Urban Immigrant Diversity and Inclusive Institutions

Kemeny, Thomas; Cooke, Abigail M.

doi:10.1080/00130095.2017.1300056

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“…And yet, institutions have a separate effect: they do not merely reflect "objective" interests. Kemeny and Cooke (2017) demonstrate that immigrant diversity has economic effects that are shaped by whether local institutions are more or less inclusive. In other words, the sharp inter-regional split we observe around the value of multiculturalism is a combined effect of labor market dynamics (competitive versus complementary), institutionalized narratives, and institutionalized feedbacks on the way labor markets actually function.…”

Section: Political and Policy Polarizationmentioning

confidence: 97%

Separate Worlds? Explaining the current wave of regional economic polarization

Storper

2018

Journal of Economic Geography

132

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Interregional and inter-metropolitan economic divergence is greater in many western developed countries than it has been in many decades. Divergence manifests itself in many ways, including per capita income, labor force participation, and the spatial the distribution of skills and returns to education. At the same time, geographical polarization of political preferences and electoral choices has increased, with gains in populism and nationalism in some regions, and broadening of socially liberal, pro-trade, and multicultural attitudes in other regions. The task of explaining these developments poses challenges to economic geography and regional and urban economics. These fields have already developed some of the building blocks of an account, but a number of important gaps persist. This article is devoted to identifying priorities for regional science and urban economics, the new economic geography, and proper economic geography to tackle the key mechanisms behind divergence as well as to integrate them in a common overall framework. JEL: R10, R21, R23, O18, J61 "Regional inequality is proving too politically dangerous to ignore"-The Economist,

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Section: Political and Policy Polarizationmentioning

confidence: 97%

Separate Worlds? Explaining the current wave of regional economic polarization

Storper

2018

Journal of Economic Geography

132

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“…The gateway conditions to such participation are improving the quality of life and well-being of all, which is the minimum for ensuring that agents have the capabilities and freedom to achieve this. Diversity of capable agents and territories is the most powerful tool for success in the open probability game of innovation and economic creativity (Kemeny and Cooke, 2017;Feldman and Storper, 2018). In the light of this, policymakers cannot afford to wait for perfect predictability and an error-free world.…”

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confidence: 99%

Regional inequality in Europe: evidence, theory and policy implications

Iammarino

Rodríguez‐Pose

Storper

2018

Journal of Economic Geography

565

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Regional economic divergence has become a threat to economic progress, social cohesion and political stability in Europe. Market processes and policies that are supposed to spread prosperity and opportunity are no longer sufficiently effective. The evidence points to the existence of several different modes of regional economic performance in Europe, responding to different development challenges and opportunities. Both mainstream and heterodox theories have gaps in their ability to explain the existence of these different regional trajectories and the weakness of the convergence processes among them. Therefore, a different approach is required, one that strengthens Europe's strongest regions but develops new approaches to promote opportunity in industrial declining and less-developed regions. There is ample new theory and evidence to support such an approach, which we have labelled 'place-sensitive distributed development policy'.

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“…Elias and Paradies (), using individual‐level data for Australia find that (lagged) ethnic heterogeneity is positively associated with weekly earnings. Kemeny and Cooke () argue that the positive spillovers of diversity are more pronounced in U.S. states with higher levels of inclusive institutions. More recently, Docquier, Turati, Valette, and Vasilakis (), by analyzing data on U.S. states over the period 1960–2010, find that only high‐skilled birthplace diversity contributes positively to economic growth.…”

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Impact of cultural diversity on local labor markets. Evidence from Greece's “age of mass migration”

Roupakias

Dimou

2019

The Manchester School

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This paper analyzes how the interaction of ethnicities and cultures impacts on productivity and employment on Greek local labor markets, within the 20‐year interval between 1991 and 2011. We compute two alternative proxies for cultural diversity, namely the fractionalization and the polarization index, using information on 118 countries of origin. We also account for the potential endogenous allocation of individuals across local labor markets by employing a “shift‐share” instrument, exploiting the fact that networks play an important role in the settlement patterns of recent migrants. Our identification strategy indicates that the contribution of diversity in terms of birthplace is positive, at least up to a certain point. This finding appears to be robust and not driven by the inclusion of further controls, outliers, spatial autocorrelation, and selection on unobservables. Interestingly, we find that ethnic heterogeneity helps employment and productivity by promoting sectoral diversity.

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Urban Immigrant Diversity and Inclusive Institutions

Cited by 32 publications

References 67 publications

Separate Worlds? Explaining the current wave of regional economic polarization

Separate Worlds? Explaining the current wave of regional economic polarization

Regional inequality in Europe: evidence, theory and policy implications

Impact of cultural diversity on local labor markets. Evidence from Greece's “age of mass migration”

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