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Naturalization and Employment of Immigrants in France (1968-1999)

Fougère, Denis; Safi, Mirna - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

Our study examines the empirical link between the naturalization of immigrants and their subsequent employment status in France from 1968 to 1999. For that purpose, we use longitudinal data coming from a panel dataset which follows almost 1% of the French population from 1968 to 1999 through...

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Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance and Self-Employment Proclivity: A Bi-National Study of Immigrants

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labor force, and the potential policy responses. This paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success....

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Naturalization Proclivities, Ethnicity and Integration

Constant, Amelie; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

differentiating between actual and planned citizenship. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel, we measure the impact that integration … characteristics. A robust finding is that German citizenship is very valuable to female immigrants and the generally better educated … on citizenship acquisition. While a longer residence in Germany has a negative influence on actual or future …

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Citizenship and Employment – comparing two cool countries

Bevelander, Pieter; Pendakur, Ravi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Over the last decades, both Canada and Sweden have liberalized citizenship regulations for permanent residents. During … immigrants arriving from non-western countries. The aim of this paper is to explore the link between citizenship and employment …. We use instrumental variable regression to examine the 'clean' impact of citizenship acquisition and the size of the co …

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Human Development in Africa: A Long-run Perspective

Prados de la Escosura, Leandro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Long-run trends in Africa’s well-being are provided on the basis of a new index of human development, alternative to the UNDP’s HDI. A sustained improvement in African human development is found that falls, nonetheless, short of those experienced in other developing regions. Within Africa,...

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Improving Human Development: A Long-run View

Prados de la Escosura, Leandro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

The pessimistic flavour of the Human Development Reports appears to be in contradiction with their own numbers as developing countries fare comparatively better in human development than in per capita GDP terms. This paper attempts to bridge this gap by providing a new, ‘improved’ human...

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World Human Development: 1870-2007

Prados de la Escosura, Leandro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

How has wellbeing evolved over time and across regions? How does the West compare to the Rest? What explains their differences? These questions are addressed using an historical index of human development. A sustained improvement in wellbeing has taken place since 1870. The absolute gap between...

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Live aid revisited: long-term impacts of the 1984 Ethiopian famine on children

Dercon, Stefan; Porter, Catherine - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

In 1984, the world was shocked at the scale of a famine in Ethiopia that caused over half a million deaths, making it one of the worst in recent history. The mortality impacts are clearly signicant. But what of the survivors? This paper provides the first estimates the long-term impact of the...

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Trust, Growth and Well-Being: New Evidence and Policy Implications

Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

This survey reviews the recent research on trust, institutions and economic development. It discusses the various measures of trust and documents the substantial heterogeneity of trust across space and time. The conceptual mechanisms that explain the influence of trust on economic performance...

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On the Welfare State Performance in the European Union

Coelli, Tim; Lefebvre, Mathieu; Perelman, Sergio; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

In this paper we use data on five social inclusion indicators (poverty, inequality, unemployment, education and health) to assess and compare the performance of 27 European welfare states (EU27) in 2008. Aggregate measures of performance are obtained using index number methods similar to those...

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