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This paper considers an economic analysis of intergenerational transition of ethnic and social trait. We consider the level of social traits chosen by parents and its effect on their children's choice of ethnic and social traits when reaching adulthood. We develop a theory that suggests that...
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Using an identification strategy based on random assignment of refugees to different municipalities in Denmark between 1986 and 1998, we find strong evidence that gang crime rates in the neighbourhood at assignment increase the probability of boys to commit crimes before the age of 19, and that...
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We investigate the effectiveness of Arizona's omnibus immigration law SB1070, which made it a misdemeanor crime for an alien to not carry proper documentation and asked police to determine the immigration status of any person suspected of being an illegal alien during a lawful stop. We find that...
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This paper considers an economic analysis of intergenerational transition of ethnic and social trait. We consider the level of social traits chosen by parents and its effect on their children's choice of ethnic and social traits when reaching adulthood. We develop a theory that suggests that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004971278
We investigate the effectiveness of Arizona’s omnibus immigration law SB1070, which made it a misdemeanor crime for an alien to not carry proper documentation and asked police to determine the immigration status of any person suspected of being an illegal alien during a lawful stop. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011129936
We use a gravity model of migration and alternative estimation strategies to analyse how income differentials affect … include observations with zero flow values find that recent male immigrants respond to differences in (short-term) GDP … fluctuations between origin countries and U.S. states, and perhaps to (long-term) trend GDP differences as well. More specifically …
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We use a gravity model of migration and alternative estimation strategies to analyse how income differentials affect … include observations with zero flow values find that recent male immigrants respond to differences in (short-term) GDP … fluctuations between origin countries and U.S. states, and perhaps to (long-term) trend GDP differences as well. More specifically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010570358
Do migrants send remittances as a way of obtaining insurance? While this motive is theoretically suggested in the literature, the question of identifying this relationship empirically has only begun to be explored. Using a unique representative survey of 1500 immigrants in the Greater Dublin...
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Two of the most salient trends surrounding the issue of migration and development over the last two decades are the … large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross …-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit less, leading to concerns that further increases in skilled migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532677