The scope of immigrants' transnational ties and the relationship to their social position is subject to a controversial … scholars in migration and assimilation studies hold that it is the most underprivileged immigrants who maintain strong ties …

This article traces inequality and numeracy development in the regions of Chile during the 19th and early 20th century … converged somewhat during this period. In addition, we study the correlates of low-intensity immigration in Chile. Regions with …. Inequality, measured with anthropometric methods, was associated with a lower speed of human capital formation. Not all talents …

We use small Italian regions (i.e. provinces) to investigate the causal effect of foreign immigration on innovation … during 2003-2008. Using instrumental variables estimation (based on immigrants' enclaves), we find that the overall stock of … immigrants did not have any effect on innovation. However, decomposing the overall effect into the contributions of low- and high …

of tertiary-educated immigrants were 16.4% for France, 21.8% for Germany, 15.4% for Italy and 18.5% for Spain. Now …-educated immigrants. In this paper, we make an attempt to partly fill the gap concerning the effects of overall immigration on innovation …Immigration has recently been at the centre of the political and economic agenda. Economists have studied extensively …