Peripheral Diversity and Redistribution

Klaus Desmet, Ortuño-Ortin, Ignacio and Shlomo Weber

No 5112, CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research

Abstract: This paper investigates the effect of ethnolinguistic conflict on redistribution. The analysis focuses on the conflict arising between ?peripheral? minority groups and a dominant ?centre?. We propose an index of linguistic conflict that (i) encompasses both diversity and polarization, and (ii) accounts for the distance between languages. Our results suggest that linguistic diversity is a better predictor of redistribution than linguistic polarization. We also find that incorporating linguistic distances improves the predictive power of our conclusions.

Keywords: Linguistic diversity; Redistribution; Polarization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D60 D74 H50 Z10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005-06
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