The Economics of Immigration 2nd Edition by Cynthia Bansak

Exercise 9

Web exercise: Using UN data on the international migrant stock available at https://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/migration/data/estimates2/estimates19.asp, calculate the HHI of immigrants across the six major geographic regions (Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, Northern America and Oceania) in 2000, 2010, and the most recent year of data available. How has the concentration changed over time?