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We provide an overview of China's economic rise through time. Over the past decade, China has maintained 10% growth in GDP, albeit with a GDP per capita at the low level of a developing country. Its tremendous economic development has overlooked the growing social inequalities and rising...
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and females. Moreover, in some countries results show convergence between cohort and gender specific travel demand: women …Results from travel demand research in many countries show that - on average - women are less mobile and have different … mobility patterns than men. Recent longitudinal studies of gender specific travel demand reveal converging mobility of males …
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a low level of gender equality and development may have constraining effects on human trafficking outflows, contrary to …
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worked decisions of adults left behind, including the hours spent by women in subsistence and domestic work. We differentiate … effects for men and women separately. Additionally, we examine the labor supply behavior of wives whose husband migrated. We … Market Panel Survey (ELMPS06). In line with the literature, women in MR households (albeit not in M households) tend to …
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The paper investigates the role of social norms as a determinant of individual attitudes by analyzing risk proclivity reported by immigrants and natives in a unique representative German survey. We employ factor analysis to construct measures of immigrants' ethnic persistence and assimilation....
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immigrants. Using unique German survey data, the paper identifies marked gender differences in the effects of ethnic …. Assimilated immigrant women do better than those separated and marginalized, but those who develop an attachment to both cultures …
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males and females separately, and controlling for pre- and post-migration characteristics. We find strong gender differences …
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The paper investigates the role of human capital for migrants' ethnic ties towards their home and host countries. Pre-migration characteristics dominate ethnic self-identification. Human capital acquired in the host country does not affect the attachment to the receiving country.
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In this paper, we focus on network- and gender-specific determinants of remittances, which are often explained … (SOEP) for the years 2001-2006. Our findings show: first, the fact that foreign women remit less money than foreign men can …
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This paper studies the major determinants that affect the country choice of the talented Italian scientists and researchers who have at least a bachelor's from Italy and live abroad. There are three alternative country choices: the US/Canada, the UK, and other EU countries. On average, the...
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