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A macro-level analysis of adult-age language learning
Übelmesser, Silke; Weingarten, Severin - 2017
This article investigates the macro-level drivers of adult-age language learning. We construct a new dataset that covers German language learning in 77 countries (including Germany) for 1992-2006. Fixed-effects regressions show that language learning in the EU is strongly associated with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011663341
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The determinants and effects of social connectedness in Europe
Bailey, Michael; Kuchler, Theresa; Russel, Dominic; … - 2020
more connected, likely due to increased migration from poorer to richer regions. We find more socially connected region …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012219384
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Academic migration and academic networks : evidence from scholarly big data and the iron curtain
Kamel, Donia; Pollacci, Paura - 2023
migration. Academics in countries behind the Iron Curtain were strongly isolated from the rest of the world. This context poses … the question of the importance of academic networks for migration post the fall of the Berlin Wall and Iron Curtain. Using … cost of migration and thus acting as a facilitator or a de-facilitator of migration. The signal channel on the other hand …
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Social identity and voter turnout
Ben Basaṭ, Avi (contributor); Dahan, Momi (contributor) - 2008
This paper uses the unique social structure of Arab communities to examine the effect of social identity on voter turnout. We first show that voters are more likely to vote for a candidate who shares their social group (signified by last name) as compared to other candidates. Using last name as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003720609
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Neither backlash nor convergence : dynamics of intracouple childcare division after the first Covid-19 lockdown and subsequent reopening in Germany
Boll, Christina; Müller, Dana; Schüller, Simone - 2021
Using unique monthly panel data from the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) covering the immediate postlockdown period from June to August 2020, we investigate the opposing claims of widening/closing the gender gap in parental childcare during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. We contribute...
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Educating Europe
Poutvaara, Panu - 2004
The mobility of labor reduces national incentives to invest in internationally applicable education. The European Union could overcome this by allowing member states to institute graduate taxes or income-contingent loans, collected also from migrants. This paper presents calculations on how a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404287
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Fighting mobile crime
Crinò, Rosario; Immordino, Giovanni; Piccolo, Salvatore - 2019
their territory. Crime is mobile, ex ante (migration) and ex post (fleeing), and criminals hiding abroad after having com …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011956277
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On human capital formation with exit options : comment and new results
Poutvaara, Panu (contributor) - 2006
Katz and Rapoport (2005) conclude that with linear production technology and the possibility of unilateral migration … result with Cobb-Douglas technology and migration which may go in both directions. This paper shows that the exit option may …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003300958
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Voting on public pensions with hand and feet : how young migrants try to escape from gerontocracy
Haupt, Alexander; Peters, Wolfgang - 2001
, nevertheless, is restricted by migration of the young generations. This connection between political voting on intergenerational … case in which the young generations migration decision takes its effect on future pensions into account (strategic … migration) and the case in which it only reflects differentials in labor income (myopic migration). The paper also pays …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399341
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Migration, local fiscal variables and local economic conditions
Carlsen, Fredrik - 2001
on migration plans become weaker when amenity variables are included, indicating that capitalization of amenities cannot … explain weak effects of local economic conditions on migration in Europe. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399727