Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 852
Cover Image
Child Health, Parental Well-Being, and the Social Safety Net
Adhvaryu, Achyuta; Daysal, N. Meltem; Gunnsteinsson, … - 2023
How do parents contend with threats to the health and survival of their children? Can the social safety net mitigate negative economic effects through transfers to affected families? We study these questions by combining the universe of cancer diagnoses among Danish children with register data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014356602
Cover Image
Justice Delayed is Assimilation Denied : Rightwing Terror, Fear and Social Assimilation of Turkish Immigrants in Germany
Deole, Sumit S. - 2018
In 2011, German police accidentally stumbled upon a previously unknown right-wing extremist group called the National Socialist Underground (NSU). Further investigations implicated the group in previously unexplained murders of mostly ethnically Turkish individuals and in other crimes targeting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908664
Cover Image
Migration and Cultural Change
Rapoport, Hillel - 2020
the host country's culture. While migrants do act as vectors of cultural diffusion and bring about cultural convergence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012823554
Cover Image
Ethnic Identity and the Employment Outcomes of Immigrants : Evidence from France
Delaporte, Isaure - 2019
. The results show that having multiple identities improves the employment outcomes of the migrants and contribute to help …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866393
Cover Image
Labor Market Competition and the Assimilation of Immigrants
Albert, Christoph; Glitz, Albrecht; Llull, Joan - 2021
In this paper, we show that the wage assimilation of immigrants is the result of the intricate interplay between individual skill accumulation and dynamic equilibrium effects in the labor market. When immigrants and natives are imperfect substitutes, increasing immigrant inflows widen the wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013216254
Cover Image
The Social Integration of International Migrants : Evidence from the Networks of Syrians in Germany
Bailey, Michael; Johnston, Drew; Koenen, Martin; … - 2022
.g., attitudes to-ward neighbors or migrants). Relative friending is higher in areas with lower unemployment and more completed …We use de-identified data from Facebook to study the social integration of Syrian migrants in Germany, a country that … received a large influx of refugees during the Syrian Civil War. We construct measures of migrants’ social integration based on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013292505
Cover Image
Replicator Evolution of Welfare Stigma : Welfare Fraud vs. Incomplete Take-Up
Itaya, Jun-ichi; Kurita, Kenichi - 2021
There are two important problems in welfare benefit programs: the prevalence of welfare fraud, in which ineligible people receive welfare benefits, and incomplete take-up, whereby eligible poor people are reluctant to claim welfare benefits. This study investigates both of these opposing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315183
Cover Image
Self-Selection in Physical and Mental Health Among Older Intra-European Migrants
Constant, Amelie F. - 2020
The Healthy Immigrant Paradox found in the literature by comparing the health of immigrants to that of natives in the host country, may suffer from serious cultural biases. Our study evades such biases by utilizing a destination-origin framework, in which we compare the health of emigrants to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822692
Cover Image
Refugees' and Irregular Migrants' Self-Selection into Europe : Who Migrates Where?
Aksoy, Cevat Giray - 2019
About 1.4 million refugees and irregular migrants arrived in Europe in 2015 and 2016. We model how refugees and … irregular migrants are self-selected. Using unique datasets from the International Organization for Migration and Gallup World … irregular migrants for multiple origin and destination countries. Refugees and female irregular migrants are positively self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012864933
Cover Image
Welfare Reforms and the Division of Parental Leave
Jørgensen, Thomas Høgholm; Søgaard, Jakob Egholt - 2021
We study the design of parental leave systems through the lens of an estimated model of parents’ joint willingness to pay for parental leave. We estimate the model using Danish register data on almost 200,000 births combined with sharp variation in economic incentives created by the parental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013231959