Linguistic Diversity and Redistribution

Desmet, Klaus; Weber, Shlomo; Ortuño‐Ortín, Ignacio

doi:10.1162/jeea.2009.7.6.1291

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“…Appendix A: Additional information on the surveys Desmet, Weber, and Ortuño-Ortín (2009) on the effects of linguistic diversity on redistribution and the null findings for ethnic diversity. 10 Census sections in Spain can be either full municipalities -when it is a small locality -or subdivisions within municipalities.…”

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Will We All Hunker Down? The Impact of Immigration and Diversity on Local Communities in Spain

Morales

Echazarra

2013

Journal of Elections, Public Opinion & Parties

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In this article, we contribute to this scholarship with an analysis of the effect of immigrant-related diversity on generalized and localized or community trust. As we will illustrate, Spain is a very interesting case study for testing the main theoretical propositions that relate diversity to decreasing levels of trust, and especially for testing whether these effects are visible in the short-term, as has been suggested by Putnam. In just a decade, the immigrant population multiplied by five, and many local communities became ethnically diverse. The rapidity and magnitude of this social change leads us to expect visible effects.Our contribution is twofold. Firstly, by analysing the effect of immigrationrelated diversity at the smallest level of aggregation possible in Spain -the census section level -we are able to adequately test the propositions that relate greater 3 ethnic diversity to residents' social trust. Secondly, we overcome the limitations intrinsic to the crude measurement of diversity of the Herfindahl index with a systematic consideration of multiple alternative indicators of immigration-related diversity that examine the effects of the national origin, linguistic, and racial diversity that has changed the social face of Spanish local communities throughout the country.With this thorough examination of diversity in an interesting and little-known case, we find no effect of diversity on generalized trust, and a negative impact on community trust. We also find that considering multiple dimensions of immigrationrelated diversity is a worthwhile pursuit, as our results suggest that certain types of immigrants engender a more negative reaction than others.The article proceeds as follows. In the next section we summarize the key issues discussed in the scholarly literature around this topic and we outline the empirical expectations that are derived from it. This is followed by a brief description of the Spanish case and of its relevance for the research questions addressed. The third section presents the data, variables and methods used. After that, we present the empirical results, and we conclude with a discussion of the main findings and implications.

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Will We All Hunker Down? The Impact of Immigration and Diversity on Local Communities in Spain

Morales

Echazarra

2013

Journal of Elections, Public Opinion & Parties

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“…In addition, Montalvo and Reynal-Querol (2005) and Esteban, Mayoral and Ray (2012) find that ethnolinguistic polarization is associated with civil conflict. Desmet, Ortuño-Ortín and Weber (2009) show that once distances between languages are accounted for, linguistic diversity has a significant negative effect on redistribution. Desmet, Ortuño-Ortín and Wacziarg (2012) find that deep linguistic distances are good predictors of civil conflict and redistribution, while even finer distinctions between languages, such as those among different dialects, matter for economic growth and public goods provision.…”

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What is European Integration Really About? A Political Guide for Economists

Spolaore¹

2013

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Europe's monetary union is part of a broader process of integration that started in the aftermath of World War II. In this "political guide for economists" we look at the creation of the euro within the bigger picture of European integration. How and why were European institutions established? What are the goals and determinants of European Integration? What is European integration really about? We address these questions from a political-economy perspective, building on ideas and results from the economic literature on the formation of states and political unions. Specifically, we look at the motivations, assumptions, and limitations of the European strategy, initiated by Jean Monnet and his collaborators, of partially integrating policy functions in a few areas, with the expectation that more integration will follow in other areas, in a sort of chain reaction towards an "ever-closer union." The euro with its current problems is a child of that strategy and its limits.

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“…If, instead, alienation is rooted in deep cleavages going back thousands of years, then the number of shared branches must be very low for tension to arise. We therefore follow Fearon (2003) and Desmet et al (2009) and measure τ lk as a nonlinear negative function of b lk , the number of branches shared by languages l and k. Hence,…”

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Peripheral diversity: transfers versus public goods

Ortuño‐Ortín

Weber

2017

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This paper advances the hypothesis that in societies that suffer from ethnolinguistic center-periphery tension it is harder to agree on public goods than on transfers. After micro-founding a new peripheral diversity index, it puts forth a simple theory in which the cost of public goods increases with peripheral ethnolinguistic diversity and tax compliance decreases with overall ethnolinguistic diversity. It then empirically explores the relation between public goods provision, transfers, peripheral diversity and overall diversity. Consistent with the theory, we find that higher levels of peripheral diversity are associated with less provision of public goods, but more transfers, whereas higher levels of overall diversity have a negative association with We thank two anonymous referees for thoughtful comments. I.

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Linguistic Diversity and Redistribution

Cited by 231 publications

References 39 publications

Will We All Hunker Down? The Impact of Immigration and Diversity on Local Communities in Spain

Will We All Hunker Down? The Impact of Immigration and Diversity on Local Communities in Spain

What is European Integration Really About? A Political Guide for Economists

Peripheral diversity: transfers versus public goods

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