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Evolution and the growth process : natural selection of entrepreneurial traits

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evolutionary advantage, diminishing the growth potential of advanced economies and contributing to convergence in economic growth …

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Cultural diversity, geographical isolation, and the origin of the wealth of nations

Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2012

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Geographical origins and economic consequences of language structures

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The macrogenoeconomics of comparative development

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Diversity and conflict

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This research advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that interpersonal population diversity has contributed significantly to the emergence, prevalence, recurrence, and severity of intrasocietal conflicts. Exploiting an exogenous source of variations in population diversity across...

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The effect of migration on income growth and convergence : meta-analytic evidence

Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2009

long-run real income convergence and derive 67 comparable effect sizes. The precision-weighted estimate of beta convergence … is more consistent with endogenous self-reinforcing growth than with neoclassical convergence. Introducing a net … migration variable in a growth regression increases the estimate of beta convergence slightly. Studies that use panel models or …

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Immigrants' "ability" and welfare as a function of cultural diversity : effect of cultural capital at individual and local level

Tubadji, Annie; Gheasi, Masood; Nijkamp, Peter - 2014

This paper presents an operationalization of a mixed Bourdieu–Mincer-type model that seeks to find evidence for individual and local cultural capital effects on human capital 'ability'. We aim to compare these effects for native workers and immigrants (as well as between immigrants themselves)...

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