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The Tower of Babel in the Classroom: Immigrants and Natives in Italian Schools
Ballatore, Rosario Maria; Fort, Margherita; Ichino, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
confounded by endogenous class size adjustments implemented by principals when confronted with immigrant and native inflows. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011145440
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Culture: Persistence and Evolution
Giavazzi, Francesco; Petkov, Ivan; Schiantarelli, Fabio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
This paper presents evidence on the speed of evolution (or lack thereof) of a wide range of values and beliefs of different generations of European immigrants to the US. The main result is that persistence differs greatly across cultural attitudes. Some, for instance deep personal religious...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083563
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Bridges or Buffers? Motives behind Immigrants’ Religiosity - A Comparative Study of Europe and the United States
García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
Abstract: 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 –...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084585
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Immigration, Trade, and Austrian Unemployment
Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; Zweimüller, Josef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996
In this paper we look at the effects of immigration and trade with Eastern Europe on unemployment in Austria. Using … immigration effect on unemployment duration. Within almost all subgroups there is a significant increase in the length of … unemployment spells as a result of increased immigration. Increased trade with Central and East European Countries (CEECs) seems to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792204
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Racial and Economic Factors in Attitudes to Immigration
Dustmann, Christian; Preston, Ian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
considered to be competitors for these resources. The question of how attitudes of majority populations towards immigration are … immigration from different minority groups, as well as attitudes towards related concerns, like job security and benefit … expenditures. We specify and estimate a multiple factor model. The correlation between answers to questions on immigration and on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005656173
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The Threat Effect of Participation in Active Labor Market Programs on Job Search Behavior of Migrants in Germany
Bergemann, Annette; Caliendo, Marco; den Berg, Gerard J van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
migrants with a Turkish origin or Central and Eastern European (including Russian) background. Job search theory is used to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008861905
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Structural Empirical Evaluation of Job Search Monitoring
den Berg, Gerard J van; van der Klaauw, Bas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
We structurally estimate a novel job search model with endogenous job search effort, job quality dispersion, and effort monitoring, taking into account that monitoring effects may be mitigated by on-the-job search and search channel substitution. The data are from a randomized experiment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084149
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Youth Unemployment and Government Policy
Orszag, Mike; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997
This paper discusses how employment vouchers should depend on age in a simple overlapping generations model in which workers are either young or old. We find that young workers should receive higher vouchers as displacement of the old rises and as the deadweight loss from providing vouchers to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792290
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Long-Term Unemployment in Britain in the 1930s
Crafts, Nicholas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1985
Long-term unemployment was regarded by contemporaries in the 1930's as a major problem but analysis of it has been neglected in modern economists' research. This paper presents data on durations of unemployment and a measure of the welfare costs associated with long-term unemployment. It is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005281290
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Euro Area Government Bonds—Integration and Fragmentation During the Sovereign Debt Crisis
Ehrmann, Michael; Fratzscher, Marcel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
The paper analyzes the integration of euro area sovereign bond markets during the European sovereign debt crisis. It …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276387