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Publisher : Cambria Press
ISBN 13 : 1621969355
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (219 download)
Download or read book Economic Benefits of Ethnolinguistic Diversity written by and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Agnieszka Aleksy-Szucsich
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781624991196
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Economic Benefits of Ethnolinguistic Diversity written by Agnieszka Aleksy-Szucsich and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prevailing interpretation in international political economy following the work of such analysts as Easterly and Alesina, is that ethnic and linguistic diversity is harmful to economic development because it is a source of division and even destructive political conflict. This study takes a very different view. It argues that ethnic and linguistic diversity is a source of creativity and productivity in society and therefore is an indispensable component of economic development. Based on an examination of advanced-industrial (OECD) countries, this is the first study to show at the macro-level across countries that ethnic and linguistic diversity is a positive source of creativity for society. Extensive econometric analysis backs up the empirical findings of the study. This work promises to steer international political economy in a new direction. It will highlight the positive contributions to entrepreneurship, technological innovation, and economic growth in the modern society of the Information Age. An important qualification of the findings is that the study shows how important government support is for research and development. Without this support much of the creativity in society in terms of skill and manpower gets lost or wasted. This book is original and groundbreaking. It adds a new dimension to the fields of international political economy and international political finance.
Author : Agnieszka Aleksy-Szucsich
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (228 download)
Download or read book Ethnolinguistic Diversity as a Potential Economic Benefit for Countries written by Agnieszka Aleksy-Szucsich and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christian Brandes
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3668756392
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (687 download)
Download or read book The Effects of Diversity on Economic and Political Stability written by Christian Brandes and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2018-07-23 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master's Thesis from the year 2017 in the subject Economics - Other, grade: 1,7, http://www.uni-jena.de/, language: English, abstract: Many developing countries do not only suffer from weak institutions, poor economic performance and corruption, but also from separatist movements and violent civil conflicts. The question arises why some countries could achieve economic growth and development, while others never experienced considerable economic development and are trapped in a vicious circle of re-occurring violent conflicts and economic deterioration. Since developing countries tend to be more diverse in terms of ethnicity, language and religion and many civil conflicts appear to have an ethnic or religious component, diversity is regarded as a main cause of economic and political instability. Furthermore, many scholars consider higher levels of diversity in the least developed countries to be the crucial factor that leads to inefficient policy decisions and impedes growth and development. This master thesis addresses the question how diversity affects economic and political stability and elaborates appropriate parameters which are further used in a composite indicator (CI) to quantify a country’s stability, respectively instability. The thesis is structured as follows: After a review of the literature on the relations between diversity and economic development and civil conflicts in chapter two, the historic and environmental conditions under which different ethnic and linguistic groups emerged are described. Further, the effects of external shocks which shaped ethnic development in the special case of Africa are assessed. Chapter four introduces the most common measurements of ethnic, linguistic and religious diversity and describes the differences between fractionalisation and polarisation. Several studies describing the effects of different aspects of diversity on various economic and political outcomes are discussed. This is followed by chapter five which is addressing the causes of instability and civil conflict. It is examined how conflict, as the major outcome of instability, is related to and can be driven by diversity and which roles economic and institutional aspects play in explaining civil conflicts. In the subsequent part, several indicators which capture different aspects of stability are critically assessed. Further, parameters and their respective weights towards a new composite indicator of instability are elaborated. Subsequently, chapter seven concludes.
Author : Steven Vertovec
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1135049424
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Superdiversity written by Steven Vertovec and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Superdiversity explores processes of diversification and the complex, emergent social configurations that now supersede prior forms of diversity in societies around the world. Migration plays a key role in these processes, bringing changes not just in social, cultural, religious, and linguistic phenomena, but also in the ways that these phenomena combine with others like gender, age, and legal status. The concept of superdiversity has been adopted by scholars across the social sciences in order to address a variety of forms, modes, and outcomes of diversification. Central to this field is the relationship between social categorization and social organization, including stratification and inequality. Increasingly complex categories of social “difference” have significant impacts across scales, from entire societies to individual identities. While diversification is often met with simplifying stereotypes, threat narratives, and expressions of antagonism, superdiversity encourages a perspective on difference as comprising multiple social processes, flexible collective meanings, and overlapping personal and group identities. A superdiversity approach encourages the re-evaluation and recognition of social categories as multidimensional, unfixed, and porous as opposed to views based on hardened, one-dimensional thinking about groups. Diversification and increasing social complexity are bound to continue, if not intensify, in light of climate change. This will have profound impacts on the nature of global migration, social relations, and inequalities. Superdiversity presents a convincing case for recognizing new social formations created by changing migration patterns and calls for a re-thinking of public policy and social scientific approaches to social difference. This introduction to the multidisciplinary concept of superdiversity will be of considerable interest to students and researchers in a range of fields in the humanities and social sciences. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Author : Jhumur Sengupta
Publisher : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9783844398823
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (988 download)
Download or read book Impact of Ethnic Diversity on Socio Economic Performance written by Jhumur Sengupta and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an in-depth coverage of the effect of ethnic diversity on socio economic outcomes. Economic development scholars today are increasingly sensitive to the role of ethnicity and its influence on social conflict which continues to remain a strong impediment to economic development.Practical evidence shows that members of ethnically discriminated groups are far from enjoying equal opportunities with members of dominant groups. Hence, the discussion on ethnicity and its effect is becoming more and more important and relevant in today s world. The author with her expertise and experience in the field of Political Economy and Econometrics gives a masterly presentation of empirical findings on the effect of ethnicity on various aspects related society and economics. This book presents an empirical investigation on the role of ethnicity along caste and religion in influencing local government spending, productivity of social capital and human capital outcome. This book will be extremely useful for Students of Economics and PhD scholars who are doing empirical research in Political Economy and all those who have an abiding interest in Political Economy.
