Poverty Traps, Distance and Diversity: The Migration Connection

Jeffrey Gale Williamson ()

No 5891, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

Abstract: Within-country ethnic diversity in high-wage immigrant nations is driven by long distance migration. This paper documents the migration-diversity connection for the first global century before 1914 and the second global century after 1950. It distinguishes between ethnic diversity among the foreign-born, between the foreign-born and nativeborn and for total populations using country-of-birth data. It exploits the polarization index made popular in the recent diversity-growth debate and exploits an emigration life cycle model to predict the connection. It also shows how policy matters.

Keywords: emigrant life cycle; ethnic diversity; migration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J6 N3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006-10
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