The empirical evidence on the economic impacts of diversity is mixed. Many studies in the literature present context-dependent and data-driven results which are challenging to reconcile with each other. This paper offers a systematic synthesis of the empirical findings on the economic impacts of diversity on innovation, productivity and the labour market. It presents a structured framework which takes the spatial scale of the analysis in the papers as a reference to understand the inconsistency of some previous predictions and the varying magnitudes of the diversity impact. The empirical findings reconcile more meaningfully when diversity effects are documented discretely at the regional, firm and individual levels. The paper further sets out an agenda for future research and links the findings for policy relevance.

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多样性经济学：创新、生产力和劳动力市场

关于多样性的经济影响的经验证据好坏参半。文献中的许多研究提出了依赖于上下文和数据驱动的结果，这些结果很难相互协调。本文对多样性对创新、生产力和劳动力市场的经济影响的实证研究结果进行了系统综合。它提出了一个结构化的框架，它采用空间尺度论文中的分析作为参考，以了解一些先前预测的不一致和多样性影响的不同程度。当在区域、公司和个人层面离散地记录多样性影响时，实证结果会更有意义地协调。该文件进一步列出了未来研究的议程，并将研究结果与政策相关性联系起来。