TY  - JOUR
AU  - Williamson,Jeffrey G.
TI  - Poverty Traps, Distance, and Diversity: The Migration Connection
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 12549
PY  - 2006
Y2  - October 2006
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w12549
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w12549.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Jeffrey G. Williamson
350 South Hamilton Street #1002
Madison, WI 53703
Tel: 608-441-0023
Fax: 608-204-0783
E-Mail: jwilliam@fas.harvard.edu
AB  - 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 native-born 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.
ER  -