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Title: Poverty Traps, Distance and Diversity: The Migration Connection

Author(s): Jeffrey G Williamson

Publication Date: October 2006

Keyword(s): emigrant life cycle, ethnic diversity and migration

Programme Area(s): International Trade and Regional Economics

Abstract: Within-country ethnic diversity in high-wage immigrant nations is driven by long distance migration. This paper documents the migration-diversity connection for the first global century before 1914 and the second global century after 1950. It distinguishes between ethnic diversity among the foreign-born, between the foreign-born and nativeborn and for total populations using country-of-birth data. It exploits the polarization index made popular in the recent diversity-growth debate and exploits an emigration life cycle model to predict the connection. It also shows how policy matters.

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Williamson, J. 2006. 'Poverty Traps, Distance and Diversity: The Migration Connection'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=5891