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What Predicts a Successful Life? A Life-Course Model of Well-Being
Layard, Richard; Clark, Andrew E.; Cornaglia, Francesca; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
If policy-makers care about well-being, they need a recursive model of how adult life-satisfaction is predicted by childhood influences, acting both directly and (indirectly) through adult circumstances. We estimate such a model using the British Cohort Study (1970). The most powerful childhood...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010960126
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The Diffusion of Information Technology and the Increased Propensity of Teams to Transcend Institutional and National Borders
Winkler, Anne E.; Glänzel, Wolfgang; Levin, Sharon; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This study examines the relationship between the diffusion of IT and changes in collaboration patterns across … natural sciences and narrower fields such as economics and biology. Two measures of institutional collaboration are examined … collaboration patterns across universities and then use regression analysis to examine the impact of IT exposure on multi …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216751
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Do Inventors Talk to Strangers? On Proximity and Collaborative Knowledge Creation
Crescenzi, Riccardo; Nathan, Max; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors and a novel identification strategy, this paper … show that physical proximity is an important influence on collaboration, but is mediated by organisational and ethnic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010721624
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Freiheit und Bedrängnis: Zuwanderung am Arbeitsmarkt
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Die Nettozuwanderung nach Deutschland ist im Jahre 2013 wieder auf einen Wert gestiegen, den es zuletzt vor über einem Jahrzehnt gegeben hat. Gleichzeitig entwickelt sich aktuell eine besorgte öffentliche Debatte über die sogenannte Wohlfahrtsmigration - dabei wird unterstellt, dass Bürger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990911
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Does the Calculation Hold? The Fiscal Balance of Migration to Denmark and Germany
Hinte, Holger; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
accentuates the assets and deficits in migration and integration policies and their long-term potential. The less national …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884400
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Language and Labor Market Success
Isphording, Ingo E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
literacy as the ability to productively use written information. Significant effects are found for developed and developing … ongoing globalization leads to an increased demand for foreign language proficiency to reduce search and information costs and … migrants, destination language skills display both a prerequisite for and outcome of successful integration. Investments into …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959721
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Ethnic Identity and Work
Constant, Amelie F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Immigrants do not fare as well as natives in economic terms; even after including many controls, an unexplained part remains. The ethnic identity entered the field of labor and migration economics in an effort to better explain the economic outcomes of immigrants, their behavior and their often...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959840
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Social Deprivation and Exclusion of Immigrants in Germany
Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Sinning, Mathias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper aims at providing empirical evidence on social exclusion of immigrants in Germany. We demonstrate that when using a conventional definition of the social inclusion index typically applied in the literature, immigrants appear to experience a significant degree of social deprivation and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233747
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FSU Immigrants in Canada: A Case of Positive Triple Selection?
DeVoretz, Don J.; Battisti, Michele - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper investigates the economic performance of immigrants from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) countries in Canada …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005015504
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The Evaluation of Immigration Policies
Rinne, Ulf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
literature dealing with the evaluation of labor market programs and with the economic integration of immigrants. Next to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652097