Table of Contents

Contents:

Preface
1. E Pluribus Prosperitas: On Cultural Diversity and Economic Development
Jessie Bakens, Peter Nijkamp and Jacques Poot

PART I: SOCIO-ECONOMIC DETERMINANTS OF CULTURAL DIVERSITY
2. Cultural Diversity – A Matter of Measurement
Peter Nijkamp and Jacques Poot

3. Ethnic Goods and Immigrant Assimilation
Ilhom Abdulloev, Gil S. Epstein and Ira N. Gang

4. The Determinants of Religiosity among Immigrants and the Native Born in Europe
Mariya Aleksynska and Barry R. Chiswick

5. Economic Integration Challenges: Aboriginal Population in Saskatchewan, Canada
M. Rose Olfert and Iryna Lobach

PART II: CULTURAL SEGREGATION AND SORTING
6. Canada’s Multiculturalism and Domestic Migration
Michael R. Betz, M. Rose Olfert and Mark D. Partridge

7. Do Better Educated Emigrants Intend to Return? Evidence from Estonian Return Migration from Finland
Enel Pungas, Ott Toomet and Tiit Tammaru

8. Ethnic Segregation and Crime: Are Offenders Ethnically Biased When Choosing Target Areas?
Wim Bernasco

9. Ethnic Heterogeneity at Neighbourhood Level in the Netherlands
Aslan Zorlu and Joop Hartog

PART III: SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACTS OF CULTURAL DIVERSITY
10. Establishments’ Cultural Diversity and Innovation: Evidence from Germany
Stephan Brunow and Bastian Stockinger

11. All in the Mix? Top Team Demographics and Business Performance in English Firms, 2008-9
Max Nathan

12. The Cultural Percolation of New Knowledge: A Regional Analysis of the Cultural Impact on Knowledge Creation in EU27
Annie Tubadji and Peter Nijkamp

13. A US State-Level Analysis of Self-Employment, Cultural Diversity, and Risk Tolerance
Brian J. Osoba

14. Foreign Scientists and Engineers and Economic Growth in Canadian Labor Markets
Giovanni Peri and Kevin Shih

15. International Financial Transfers by Foreign Labour: Remittances from Informal Migrants
Masood Gheasi, Peter Nijkamp and Piet Rietveld

16. Ethnic Diversity and Firm Productivity in the Netherlands
Jan Möhlmann and Jessie Bakens

Index

About the Author

Edited by Peter Nijkamp, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland, Jheronimus Academy of Data Science (JADS) in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands and the Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza din Iasi, Iasi, Romania, Jacques Poot, National Institute of Demographic and Economic Analysis, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand and Jessie Bakens, School of Business and Economics, Maastricht University, the Netherlands