Christoph Michael Hindermann uses a statistical approach to analyze the impact of economic freedom on state legitimacy …. Based on multiple regression models, the author not only extracts the determinants of legitimacy but also shows that rule of … law is the most important area of economic freedom for legitimacy. In addition, the results also indicate that democracies …

We use recent immigration data from 195 countries and propose an index of population diversity based on people …'s birthplaces. This new index is then decomposed into a size (share of foreign born) and a variety (diversity of immigrants …) component and is available for 1990 and 2000 disaggregated by skill level. We show that birthplace diversity is largely …

We use recent immigration data from 195 countries and propose an index of population diversity based on people …'s birthplaces. This new index is then decomposed into a size (share of foreign born) and a variety (diversity of immigrants …) component and is available for 1990 and 2000 disaggregated by skill level. We show that birthplace diversity is largely …

We empirically investigate the relationship between a country's economic complexity and the diversity in the … birthplaces of its immigrants. Our cross-country analysis suggests that countries with higher birthplace diversity by one standard … deviation are more economically complex by 0.1 to 0.18 standard deviations above the mean. This holds particularly for diversity …

We empirically investigate the relationship between a country's economic complexity and the diversity in the … birthplaces of its immigrants. Our cross-country analysis suggests that birthplace diversity is strongly and positively associated … with economic complexity. This holds particularly for diversity among highly educated migrants and for countries at …