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Unsuccessful subjective well-being assimilation among immigrants : the role of faltering perceptions of the host society

Hendriks, Martijn; Burger, Martijn J. - 2018

whose societal conditions strongly improved by migration and immigrants who arrived after childhood. Faltering societal …

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Starting off on the right foot : language learning classes and the educational success of immigrant children

Höckel, Lisa Sofie; Schilling, Pia - 2022

This study is the first empirical analysis to identify the causal effect of a separate preparatory language learning class on the academic success of newly immigrated primary school-aged children in comparison to their direct integration into regular classrooms. Employing unique administrative...

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Estimating earnings assimilation of immigrants to Germany : evidence from a double cohort model

Okoampah, Sarah - 2016

Following the seminal work of Chiswick (1978), many studies have examined the extent to which earnings of immigrants vary over the settlement process. While these studies usually find that the initial earnings gap between native and immigrant workers in traditional immigration countries...

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Mental health assimilation of Australian immigrants

Janisch, Laura M. - 2017

that the probability of suffering from poor mental health increases with time since migration. In addition, female …

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Thresholds of external flows for inclusive human development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Uduji, Joseph I.; Okolo-Obasi, Elda N. - 2019

flows, namely: development assistance, foreign investment and remittances. Ordinary Least Squares, Tobit, Fixed effects … threshold and (iii) 25 (% of GDP) is the critical mass of remittances. At the established critical masses or thresholds …

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External flows and inclusive human development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Leke, Ivo J. - 2017

findings from both estimation techniques reveal that remittances and FDI increase inclusive development whereas foreign aid has …, remittances are negatively associated with: (i) Middle income countries compared to Low income countries where the effect is not …

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Towards inclusive growth in Africa : remittances, and financial development interactive effects and thresholds

Ofori, Isaac Kwesi; Gbolonyo, Emmanuel Y.; Dossou, Toyo … - 2023

development in the remittances-inclusive growth relationship. First, evidence based on the system GMM estimator shows that … remittances are not statistically significant in promoting inclusive growth in Africa. Notably, across the economic growth and … income inequality dimensions of inclusive growth, we find that although remittances are ineffective in boosting the former …

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Employment assimilation of immigrants in the Netherlands

Zorlu, Aslan; Hartog, Joop - 2008

Using two Dutch labour force surveys, employment assimilation of immigrants is examined. We observe marked differences between immigrants by source country. Non-western immigrants never reach parity with native Dutch. Even second generation immigrants never fully catch up. Caribbean immigrants,...

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The urban growth potential of second-generation migrant entrepreneurs : a sectoral study on Amsterdam

Baycan Levent, Tüzin; Nijkamp, Peter; Şahín, Medíha - 2009

This study focuses on the external orientations of the second-generation migrant entrepreneurs by addressing in particular the way – and the extent to which – the choice for entrepreneurship is made by higher-educated young ethnic generations. The empirical data of our study is based on...

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Linguistic diversity in the classroom, student achievement, and social integration

Bredtmann, Julia; Otten, Sebastian; Vonnahme, Christina - 2018

Effekt des Anteils an Migranten in der Klasse oder Schule untersuchen, konzentrieren wir uns auf die sprachliche …

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