IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/elg/eechap/15128_24.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Diversity and social fractionalization: empirical findings

In: Handbook of Research on Economic and Social Well-Being

Author

Listed:
  • Mariateresa Ciommi

Abstract

The chapter embraces the definition of diversity which refers to the composition of a society, namely to economic, cultural and physical differences among individuals and groups within a society, due to differences in race, language, ethnicity, nationality and gender, to mention a few. This chapter surveys the empirical literature on social fractionalization and diversity, focusing on two aspects. The first main section of the chapter is devoted to the choice of the variable used to identify groups and to the associated datasets. The second main section reviews studies that have investigated the impacts of social fractionalization and diversity on a number of socioeconomic variables, such as growth, development, quality of institutions, rise of conflict and wages.

Suggested Citation

  • Mariateresa Ciommi, 2018. "Diversity and social fractionalization: empirical findings," Chapters, in: Conchita D’Ambrosio (ed.), Handbook of Research on Economic and Social Well-Being, chapter 24, pages 551-572, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:15128_24
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.elgaronline.com/view/9781781953709.00029.xml
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:15128_24. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Darrel McCalla (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.e-elgar.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.