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Determinanten der Nachhaltigkeit : Armut als Einflussgröße des individuellen Nachhaltigkeitsverhaltens

Leßmann, Sophia - 2016

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Immigrant Assimilation And Welfare Participation: Do Immigrants Assimilate Into Or Out Of Welfare?

Hansen, Jörgen; Löfström, Magnus - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

This paper analyses differences in welfare utilization between immigrants and natives in Sweden using a large panel data set, LINDA, for the years 1990 to 1996. Both welfare expenditures and immigration increased substantially in Sweden in the 1990's. We find that immigrants use welfare to a...

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First- and Second-Generation Migrants in Germany - What Do We Know and What Do People Think

Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

This Paper provides a snapshot of the stock of immigrants in Germany using the 1995 wave of the Mikrozensus, with a particular emphasis on distinguishing first- and second-generation migrants. On the basis of this portrait, we draw attention to the empirically most relevant groups of immigrants...

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Settlement Policies and the Economic Success of Immigrants

Åslund, Olof; Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

one of income support. …

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Do Immigrants Displace Native Workers? The Austrian Experience

Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; Zweimüller, Josef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

This paper studies the effect of increased immigration in Austria on the risk to natives of becoming unemployed. Austria experienced a dramatic rise in the share of alien workers as a result of the breakdown of the former communist regimes (especially that of the former Yugoslavia). We...

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Immigrant Selection in The OECD

Belot, Michèle; Hatton, Timothy J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

The selection of immigrants by skill and education is a central issue in the analysis of immigration. Since highly educated immigrants tend to be more successful in host country labour markets and less of a fiscal cost it is important to know what determines the skill-selectivity of immigration....

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Racial and Economic Factors in Attitudes to Immigration

Dustmann, Christian; Preston, Ian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

Hostility towards minorities may sometimes have economic rather than racial motives. Labour market fears, or concerns about the welfare system, are often believed to manifest themselves in hostile attitudes towards population groups that are considered to be competitors for these resources. The...

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The Impact of Immigration on the Educational Attainment of Natives

Hunt, Jennifer - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

Using a state panel based on census data from 1940-2010, I examine the impact of immigration on the high school completion of natives in the United States. Immigrant children could compete for schooling resources with native children, lowering the return to native education and discouraging...

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Ethnic Enclaves and the Economic Success of Immigrants - Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Åslund, Olof; Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

Recent immigrants tend to locate in ethnic ‘enclaves’ within metropolitan areas. The economic consequence of living in such enclaves is still an unresolved issue. We use an immigrant policy initiative in Sweden, when government authorities distributed refugee immigrants across locales in a...

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Controversies about the Rise in American Inequality: A Survey

Dew-Becker, Ian; Gordon, Robert J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

: changes in labor’s share of income; inequality at the bottom of the income distribution, including labor mobility; skill … in the income distribution, particularly at the top. We conclude that changes in labor’s share play no role in rising … inequality of labor income; by one measure labor’s income share was almost the same in 2007 as in 1950. Within the bottom 90 …

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