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Track IV - The Economics of Diversity
Expert
Laura Renner

Laura Renner is a PhD Candidate at the University of Freiburg where she is conducting research on skilled migration and migration barriers at the Wilfried Guth Endowed Chair of Constitutional Political Economy and Competition Policy. She has worked at the Centre for European Economic Research, Mannhei and research visits have led her to the ifo Institute, Munich, and Brigham Young University, Utah. She also is an affiliate at the WomanStats Project where she is doing research on polygyny and inheritance institutions.

Organizers
Matthias Haslberger

Mass mobility, migration and increasing diversity fundamentally characterize our globalizing world. As they reshape our societies, they confer substantial benefits but also entail costs. In order to identify these costs and benefits, we will adopt a global perspective, looking at migrants and the receiving and sending countries affected by their decisions.

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We will first look at the practical and ethical implications of e.g. colonial history, brain drain, and demographic pressures, for governing mobility. A further goal of the track is to discuss the mechanisms through which greater or lower diversity may affect the identities of individuals in a society, for example through its interaction with trust and social capital. Based on this theoretical framework, we will set out to develop answers to the normative questions such as how the competing interests of different societies and individuals should be weighted and how we can reconcile them in a global order.

Dominik Leusder
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