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Using data from the long-running German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 1984-2008, this paper analyses the effects of individual preferences and choices on subjective well-being (SWB). It is shown that preferences and choices relating to life goals/values, partner's personality, hours of work,...
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integration. The 'new economic geography' world assumes mobile entrepreneurs which can relocate thus bringing agglomeration forces … integration, where one country has emerged as the core and the other as the periphery, the core may have more generous social … constrained, however, and related to the level of trade integration in a bell-shaped way. …
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differentiating between actual and planned citizenship. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel, we measure the impact that integration …, but not to those educated in Germany. We find that the degree of integration in German society has a differential effect …
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questioned, they can be classified into four states - assimilation, integration, separation and marginalization. This is …
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It is often assumed that international labor migration from Tajikistan, while having no noticeable effects on investment (usually defined as medium and long-term consumption, such as education, or investment into housing or business), on average leads to an increase in short-term consumption,...
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This paper provides new evidence on migrant networks as determinants of the total size (scale) and skill structure of migration, using aggregate data from a recent migration boom to Spain. We draw upon McFadden (1984, 1422-1428) in order to develop and apply a three-level nested multinomial...
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focus on all individuals with a migration background. Major findings are: first, the degree of integration into German …
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This paper develops an axiomatic approach to the measurement of social exclusion. At the individual level, social exclusion is viewed in terms of deprivation of the person concerned with respect to different functionings in the society. At the aggregate level we treat social exclusion as a...
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The paper analyzes the integration of euro area sovereign bond markets during the European sovereign debt crisis. It …
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According to the economic theory of crime, a rise in expected punishment (the product of probability and severity of punishment) results in a reduction of crime due to deterrence. What appears to be a simple and straightforward hypotheses turns out to be a demanding task for empirical...
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