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Labor migration to Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries has massive effects on the GCC, the countries migrants come … from, and the migrants themselves and their families. Yet existing research on the effects of Gulf migration is marked by …
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migrants. [Working Paper No. 442]. URL:[http://www.cds.edu/]. …
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residential segregation. The authors adopt an approach to the decomposition of segregation measures that combines the method of … indirect standardization with the idea that some degree of segregation is the outcome of purely random processes. The authors … use the dissimilarity index as a measure of segregation and data on race and income from US metropolitan areas for 2000 …
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generations. When assessing the long-term integration of immigrants, it is therefore important to analyze differences not just …, virtually all studies of the later-generation descendants of immigrants rely on subjective measures of ethnic self … having ancestors who were immigrants from a Spanish-speaking country). Analyzing 1994- 2010 data from the Current Population …
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Patterns of rural-urban migration and employment shifts in a region that is facing ongoing depletion of groundwater resources in Northern Gujarat, India is discussed. Given that migration typically does not occur due to one singular risk, the study assessed the multifactorial drivers of...
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Globalization, or integration with the world economy via WTO membership, was expected to increase foriegn investment and benefit the labour intensive manufacturing sector in China. Yet, although foreign investment has been flowing into China and employment in the low-wage industries is...
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Existing research examining the self-selection of immigrants suffers from a lack of information on the immigrantsâ … matching for immigrants has been conducted prior to their leaving the home country using home country wages as the outcome …
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The analysis focuses on immigrants and native-born individuals because employers are likely to have less reliable … empirical finding that the wage gains associated with height are almost twice as large for immigrants than for native …
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, both with and without segregation, and studies the macroeconomic and welfare effects of segregation on aggregate economic …
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Increased voter ethnicization, defined as a greater preference for the party representing one's ethnic group, affects politician quality. If politics is characterized by incomplete policy commitment, then ethnicization reduces average winner quality for the pro-majority party with the opposite...
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