WebBirthplace Diversity and Economic Prosperity Alberto Alesina, Johann Harnoss ( [email protected]) and Hillel Rapoport No 7568, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) Abstract: We use recent immigration data from 195 countries and propose an index of population diversity based on people's birthplaces. WebBirthplace Diversity and Economic Prosperity. EN. English Deutsch Français Español Português Italiano Român Nederlands Latina Dansk Svenska Norsk Magyar Bahasa …
Birthplace diversity and economic prosperity
WebDiversity of immigration (or immigrants' birthplace diversity) has been shown to boost economic performance at dierent levels of aggregation: countries (Ortega and Peri (2014), Alesina et al. (2016) and Bove and Elia (2016)), regions (Trax et al. (2015)), US metropolitan areas, counties and states (Ottaviano and Peri (2006), Ager and Brückner … WebNov 16, 2016 · This is confirmed by Figure 1, which displays the percentage changes in birthplace diversity between 1960 and 2010, for all world countries. We used an almost-exhaustive dataset on international migration between 1960 and 2010, and computed diversity by identifying the nationality of the immigrants.1 banks in lebanon ky
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WebWe show that birthplace diversity is largely uncorrelated with ethnic, linguistic or genetic diversity and that the diversity of immigrants relates positively to measures of economic prosperity. This holds especially for skilled immigrants in richer countries at intermediate levels of cultural proximity. WebAug 22, 2013 · “ Birthplace diversity and economic prosperity ”. NBER Working Paper No 18699, January. Easterly, W and R Levine (1997), "Africa's Growth Tragedy: Policies and Ethnic Divisions." Quarterly Journal of Economics, 112 (4): 1203-1250. 1 Specifically, the richest and most productive half of the sample. WebThis research explores the emergence and prevalence of economic specialization and trade in pre-modern societies. It advances the hypothesis, and establishes empirically that population diversity had a positive causal effect on economic specialization and trade. Based on a novel ethnic level dataset combining geocoded ethnographic, linguistic and … banks in liloan cebu