Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/53334 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 72.2009
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
We study how the city system is affected by the possibility for the members of the same cultural diaspora to interact across different cities. In so doing, we propose a simple two- city model with two mobile cultural groups. A localized externality fosters the productivity of individuals when groups interact in a city. At the same time, such interaction dilutes cultural identities and reduces the consumption of culture-specific goods and services. We show that the two groups segregate in different cities when diaspora members find it hard to communicate at distance whereas they integrate in multicultural cities when communication is easy. The model generates situations in which segregation is an equilibrium but is Pareto dominated by integration.
Subjects: 
Cultural Identity
Cosmopolitan City
Productiviy
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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