international trade. Ethnic networks are a way of overcoming informal barriers (information costs, risk and uncertainty) to trade by … struggle of the local population to prevent such assimilation. These activities affect trade possibilities. Moreover, we show … that it may well be in the interest of migrants who specialize in trade to, at some point in time, turn from investing in …

cohort. Evidence using a large German data set suggests ethnicity does matter: the size of the ethnic network has a positive …

the role of ethnicity and ethnic identity for relative economic performance. …

in Germany. Our data include a large number of migration variables, allowing us to adapt a recently developed concept of …

measurement challenge and lacking adequate data, we apply several measures of ethnicity and examine various data sources as well …

, intra-urban mobility, suburbanisation, and long-distance migration) for residents of the segregated post-Soviet city of …

hypothesis is that, in sub-Saharan Africa, the slave trade represents the deep factor behind contemporary attitudes toward … children of foreigners, that these attitudes are also negatively related to the intensity of the slave trade, and that the … underlying link between trust and the slave trade is confirmed. Alternative factors—conflict, kinship, and witchcraft beliefs …