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Discrimination, narratives and family history : an experiment with Jordanian host and Syrian refugee children

Barron, Kai; Harmgart, Heike; Huck, Steffen; Schneider, … - 2020

We measure the prevalence of discrimination between Jordanian host and Syrian refugee children attending school in Jordan. Using a simple sharing experiment, we find only little discrimination. Among the Jordanian children, however, we see that those who descended from Palestinian refugees do...

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The effect of early childhood education and care services on the social integration of refugee families

Gambaro, Ludovica; Neidhöfer, Guido; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2020

Devising appropriate policy measures for the integration of refugees is high on the agenda of many governments. This … paper focuses on the social integration of families seeking asylum in Germany between 2013 and 2016. Exploiting regional … parents' integration. We find a significant and substantial positive effect, in particular on the social integration of …

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Urban accessibility and spatial segregation in Brazilian cities : a configurational perspective

Barros, Ana Paula; Medeiros, Valério Augusto Soares de; … - 2017

their relative degree of accessibility/integration to the city as a whole. The study searches to verify to what extent such …, also known as Space Styntax, which allows quantifying the configurational variable by means of the so-called "integration …

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Social distance, immigrant integration, and welfare chauvinism in Sweden

Goldschmidt, Tina; Rydgren, Jens - 2018

Populist radical right-wing parties across Europe garner support for welfare chauvinistic promises to limit government spending on immigrants and focus on natives' welfare instead. However, most research on the so-called immigration-welfare nexus does not study welfare chauvinism but instead...

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Gender role changes and their impacts on Syrian women refugees in Berlin in light of the Syrian crisis

Habib, Nisren - 2018

Gender roles of Syrian women started to shift in 2011, in light of the Syrian conflict. This shift was a response to the difficult situations which Syrian women faced inside Syria as well as in the neighboring countries to which they fled in the attempt to find safer living conditions. However,...

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Evolution of locations, specialisation and factor returns with two distinct waves of globalisation

Thia, Jang Ping (contributor) - 2008

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Minimum wages and earnings inequality in urban Mexico : revisiting the evidence

Bosch Mossi, Mariano (contributor); … - 2008

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The century of education

Morrisson, Christian (contributor); … - 2009

This paper presents a historical database on educational attainment in 74 countries for the period 1870-2010, using perpetual inventory methods before 1960 and then the Cohen and Soto (2007) database. The correlation between the two sets of average years of schooling in 1960 is equal to 0.96. We...

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Inequality and unemployment in a global economy

Helpman, Elhanan (contributor); Itskhoki, Oleg (contributor) - 2009

This paper develops a new framework for examining the distributional consequences of international trade that incorporates firm and worker heterogeneity, search and matching frictions in the labor market, and screening of workers by firms. Larger firms pay higher wages and exporters pay higher...

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Employment, inequality and the UK national minimum wage over the medium-term

Dolton, Peter J.; Rosazza-Bondibene, Chiara; Wadsworth, … - 2010

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