We use recent immigration data from 195 countries and propose an index of population diversity based on people … uncorrelated with ethnic, linguistic or genetic diversity. Our main result is that the diversity of skilled immigration relates … gravity model to predict the share and diversity of immigration based on exogenous bilateral variables. The results are robust …

society. The paper suggests that skilled immigration promotes economic equality in advanced economies under standard …

size, skills, and diversity of immigration on the innovativeness of host regions. For this purpose we construct a panel of …'s restaurants as a novel instrument for immigration. The results confirm that innovation is clearly a function of regional … population in a certain locality. -- immigration ; cultural diversity ; economic growth ; innovation ; spatial autocorrelation …

that at least skilled immigration promotes economic equality in the host country under standard conditions. The context is …

What obstacles prevent the most productive technologies from spreading to less developed economies from the world … distances between populations, and document how such distances, relative to the world’s technological frontier, act as barriers …