The populations of many countries in the world are becoming more culturally diverse. This spurs a growing need for an informed debate on the socio-economic implications of cultural diversity. This book offers a solid statistical and econometric perspective on this topical subject by bringing...

In his comprehensive critique of current economic approaches to social capital, Durlauf (2002) recommends a stronger reliance on methods of experimental economics and social psychology. This paper surveys different notions of social capital and submits an alternative conceptual approach based on...

Die vorliegenden Studien sind von der elementaren Einsicht geprägt, daß in der Herstellung einer gerechten und produktiven Ordnung von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft das zentrale und ewig aktuelle Knappheitsproblem der Menschheitsgeschichte zu sehen ist. Was kann die Wissenschaft zur Lösung...

The paper advocates for a new measure of the ethnic identity of migrants, models its determinants and explores its explanatory power for various types of their economic performance. The ethnosizer, a measure of the intensity of a person's ethnic identity, is constructed from information on the...