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Genetic distance and international migrant selection
Krieger, Tim; Renner, Laura; Ruhose, Jens - 2015 - This version: July 2015
This paper looks at the effect of the relatedness of two countries, measured by their genetic distance, on educational migrant selection. We analyze bilateral country-level education-specific migration stocks from 85 sending countries to the 15 main destination countries in 2000 and show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011300374
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Culture, selection, and international migration : conference paper
Krieger, Tim; Renner, Laura; Ruhose, Jens - 2014 - Preliminary
This paper looks at the e ffect of cultural barriers on the skill selection of international migration. The data covers bilateral migration stocks by skill level in 2000 from about 99 sending countries to the main 15 destination countries. We use genetic distance as a proxy for cultural distance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010485255
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When Drains and Gains Coincide : Migration and International Football Performance
Berlinschi, Ruxanda; Schokkaert, Jeroen; Swinnen, Johan … - 2012
We analyze the effects of football player migration to foreign leagues on the performance of their home country … national teams. We provide a theoretical model predicting a positive effect of migration on international football performance … cross country data on international football performance. In order to accurately measure the effect of skill acquisitions by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014192496
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Is it Worth Being Inscribed in the World Heritage List? A Case Study of 'The Baroque Cities in Val Di Noto' (Sicily)
Cuccia, Tiziana - 2020
This article deals with the effects of the inscription of a cultural site which is contained in the UNESCO World Heritage List (WHL); in particular, it focuses on the case of the “Baroque cities in Val di Noto” (Sicily, Italy), which is a serial site, constituted by a large number of towns...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012857290
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Who benefit from globalization of labor? : evidence from the 'Bosman Ruling'
Xu, Dafeng - 2014
As an old Chinese proverb says, "visiting monks give better sermons." European soccer clubs also believe this, and have always been seeking for foreign players to boost competitiveness. However, due to the reason of protectionism, there were restrictions that each club was only allowed to field...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011490642
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Culture, diversity, and the welfare state
Gründler, Klaus; Köllner, Sebastian - 2018
We show that culture and diversity strongly influence welfare systems around the globe. To disentangle culture from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011789109
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Chapter 13 Culture and Economic Development
Streeten, Paul - In: Handbook of the economics of art and culture : volume 1, (pp. 399-412). 2006
This chapter begins by noting that culture as an element in economic development in the Third World has been largely … neglected in traditional development economics, most writers either seeing culture as an obstacle to development or ignoring it … altogether. Recently a shift in thinking has occurred whereby culture is now more widely seen as being more central to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023816
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Cultural distance and ethnic civil conflict
Guarnieri, Eleonora - 2023
Ethnically diverse countries are more prone to conflict, but why do some groups engage in conflict while others do not? I show that civil conflict is explained by ethnic groups' cultural distance to the central government: an increase in cultural distance, proxied by linguistic distance,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014332085
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Ethnic diversity and well-being
Akay, Alpaslan; Constant, Amelie; Giulietti, Corrado; … - 2016
This paper investigates how ethnic diversity, measured by the immigrants' countries of origin, influences the well-being of the host country. Using panel data from Germany for the period 1998 to 2012, we find a positive effect of ethnic diversity on the well-being of German citizens. To...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452237
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Genetic Distance and International Migrant Selection
Krieger, Tim - 2015
This paper looks at the effect of the relatedness of two countries, measured by their genetic distance, on educational migrant selection. We analyze bilateral country-level education-specific migration stocks from 85 sending countries to the 15 main destination countries in 2000 and show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013018280