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This article shows that higher ethnolinguistic diversity is associated with a greater risk of social tensions and conflict, which, in turn, is a dispersion force lowering urbanization and the incentives to move to big ci...Read more...
Ulrich J. Eberle, J. Vernon Henderson, Dominic Rohner and Kurt Schmidheiny
14 July 2020
The geographic concentration of economic activity occurs because transport costs for goods, people and ideas give individuals and organisations incentives to locate close to each other. Historically, all of these costs h...Read more...
Y Ioannides, Henry G. Overman, Esteban Rossi-Hansberg and Kurt Schmidheiny
July 2007