Using detailed firm-level data, including an employer-employee dataset, our results suggest that even though some costs are associated with workforce diversity, its benefits can offset them in most innovation outcomes.

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  • Filipe Lage de Sousa Author-Name: Glaucia Estefânia de Sousa Ferreira Author-Name: Leandro Justino Pereira Veloso Author-Name: Synthia Kariny Silva de Santana, 2020. "Diversity to Foster Innovation: Using the Lens of Brazilian Microdata," Working Papers PMMA 2020-11, PEP-PMMA.
    • Handle: RePEc:lvl:pmmacr:2020-11
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    workforce diversity; innovation; gender; age; race;
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    JEL classification:

    • D24 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
    • J21 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
    • O31 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives

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