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Cultural Diversity: A Matter of Measurement
Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Cultural diversity – in various forms – has in recent years turned into a prominent and relevant research and policy issue. There is an avalanche of studies across many disciplines that measure and analyse cultural diversity and its impacts. Based on different perspectives and features of...
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Dynamic Ethnic Fractionalization and Economic Growth in the Transition Economies from 1989 to 2007
Campos, Nauro F.; Saleh, Ahmad; Kuzeyev, Vitaliy S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
In their survey of the literature on ethnic fractionalization and economic performance, Alesina and La Ferrara (JEL … ethnic fractionalization on economic growth across countries using unique time-varying measures. We first replicate the … latitude), it shows a significant negative impact on economic growth which is robust to different specifications, polarization …
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Socio-Spatial Transformations, Suburbanisation, and Voting Behaviour in the Vilnius Urban Region
Ubarevičienė, Rūta; Burneika, Donatas; van Ham, Maarten - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper analyses the interrelationship between the process of suburbanization and a changing political and ethnic landscape in the Vilnius urban region. The region surrounding Vilnius city is dominated by Polish identity residents while those who suburbanise into the region are mainly ethnic...
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Diversity and Public Goods: A Natural Experiment with Exogenous Residential Allocation
Algan, Yann; Hémet, Camille; Laitin, David D. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper demonstrates the effects of ethnic and religious diversity on the quality of public spaces. Its identification strategy relies on the exogeneity of public housing allocations in France, and thereby eliminates the bias from endogenous sorting. The paper uses micro evidence of social...
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Genetic Diversity and the Origins of Cultural Fragmentation
Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Despite the importance attributed to the effects of diversity on the stability and prosperity of nations, the origins of the uneven distribution of ethnic and cultural fragmentation across countries have been underexplored. Building on the role of deeply-rooted biogeographical forces in...
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Spatial Changes in Labour Market Inequality
Lindley, Joanne; Machin, Stephen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
important features of labour market polarization, as they have resulted in faster employment growth in high skill occupations …
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Unconditional and Conditional Wage Polarization in Europe
Naticchioni, Paolo; Ragusa, Giuseppe; Massari, Riccardo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
distribution shows scant signs of polarization in Europe. On the other hand, the effect of technology is more nuanced. At the … industry level, technological changes have an effect on polarization of jobs, but not on polarization of wages. At the … occupations, and we find only mild evidence of wage polarization. Technology affects the lower and upper part of the wage …
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Revisiting the German Wage Structure
Dustmann, Christian; Ludsteck, Johannes; Schönberg, Uta - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper challenges the view that the wage structure in West-Germany has remained stable throughout the 80s and 90s. Based on a 2 % sample of social security records, we show that wage inequality has increased in the 1980s, but only at the top of the distribution. In the early 1990s, wage...
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Economic Science and Political Influence
Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
institutes, the extent to which intellectual competition between different schools of thought may lead to polarization of views …
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Inequality and Specialization: The Growth of Low-Skill Service Jobs in the United States
Autor, David; Dorn, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
After a decade in which wages and employment fell precipitously in low-skill occupations and expanded in high-skill occupations, the shape of U.S. earnings and job growth sharply polarized in the 1990s. Employment shares and relative earnings rose in both low and high-skill jobs, leading to a...
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