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Measurement and Spatial Effects of the Immigrant Created Cultural Diversity in Sydney
Lalich, Walter F. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006
This paper analyses the contribution to the creation of a culturally diverse Sydney landscape by ethnic communities following the arrival of over a million and half non-English speaking settlers since 1948. Through fragmented collective actions, around 450 communal places were established to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385486
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Does Envy Destroy Social Fundamentals? The Impact of Relative Income Position on Social Capital
Torgler, Benno; Fischer, Justina A.V. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006
Research evidence on the impact of relative income position on individual attitudes and behaviour is sorely lacking. Therefore, this paper assesses such positional impact on social capital by applying 14 different measurements to International Social Survey Programme data from 25 countries. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005230827
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Value Through Diversity: Microfinance and Islamic Finance and Global Banking
Ferro, Nicoletta - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005
disseminating awareness on specific cultural and religious issues, resulting in increased integration of Muslim communities and low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005570238
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Citizenship Laws and International Migration in Historical Perspective
Bertocchi, Graziella; Strozzi, Chiara - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005
We investigate the origin, impact and evolution of citizenship laws. Citizenship laws originate from the common and civil law traditions, which apply jus soli and jus sanguinis, respectively. We compile a data set across countries of the world starting from the 19th century. The impact of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005423091
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The Struggle of Becoming Established in a Deprived Inner-City Neighbourhood
May, David - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003
The theory of established-outsider figurations developed by Norbert Elias is a use-ful tool for examining deprived neighbourhoods. The case of this paper is Dort-mund Nordstadt in Germany, an old inner-city neighbourhood which from its early days has housed the newly arrived immigrants. Elias...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385332
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Formation of Segregated and Integrated Groups
Watts, Alison - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006
empty group is added to a segregated stable partition, then integration may occur. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385469
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Indicators of Migrants’ Socio-Professional Integration
Gregori, Emilio - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006
Understanding and monitoring the diversity which lies under migrants’ socio-professional integration trends is a … integration of migrant people in Italy, based on data collected from administrative and official sources. This work was carried … of the theoretical concept of migrants, foreigners and integration was discussed, as well as the matters concerning the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005423176
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Agglomeration, Integration, and Territorial Authority Scale in a System of Trading Cities. Centralisation versus Devolution
Gatto, Massimo Del - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004
literature on integration/agglomeration and that on city size and formation, we show that: i) devolution results in over … economic (i.e. intensity of trade) integration, the higher is the magnitude of the inefficiency. From a theoretical point of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005423190
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The Public Management of Risk: Separating Ex Ante and Ex Post Monitors
Hiriart, Yolande; Martimort, David; Pouyet, Jerome - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010
When a firm undertakes risky activities, the conflict between social and private incentives to implement safety care requires public intervention which can take the form of both monetary incentives but also ex ante or ex post monitoring, i.e., before or after an accident occurs. We delineate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008828389
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Greening Up or Not? The Determinants Political Parties’ Environmental Concern: An Empirical Analysis Based on European Data (1970-2008)
Michallet, Benjamin; Gaeta, Giuseppe Lucio; Facchini, … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2015
Why do parties offer environmental policies in their political programs? While a number of papers examine the determinants of citizens’ pro-environmental behaviour, we know little about the extent to which political parties adjust their platform towards environmentalism. We investigate this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011268604