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We explore the relationship between the social interaction of parents and their offspring from a theoretical and an empirical perspective. Our theoretical framework establishes possible explanations for the intergenerational transfer of social interaction whereby the social interaction of the...
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Some immigrants try to keep their ethnicity hidden while others become ever deeply more mired in their home culture. We argue that among immigrants this struggle manifests itself in the ethnic goods they choose to consume. Different types of ethnic goods have vastly different effects on...
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alcohol problems than men who stayed. For women, we again see a higher incidence of alcohol problems for short-term migrants …. However, long-term female migrants are less likely to have suffered from alcohol problems. …
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We study the role of ethnic networks in migrants’ job search and the quality of jobs they find in the first years of … result of restrictions in welfare eligibility since 1997, we study whether this increases the probability that new migrants … view. However, accounting for their higher employability, new migrants seem to fare better up to a year and half after …
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social traits of parents has an effect on the segregation of minorities and migrants. …
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This paper examines the residential mobility behaviour of migrants and natives in the Netherlands using a rich … to be about 18 percentage points lower for nonwestern migrants than for natives. About 65 percent of the differential is …. No indication is found of the spatial assimilation of second-generation nonwestern migrants. On the other hand, the …
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The paper analyses the problem of a "skills shortage" in Australia. It begins with an analysis of the operation of a labour market in terms of stocks and flows of labour services and human capital acquisition. It discusses the definition of a skills shortage, why it persists, and then looks at...
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suggest that the educational gap between natives and migrants is mainly due to the 'endowment effect' provided by the … socioeconomic background of parents and cultural capital at home. Some adverse 'integration effects' do exist for female migrants in …
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the practice of married, female migrants leaving their children in the care of relatives in rural areas in order to …
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Diese Studie bilanziert den Beitrag der ausländischen Bevölkerung in Deutschland zu den öffentlichen Haushalten im Fiskaljahr 2004. Grundlage sind auf Basis des Sozio- Oekonomischen Panels geschätzte, auf die Staatseinnahmen und -ausgaben gemäß Volkswirtschaftlichen Gesamtrechnungen...
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