Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/234183 
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Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
CEPIE Working Paper No. 03/21
Publisher: 
Technische Universität Dresden, Center of Public and International Economics (CEPIE), Dresden
Abstract: 
Diversity of a country is often measured by the amount and spread of nationalities that live there. But also within a country, regions vary in their traditions and culture. Cultural homogeneity within communities is mixed up by (internal) migration, that, like international migration, increases diversity of a place. In a novel approach I therefore look at diversity in German municipality associations measured by different family names and investigate the effect it has on the number of generated patents. I show that cultural diversity and openness of a place affect its economic performance positively in terms of innovation also when referring to intra-country differences.
Subjects: 
cultural diversity
innovation
openness
phonebook
patents
local level
Germany
kulturelle Diversität
Innovation
Offenheit
Telefonbuch
Patente
lokal
Deutschland
JEL: 
O31
R12
Z10
J61
O1
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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