The Economics of Immigration 2nd Edition by Cynthia Bansak

Exercise 10

Web exercise: Using UN data on the international migrant stock by destination and origin available at https://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/migration/data/estimates2/estimates19.asp, calculate the dissimilarity index of origin countries among immigrants whose destination is the United States versus Germany for the most recent year of data available. Interpret your result. Then calculate the dissimilarity index of destination countries among immigrants whose origin is the United States versus Germany and interpret your result.