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This note analyzes income differences between foreigners and natives in Germany. Using social survey data (ALLBUS) for … 2012, I use Mincer style quantile regressions and Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions to estimate the size of the income … differential. People not born in Germany, have an income lose for about 6,5 to 10 per cent. People with a foreign citizenship have …
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Review of Immigrant Networks and Social Capital by Carl L. Bankston III. Cambridge, UK, and Malden, MA: Polity.
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The main characteristic of the Latin American migration on the 20th century was the change of flow. Until the 1950s, Latin America received migrants from Europe and the Middle East. As a result of economic change, political instability, and economic crisis, Latin America started exporting...
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The comparison of Mexico’s 2009 A/H1N1 outbreak with the U.S. H1N1 outbreak of 1976 provides notable observations … design of effective Emerging Infectious Diseases (EIDs) surveillance programs in developing and middle-income countries …. Strengths Mexico’s strongest characteristics were its transparency, as well as the cooperation the country exhibited with other …
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Mexico. Design/methodology/approach - Archival research (including current writings) combines with unstructured interviews … working in Mexico and cases focusing on Mexican companies. Findings – The emergence of graduate degrees in management during … case studies overwhelmingly sought to help US managers doing business in Mexico. Since then a significantly greater number …
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Abstract: This paper applies the Blinder-Oaxaca methodology in order to decompose the average earnings differentials between Greek workers and different groups of immigrants. We use information about 8,429 individuals of which 1,185 are immigrants. The data are drawn from the Greek Labor Force...
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relationship between that misperceptions about immigrants an immigration and discrimination against immigrants in labor market. Our … of an econometric model confirms that misperceptions about the size of immigration and its effects on the country …
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Abstract: This paper applies cointegration analysis and Granger non-causality tests in order to identify the direction of causality between migration in Greece and two macroeconomic variables: GDP and unemployment. We use annual data for the 1980-2011 period. The data are drawn from the...
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The pace and incidence of improvements to oceanic travel conditions for American immigrants, during the quarter century preceeding the First World War, were significantly constrained by shipping lines’ capacity considerations. The improvements had no detectable impact on the overall volume of...
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different immigration policies. On the one hand, skill-neutral change implies an immigrant skill distribution that is dominated …-skill immigration along with high-skill immigration. We show consistency of our model's predictions with data from the United States and …
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