Author : Sangick Jeon
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Essays on the Costs and Benefits of Ethnic Diversity written by Sangick Jeon and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is widely believed amongst scholars, policy-makers, and practitioners that ethnic and cultural mixing can threaten social prosperity. When communities and societies are comprised of individuals from different ethnic backgrounds and cultural beliefs, they tend to fractionalize and fight along those differences, in the worst cases triggering horrific forms of human oppression and violence. However, there is growing evidence in the social and behavioral sciences that diversity, because it is generally associated with greater variety of useful skills and insights, improves economic productivity and performance at intellective tasks like problem-solving, decision-making, and prediction -- skills that are critical for building smart, prosperous, and robust societies. The tradeoffs imposed by diversity raise a number of questions of increasing practical importance in today's world of globalization and cultural integration. If diversity generates both costs and benefits, what explains when one of the two opposing forces dominate? What is the net impact of diversity on the rate of social, political, and economic progress? What kinds of public policies and interventions can enable multiethnic groups and societies to minimize the costs of diversity while simultaneously realizing its benefits? This dissertation develops answers to these questions in the form of three analytical essays, drawing on insights and research methodologies from a number of disciplines, including political science, economics, social psychology, and organizational behavior. Altogether the essays provide a theoretical and empirical foundation for adjudicating between competing theories about diversity's tradeoffs and strategies for managing them.
Author : Paul de Beer
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443891908
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Ethnic Diversity and Solidarity written by Paul de Beer and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-11 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethnic diversity and solidarity are often thought to be at odds with each other. In an increasingly diverse society, individuals find it more difficult to identify with other citizens and, therefore, are less willing to show solidarity. Empirical tests of the relationship between diversity and solidarity are, however, inconclusive. This book tests the hypothesis that diversity undermines solidarity in various ways. It discusses the meaning of social solidarity and the different motives that people can have to act solidary, and it examines the relationship between ethnic diversity and solidarity at the national, regional and local levels. These empirical tests use multiple methods, such as an international survey, a vignette study among the Dutch population, and a field experiment involving visitors to a popular market in Amsterdam. The role of the mass media is examined by studying the images of different ethnic groups that are presented in some popular newspapers, TV programmes and a news provider on the Internet. The collection concludes that, although ethnicity is certainly an important factor in understanding patterns of solidarity, there is not a simple linear relationship between ethnic diversity and solidarity. Even though ethnic difference in itself may be a source of discrimination, one cannot conclude from this that increasing ethnic diversity will necessarily result in less solidarity.
Author : Philippe Aghion
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262553104
Total Pages : 519 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)
Download or read book The Economics of Growth written by Philippe Aghion and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2024-09-17 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, rigorous, and up-to-date introduction to growth economics that presents all the major growth paradigms and shows how they can be used to analyze the growth process and growth policy design. This comprehensive introduction to economic growth presents the main facts and puzzles about growth, proposes simple methods and models needed to explain these facts, acquaints the reader with the most recent theoretical and empirical developments, and provides tools with which to analyze policy design. The treatment of growth theory is fully accessible to students with a background no more advanced than elementary calculus and probability theory; the reader need not master all the subtleties of dynamic programming and stochastic processes to learn what is essential about such issues as cross-country convergence, the effects of financial development on growth, and the consequences of globalization. The book, which grew out of courses taught by the authors at Harvard and Brown universities, can be used both by advanced undergraduate and graduate students, and as a reference for professional economists in government or international financial organizations. The Economics of Growth first presents the main growth paradigms: the neoclassical model, the AK model, Romer's product variety model, and the Schumpeterian model. The text then builds on the main paradigms to shed light on the dynamic process of growth and development, discussing such topics as club convergence, directed technical change, the transition from Malthusian stagnation to sustained growth, general purpose technologies, and the recent debate over institutions versus human capital as the primary factor in cross-country income differences. Finally, the book focuses on growth policies—analyzing the effects of liberalizing market competition and entry, education policy, trade liberalization, environmental and resource constraints, and stabilization policy—and the methodology of growth policy design. All chapters include literature reviews and problem sets. An appendix covers basic concepts of econometrics.
