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Cultural Remittances and Modern Fertility

Melki, Mickael - 2024

We argue that migrants played a significant role in the diffusion of the demographic transition from France to the rest of Europe in the late 19th century. Employing novel data on French immigration from other European regions from 1850 to 1930, we find that higher immigration to France...

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Ancestry, Language and Culture

Spolaore, Enrico - 2015

We explore the interrelationships between various measures of cultural distance. We first discuss measures of genetic distance, used in the recent economics literature to capture the degree of relatedness between countries. We next describe several classes of measures of linguistic, religious,...

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The unemployment experience of male immigrants in England

Wheatley Price, Stephen - 1998

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The employment adjustment of male immigrants in England

Wheatley Price, Stephen - 1998

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Ethnic differences in the incidence and determinants of employer-funded training for male employees in Britain

Shields, Michael; Wheatley Price, Stephen - 1997

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Culture, Ethnicity and Diversity

Desmet, Klaus - 2015

We investigate the empirical relationship between ethnicity and culture, defined as a vector of traits reflecting norms … overlap between culture and ethnicity, finding that the level of economic development is positively associated with cultural … diversity and negatively associated with the overlap between culture and ethnicity. Finally, although only a small portion of a …

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Long-Term Barriers to Economic Development

Spolaore, Enrico - 2013

What obstacles prevent the most productive technologies from spreading to less developed economies from the world's technological frontier? In this paper, we seek to shed light on this question by quantifying the geographic and human barriers to the transmission of technologies. We argue that...

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