Introduction : Multiculturalism and the welfare state : setting the context / Keith Banting and Will Kymlicka -- Do multiculturalism policies erode the welfare state? An empirical analysis / Keith Banting, Richard Johnston, Will Kymlicka, and Stuart Soroka --'If you are my brother, I may give...

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...