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Attitudes Towards Immigrants, Other Integration Barriers, and Their Veracity
Constant, Amelie; Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008
integration problems; natives' general negative attitudes are a key factor of their challenging situation; discrimination is …, are persistent and enforce anti-discrimination laws are desirable. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963709
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Post 9-11 U.S. Muslim Labor Market Outcomes
Rabby, Faisal; Rodgers, William M. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
Using a difference-in-differences framework and micro data from the Current Population Survey-Merged Outgoing Rotation Group Files (1999 to 2004), this paper estimates the impact that the 9-11 terrorists attacks had on the U.S. labor market outcomes of individuals with nativity profiles similar...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008519451
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The Impact of 9/11 and the London Bombings on the Employment and Earnings of U.K. Muslims
Rabby, Faisal; Rodgers, William M. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
Using a difference-in-differences framework, this paper estimates the impact that Britain's July 2005 bombings had on the labor market outcomes of UK residents who are either Muslim by religious affiliation or whose nativity profiles are similar to the terrorists. We find a 10 percentage point...
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Ethnic Minorities in the European Union: An Overview
Kahanec, Martin; Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
This paper sheds light on the labor market situation of ethnic minorities in the European Union. Facing a serious measurement challenge and lacking adequate data, we apply several measures of ethnicity and examine various data sources as well as secondary evidence. We find significant gaps...
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A Policy Agenda for Diversity and Minority Integration
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
The social and labor market integration of ethnic minorities in the EU is still a major political, societal and economic challenge. Based on evidence presented in Kahanec and Zimmermann (2011), this policy paper proposes an agenda for diversity and minority integration in the European labor...
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An Expert Stakeholder's View on European Integration Challenges
Constant, Amelie; Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
; the inner nature of discrimination, negative attitudes and internal barriers; as well as the ethnic minorities' desires …
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The Russian-Ukrainian Earnings Divide
Constant, Amelie; Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006
Ethnic differences are often considered to be powerful sources of diverse economic behavior. In this paper, we investigate whether and how ethnicity affects Ukrainian labor market outcomes. Using micro data from the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS) and Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963875
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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. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 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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Are Uzbeks Better off than Kyrgyz?: Measuring and Decomposing Horizontal Inequality
Esenaliev, Damir; Steiner, Susan - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012
literature that links ethnic inequality and violent conflict. We measure welfare differentials between Kyrgyz and Uzbeks and find … that, depending on the welfare indicator used, Uzbeks are either better off or worse off than Kyrgyz. Specifically, we find … that Uzbeks are not better off, if welfare is measured in terms of household expenditure. They are, however, clearly more …
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Financial Transaction Tax Contributes to More Sustainability in Financial Markets
Schäfer, Dorothea - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012
We argue that a financial transaction tax complements financial market regulation. With the tax, governments have an additional instrument at hand to influence trading activity. FTT aims to reduce regulatory arbitrage, flash trading, overactive portfolio management, excessive leverage and...
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