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Criminalization of Homosexuality and Sex Ratios
Chang, Simon - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Sexual activities between consenting adults of the same sex are still criminalized in more than one third of the countries in the world despite a global wave of decriminalization in the past sixty years. This paper empirically investigates the effect of sex ratios, i.e. relative number of men to...
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Confucianism and Preferences: Evidence from Lab Experiments in Taiwan and China
Liu, Elaine M.; Meng, Juanjuan; Wang, Joseph Tao-yi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper investigates how Confucianism affects individual decision making in Taiwan and in China. We found that Chinese subjects in our experiments became less accepting of Confucian values, such that they became significantly more risk loving, less loss averse, and more impatient after being...
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Exploring the Economic and Social Determinants of Psychological and Psychosocial Health
Shields, Michael A.; Wheatley Price, Stephen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
This paper explores the determinants of individuals’ psychological and psychosocial health using recent Health Survey for England data. We find evidence that our dependent variables, defined, respectively, from the GHQ12 and Perceived Social Support scores, are negatively related to household...
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Driving Forces Behind Informal Sanctions
Falk, Armin; Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
This paper investigates the driving forces behind informal sanctions in cooperation games and the extent to which theories of fairness and reciprocity capture these forces. We find that cooperators’ punishment is almost exclusively targeted towards the defectors but the latter also impose a...
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Gender Differences in the Effect of Residential Segregation on Workplace Segregation among Newly Arrived Immigrants
Tammaru, Tiit; Strömgren, Magnus; van Ham, Maarten; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
unique longitudinal register data from Sweden, we show that the role of residential segregation in workplace segregation …
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Canadian Immigration Policy and Immigrant Economic Outcomes: Why the Differences in Outcomes between Sweden and Canada?
Picot, Garnett; Sweetman, Arthur - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Immigrants to Canada enjoy labour market outcomes that are more favourable than those for their counterparts in Sweden … deteriorated significantly in Canada since the 1980s, as they have in many western countries including Sweden. …
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Pre-Hire Factors and Workplace Ethnic Segregation
Strömgren, Magnus; Tammaru, Tiit; van Ham, Maarten; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
In addition to neighbourhoods of residence, family and places of work play important roles in producing and reproducing ethnic segregation. Therefore, recent research on ethnic segregation and contact is increasingly turning its attention from residential areas towards other important domains of...
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Disparities in Social Assistance Receipt between Immigrants and Natives in Sweden
Gustafsson, Björn - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Social assistance receipt among immigrants in relation to receipt among natives in Sweden is investigated. A background … interpreted. Most out-payment for social assistance in Sweden refers to foreign born persons although the category makes up 14 …
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Neighbourhood Choice and Neighbourhood Reproduction
Bergström, Lina; van Ham, Maarten; Manley, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Although we know a lot about why households choose certain dwellings, we know relatively little about the mechanisms behind neighbourhood choice. Most studies of neighbourhood choice only focus on one or two dimensions of neighbourhoods: typically poverty and ethnicity. This paper argues that...
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Receiving Countries' Perspectives: The Case of Sweden
Gerdes, Christer; Wadensjö, Eskil - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Sweden has made its labour market more open for labour immigration since the mid1990s: becoming member of the common … rather stable in the years after the crisis in 2008. The main explanation is most likely that the recession in Sweden was … were employed. If the present EMU crisis is spreading to Sweden the result may of course be different. …
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