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Poverty Traps, Distance, and Diversity: The Migration Connection / Jeffrey G. Williamson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Williamson, Jeffrey G.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w12549.
- NBER working paper series no. w12549
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Poverty Traps, Distance, and Diversity
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2006.
- Summary:
- 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 native-born 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.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- October 2006.
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