title: Immigration, assimilation and growth.
abstract: "This paper analyzes the welfare effects of immigration and its subsequent effect on ethnic diversity in a model featuring human capital spillovers which depend on the degree of ethnic heterogeneity, variation rates of time preference across individuals and endogenous levels of immigration and assimilation. In the model, an increase in ethnic diversity reduces the spillovers effect for the majority.  Nonetheless, immigration can be welfare improving for the majority ethnic group even if it increases the degree of diversity as long as it raises the average human capital level and/or growth rate by increasing the proportion of people with low rates of time preference."
authors.forename: J T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Durkin
mesh_terms: D000069:Acculturation; D003469:Culture; D003710:Demography; D004467:Economics; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005006:Ethnicity; D006280:Health Workforce; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011153:Population; D011154:Population Characteristics; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012106:Research; D012922:Social Change; D012946:Social Welfare; D014171:Transients and Migrants
keywords: Acculturation; Cultural Background; Demographic Factors; Economic Development; Economic Factors; Ethnic Groups; Human Capital; Human Resources; Immigrants; Migrants; Migration; Models, Theoretical; Population; Population Characteristics; Population Dynamics; Research Methodology; Social Change; Social Welfare; World