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The value of language skills : a common language facilitates communication and economic efficiency, but linguistic diversity has economic and cultural value too

Grenier, Gilles - 2015

In today's globalized world, people are increasingly mobile and often need to communicate across different languages …

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Skill-based immigration, economic integration, and economic performance : benefiting from highly skilled immigrants requires a complementary mix of immigrant selection and economic...

Aydemir, Abdurrahman - 2014

highlights a need for complementary immigration and integration policies. …

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Chapter 4. The Human Capital (Schooling) of Immigrants in America

Smith, James P. - In: Handbook of the economics of international migration : …, (pp. 183-210). 2015

This chapter deals with several salient issues about immigrants to the US and their education. These issues include a comparison of the schooling accomplishments of immigrants and the native-born that emphasizes the considerable diversity in the schooling accomplishments among different...

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Language and culture as drivers of migration : linguistic and cultural barriers affect international migration flows

Adserà, Alícia - 2015

As migration flows to developed countries have increased in recent decades, so have the number of countries from which migrants arrive. Thus, it is increasingly important to consider what role differences in culture and language play in migration decisions. Recent work shows that culture and...

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Bridges or buffers? : motives behind immigrants’ religiosity

Garcia-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-23

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...

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Looking Backward : Long-Term Religious Service Attendance in 66 Countries

Barro, Robert J.; Dewitte, Edgard; Iannaccone, Laurence R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

The attendance rate at religious services is an important variable for the sociology and economics of religion, but …

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Migration and integration in a post-pandemic world : socioeconomic opportunities and challenges

Lerpold, Lin (ed.); Sjöberg, Örjan (ed.); … - 2023

Introduction to Migration and Integration in a Post-pandemic World -- The Shape of Things to Come: International … Vaccine Hesitancy among Somali Immigrants in Stockholm -- Conclusion to Migration and Integration in a Post-pandemic World. …As the world emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic, this book explores current migration and integration challenges …

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Can immigrants ever earn as much as native workers? : immigrants initially earn less than natives; the wage gap falls over time, but for many immigrant groups it never closes

Anderson, Kathryn H. - 2015

Immigrants contribute to the economic development of the host country, but they earn less at entry and it takes many years for them to achieve parity of income. For some immigrant groups, the wage gap never closes. There is a wide variation across countries in the entry wage gap and the speed of...

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Migration and Integration of Immigrants in Denmark

Roseveare, Deborah - 2004

Immigration could offer one way for Denmark to expand its labour supply, thereby lowering the dependency ratio, at … main changes in policies on immigration in recent years ... …

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Chapter 24. Immigration in Europe : Trends, Policies, and Empirical Evidence

de la Rica, Sara; Glitz, Albrecht; Ortega, Francesc - In: Handbook of the economics of international migration : …, (pp. 1303-1362). 2015

This chapter summarizes the main trends, policies, and empirical evidence regarding immigration in Europe. We start by … providing descriptive evidence on long-term immigration trends and current characteristics of the immigrant populations in … the second part of the chapter, we provide a survey of the large and growing literature on the recent European immigration …

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