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How Immigration Reduced Social Capital in the US: 2005-2011

Freire, Tiago; Li, Xiaoye - European Regional Science Association - 2013

Putnam (1995)'s seminal work was one of the first to describe the decline of social capital in the US after the 1960s, a period that saw a large increase in the flow of immigrants into the US. Using the Volunteer Supplement of the September Sample of the Current Population Survey (CPS) between...

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Settlement and migration patterns among immigrants in Norway

Stambøl, Lasse Sigbjørn - European Regional Science Association - 2014

refugees and their families towards labour immigrants and their families, where family unifications with labour immigrants … exceed the family unifications with refugees since 2007. Refugees and their families show the strongest tendency to stay in … increased their share of immigrants. A stable immigration of refugees towards less central areas results in a strong and …

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Civic Capital and the Vertical Integration of Service Provision: Evidence from Italy

Buerker, Matthias; Minerva, Gaetano Alfredo - European Regional Science Association - 2013

This paper studies whether civic capital acts an effective restraint against opportunistic behavior in transactions, looking at the degree of outsourcing to external suppliers of service provision in Italian firms. Our results show that, on average, firms tend to outsource more services where...

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The Place Marketing Concept of Rural Towns in Northern Sweden: What is the Unique Selling Point?

Kompaniets, Olga; Rauhut, Daniel - European Regional Science Association - 2013

The place marketing concept is one of the popular concepts to analyze and promote countries, regions, cities and towns. The intensification of competition for investment, tourism and human resources among European cities and towns has increased the importance of being unique. Consequently this...

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The missing link in marine ecosystem-based management

Arbo, Peter; Thanh, Thuy Pham Thi - European Regional Science Association - 2014

The missing link in marine ecosystem-based management Peter Arbo, University of Tromsø ? The Arctic University of Norway Phạm Thị Thanh Thủy, University of Nha Trang The Arctic region is receiving growing attention. There is increasing interest in exploiting the natural resources and the...

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Neighborhood Effect and Labor Market Integration

To, Maxime; Solignac, Matthieu - European Regional Science Association - 2014

The 2008 economic crisis raised concerns about unemployment, especially for youths. Over the last decade, two stylized facts can be observed in the French labor market about youth unemployment: its average rate remaining at high levels and its major spatial variations. This paper investigates...

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Deindustrialization and Tertiarization and the Polarization of Household Incomes: The Example of German Agglomerations

Gornig, Martin; Goebel, Jan - European Regional Science Association - 2014

Deindustrialization and Tertiarization and the Polarization of Household Incomes: The Example of German Agglomerations The deindustrialization of the economy has left deep scars on cities. It is evident not only in the industrial wastelands and empty factory buildings scattered throughout the...

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Migration and work: the cohesive role of vocational training policies

Ragazzi, Elena; Sella, Lisa - European Regional Science Association - 2013

Migration and work are truly connected notions, both because one major cause of migration is the search of better working conditions, and because work is a fundamental vehicle of social cohesion, especially for the migrants. Hence, the European social model strongly connects social cohesion and...

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Downward drifting Sticky Floors? - Evidence on the Development of Wage Inequality Among Foreigners in Germany

Ludsteck, Johannes; Lehmer, Florian - European Regional Science Association - 2013

We employ the German social security register data to analyze the development of wage inequality among foreigners in Germany. The data show a sharp increase of wage inequality which exceeds the size observed for natives. The decomposition methods proposed by DiNardo et al. (1996) are employed to...

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Homeownership of immigrants in France

Gobillon, Laurent; Solignac, Matthieu - European Regional Science Association - 2014

We investigate the difference in homeownership rate between natives and immigrants as well as its evolution in France using a large longitudinal dataset over the 1975-1999 period. For people staying on the territory the whole time (ie. stayers), we show that returns of characteristics change in...

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