Very little is understood about how immigrants affect the happiness, or subjective well-being of natives. We use the European Social Survey to analyze the effects of aggregate immigration flows on the subjective well-being of native-born populations in a panel of 26 countries between 2002 and...

This study reviews and evaluates the motives and incentives behind immigrants’ religiosity, focusing on the two sides of the Atlantic – Europe and the United States. The contribution of the study is mainly empirical, trying to identify indicators for the type of incentive – whether...

Purpose This paper discusses an original theory of information exclusion and information inclusion, which explains how information interactions can be structured in ways that either exclude or include people seeking asylum. Design/methodology/approach This theory was developed through an...

Con los datos suministrados por la Encuesta de Condiciones de Vida para cada uno de los años del periodo 2004-2009, se realiza un estudio de la vulnerabilidad a la exclusión social de la población adulta residente en España. Utilizando las técnicas del análisis factorial se determinan los...

En el presente artículo, se pasa revista a la evolución y las perspectivas futuras del análisis de la pobreza, con especial énfasis en los estudios llevados a cabo en el caso español. Así, en primer lugar, tras centrar el concepto de pobreza, se presenta el análisis unidimensional basado...

We examine two impacts of international emigration on the evolution of the institutions in the origin countries. The first impact concerns the influence of emigration per se (i.e. people who left the country can voice more or less from abroad). The second impact relates to the transfer of the...

This chapter provides a comprehensive expository survey and synthesis of the theoretical determinants of migration. Early work beginning with Adam Smith, running through the pioneering research of Larry Sjaastad in the 1960s, and continuing through the end of the twentieth century established...