Special Session on Cultural Diversity, Skills and Productivity: The labour market impacts of immigrants

Event date: Tuesday 30th August 2011 - Saturday 3rd September 2011

The contributors to this special session will be focusing on the following topics:
• Migration theory and regional development
• Impact of immigrants on economic growth (Labour mobility and agglomeration,
Heterogeneous skills and occupations (tasks) of immigrants, Cultural diversity and firm productivity, Immigrants and innovative sectors)
• Migration statistics and measuring cultural diversity

Special Session organizers:
Anette Haas (Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany)
Thomas de Graaff (Free University, Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Ceren Ozgen (Free University, Amsterdam, Netherlands)