Author : Erkan Gören
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (137 download)
Download or read book How Ethnic Diversity Affects Economic Development written by Erkan Gören and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper investigates the empirical relationship between the two concepts of ethnicity and economic growth. Ethnicity is assumed to affect economic growth through a number of possible transmission channels that are generally included in cross-country growth regressions by proposing an extended econometric system of equations to describe growth and the channel variables. The system incorporates new channel variables for the potential indirect effects of ethnicity that are important in the process of economic development. The results, based on a sample of 95 countries for the period 1960-1999, suggest that the concept of ethnic fractionalization is a strong predictive measure for the direct effect of ethnicity on growth, whereas the concept of ethnic polarization has non-negligible indirect economic effects through the specified channel variables.
Author : Martin Kahanec
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857930613
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (579 download)
Download or read book Ethnic Diversity in European Labor Markets written by Martin Kahanec and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly accessible book illustrates how policy makers can address and nurture the effects of growing ethnic diversity in European labor markets. The contributors present an unprecedented large-scale study on ethnic diversity in European labor markets via a combination of hard data analysis with expert evaluation of integration practices and policy options. Key questions explored include: Does ethnic diversity in European labor markets lead to poor socio-economic outcomes for some ethnic groups in the face of fierce competition for jobs and welfare? Can labor immigration and improved integration of all ethnic groups provide a solution to the challenges posed by a shrinking population, an aging workforce, skill shortages and other bottlenecks that constrain the innovative potential of the EU? What can policy makers do to nurture and encourage the benefits of ethnic diversity in the EU?
Author : Hiroyuki Hino
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107025990
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Ethnic Diversity and Economic Instability in Africa written by Hiroyuki Hino and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-19 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A challenge to the conventional idea that ethnic diversity is an important cause of Africa's poor economic performance.
Author : Merlin Schaeffer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131714094X
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Ethnic Diversity and Social Cohesion written by Merlin Schaeffer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the debate within social sciences on the consequences of ethnic diversity for social cohesion and the production of public goods, this book draws on extensive survey data from Germany to engage with questions surrounding the relationship between ethnic diversity and issues such as welfare provision and the erosion of public trust and civic engagement in Europe. It moves away from the question of whether there is in fact a universal correlation between ethnic diversity and social cohesion in order to focus on the reasons for which people's reciprocity and trust might be reduced in more ethnically diverse areas. Drawing attention to the importance of peoples' perceptions of diversity in explaining levels of social cohesion, Ethnic Diversity and Social Cohesion shows how specific types of perceived diversity can help explain the reasons for which ethnic diversity is associated with declines in social cohesion, and the contexts and conditions in which this occurs. The book also outlines potential courses of action, revealing the important roles of residential segregation, children and interethnic partners in overcoming barriers of language, values and cognitive bias. A rigorous, timely study of ethnic diversity and its relation to liberal democracy as a form of deliberative conflict that requires certain levels of trust, shared values and engagement, Ethnic Diversity and Social Cohesion will be of interest to policy makers, sociologists and political scientists working in the fields of race and migration, ethnic diversity and community cohesion.
Author : William Russell Easterly
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Can Institutions Resolve Ethnic Conflict? written by William Russell Easterly and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethnic diversity has a more adverse effect on economic policy and growth when a government's institutions are poor. But poor institutions have an even more adverse effect on growth and policy when ethnic diversity is high.
Author : Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Economic Value of Cultural Diversity written by Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What are the economic consequences to U.S. natives of the growing diversity of American cities? Is their productivity or utility affected by cultural diversity as measured by diversity of countries of birth of U.S. residents? We document in this paper a very robust correlation: US-born citizens living in metropolitan areas where the share of foreign-born increased between 1970 and 1990, experienced a significant increase in their wage and in the rental price of their housing. Such finding is economically significant and survives omitted variable bias and endogeneity bias. As people and firms are mobile across cities in the long run we argue that, in equilibrium, these correlations are consistent only with a net positive effect of cultural diversity on productivity of natives"--NBER website
Download or read book Essays on the Impact of Ethnic and Cultural Diversity on Economic Growth and Development written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jacob S. Siegel
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319617788
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)
Download or read book Demographic and Socioeconomic Basis of Ethnolinguistics written by Jacob S. Siegel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-25 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a description and analysis of sociolinguistics written from a demographer’s perspective. It synthesizes the data on the materials, methods, and issues of this interdisciplinary field, pulling together the scattered materials published in this area into a coherent whole. Drawing on a wide range of sciences in addition to demography and sociolinguistics, including sociology, anthropology, statistics, psychology, neuroscience, and public policy, the book treats theoretical and applied issues, links methods and substantive findings, covers both national and international materials, and provides prehistorical, historical, and contemporary illustrations. The book treats the theoretical issue of how the language we use develops socially on a base of linguistic genetic capacity and the practical issue of how the intervention of the state and public figures may profoundly alter the natural evolution of the language. As such, this book will appeal to a wide range of users, from students to teachers and practitioners of social demography, sociolinguistics, cultural anthropology, and particularly to those social scientists interested in ethnic studies and human migration.
