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"Tongue tide" : the economics of language offers important lessons for how Europe can best integrate migrants
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2016
This policy analysis discusses issues regarding the migration to Europe of large numbers of immigrants and refugees who …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011516716
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Anthropological demography in Europe
Georgiadis, Katerina - In: Demographic Research 17 (2007) 1, pp. 1-22
discussion presents the key anthropological approaches employed to realize a research project on low fertility in Europe, and … anthropological sense. 2) Those investigating fertility in Europe must remain critical of their position relative to their study …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005557973
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The Netherlands:Paradigm or Exception in Western Europe’s Demography?
Coleman, David; Garssen, Joop - In: Demographic Research 7 (2002) 12, pp. 433-468
This article reviews the position of the population of the Netherlands in the context of the demographic characteristics of the other seventeen major Western European countries. It attempts to show the ways in which the population of the Netherlands is part of the European mainstream and where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005163223
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Bridges or Buffers? Motives behind Immigrants’ Religiosity - A Comparative Study of Europe and the United States
García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
two sides of the Atlantic – Europe and the United States. The contribution of the study is mainly empirical, trying to … Social Survey (ESS), the American General Social Survey (GSS), and the International Social Survey Program (ISSP). Estimation … indeed more religious than the populations in the receiving countries, both in Europe and in the United States; and (b) while …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084585
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Social protection as an automatic stabilizer
Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas - 2010
This paper analyzes the effectiveness of social protection systems in Europe and the US to provide (income) insurance … income shock and 47% of an idiosyncratic unemployment shock in Europe, compared to 32% and 34% in the US. There is large … heterogeneity within Europe with stabilization being much lower in Eastern and Southern than in Central and Northern Europe. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008841933
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The state of university policy for progress in Europe
Hoareau, Cécile; Ritzen, Jozef M. M.; Marconi, Gabriele - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009697752
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Who cares for you at home? : personal and household services in Europe
Angermann, Annette; Eichhorst, Werner - 2013
Personal and household services have grown in importance as a potential area of employment creation. By formalizing personal and household services, not only can service jobs be created with providers, but also private households can be relieved from informal work in order that women in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010201630
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In Europe we trust?
Ritzen, Jozef M. M.; Haas, Jasmina - 2016
The decrease in the rule of law and in control of corruption in several EU countries is a threat to the cohesion in the EU. Brexit has reinforced the centrifugal forces in the EU. To counter this threat the EU needs to engage in unpopular measures as they infringe on the Member States'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011516715
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Can the university save Europe?
Ritzen, Jozef M. M. - 2012
Higher education is in the position to save Europe by rendering a substantial contribution to sustainable economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009561436
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Immigrant key workers : their contribution to Europe's COVID-19 response
Fasani, Francesco; Mazza, Jacopo - 2020
the Commission and Member States have identified using the most recent wave of the EU Labour Force Survey. Our results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207346