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This text is concerned with the increasingly important and problematic area of financial exclusion, broadly defined as the inability and/or reluctance of particular societal groups to access mainstream financial services. This has emerged as a major international policy issue. There is growing...
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major, contemporary flows: two in west and east Europe, and one each in the Americas and Asia. The analysis, in each case … and refugee inflows in Europe -- II: Challenges across Regions - Eastern Europe, Central America and South-East Asia -- 9 …. Conflicts in Eastern Europe: Exodus from Ukraine and Russia -- 10. Central America: The unresolved migration conundrum -- 11 …
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Globale Fluchtbewegungen und Migrationsrouten -- Regionale Hot Spots -- Flucht- und Migrationsgründe -- Transnationalität als Lebensform -- Partizipation als Fortsetzung der Integration -- Lösungsansätze.
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book coincides with the emergence of immigration as a major political and economic issue in the USA, Japan Europe and many …'The Economics of Immigration. Theory and Policy' is written as a both a reference for researchers and as a textbook on … the economics of immigration. It is aimed at two audiences: (1) researchers who are interested in learning more about how …
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This policy analysis discusses issues regarding the migration to Europe of large numbers of immigrants and refugees who …
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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 …
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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 …
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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...
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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'...
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