Alesina, Alberto; Rapoport, Hillel; Harnoss, Johann - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2013
The diversity of people has economic costs and benefits. Using recent immigration data from 195 countries, we propose … the high (workers with college education) and low-skill fractions of the workforce. We show that birthplace diversity is … related to economic development even after controlling for education, institutions, ethnic and linguistic fractionalization …