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First time around : local conditions and multi-dimensional integration of refugees
Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Poutvaara, Panu; Schikora, Felicitas - 2020
refugees' multi-dimensional integration outcomes (economic, linguistic, navigational, political, psychological, and social … social integration: they are less likely to be in education or employment and they earn less. We also show that favorable … attitudes towards immigrants promote refugees' economic and social integration. The results suggest that attitudes toward …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012383742
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Forced migration, staying minorities, and new societies : evidence from post-war Czechoslovakia
Grossmann, Jakub; Jurajda, Štěpán; Rösel, Felix - 2021
How do staying minorities that evade ethnic cleansing integrate into re-settled communities? After World War Two, three million ethnic Germans were expelled from Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland, but some were allowed to stay, many of them left-leaning anti-fascists. We study quasi-experimental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012489627
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Performance rating and yardstick competition in social service provision : presented at TAPES Conference on Fiscal Federalism, May 2004
Revelli, Federico - 2004
This paper investigates whether national evaluation of decentralised government performance tends, by lessening local information spill-overs, to reduce the scope for local performance comparisons and consequently to lower the extent of spatial auto-correlation among local government...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450696
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Economic-social interaction in China
Lindbeck, Assar (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003630516
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Genetic distance and international migrant selection
Krieger, Tim; Renner, Laura; Ruhose, Jens - 2015 - This version: July 2015
This paper looks at the effect of the relatedness of two countries, measured by their genetic distance, on educational migrant selection. We analyze bilateral country-level education-specific migration stocks from 85 sending countries to the 15 main destination countries in 2000 and show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011300374
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Trade, factor mobility and the extent of economic integration : theory and evidence
Mikolajun, Irena; Viaene, Jean-Marie - 2015
integration benchmark which consists of the steady state production equilibrium characterized by free trade and perfect factor … economic integration in 2009 are remarkably close across regions. For example, we calculate that economic integration in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309224
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Immigration and the distribution of incomes
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2013
Immigration may impact income distribution both by affecting the skill composition of a country's residents, and, by changing relative factor supplies, its relative factor prices. We provide some background evidence on compositional factors but focus primarily on factor prices. We first consider...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010227178
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Aggregate fluctuations and international migration
Beine, Michel; Bourgeon, Pauline; Bricongne, Jean-Charles - 2013
Traditional theories of integration such as the optimum currency area approach attribute a prominent role to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009791652
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Do natural hazards cause international migration?
Gröschl, Jasmin Katrin; Steinwachs, Thomas - 2016
The estimated amount of people affected by natural hazards stands at a staggering number of about 243 million people per year. While not all of the affected move across borders, international migration potentially provides an adaptation mechanism to natural hazards. The aim of this paper is to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011551039
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International migration, income taxes and transfers : a welfare analysis
Michael, Michael S. - 2002
An important issue in public policy debates is the effect of international migration on welfare in source and host countries. We address this issue by constructing a general equilibrium model of a two-class source or host country. Each country produces many traded and non-traded goods, uses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011541114