DESMET, Klaus; ORTUNO-ORTIN, Ignacio; WEBER, Shlomo - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2005
This paper investigates the effect of ethnolinguistic conflict on redistribution. The analysis focuses on the conflict arising between "peripheral" minority groups and a dominant "center". We propose an index of linguistic conflict that (i) encompasses both diversity and polarization, and (ii)...