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DP5891
Poverty Traps, Distance and Diversity: The Migration Connection
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Publication Date:
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October 2006
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Link to this Page:
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www.cepr.org/pubs/dps/DP5891.asp.asp
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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.
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