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Income support, (un-)employment and well-being
Hetschko, Clemens; Schöb, Ronnie; Wolf, Tobias - 2016
Using specific panel data of German welfare benefit recipients, we investigate the non-pecuniary life satisfaction effects of in-work benefits. Our empirical strategy combines difference-in-difference designs with synthetic control groups to analyze transitions of workers between unemployment,...
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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012061053
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011848261
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011793935
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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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Transfers or public good provision? : A political allocation perspective
Nitsan, Shemuʾel - 1994
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Employment outcomes in the welfare state
Ngai, Liwa Rachel (contributor);  … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003649903
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Government transfers and political support
Manacorda, Marco (contributor); Miguel, Edward (contributor) - 2009
We estimate the impact of a large anti-poverty program the Uruguayan PANES on political support for the government that implemented it. The program mainly consisted of a monthly cash transfer for a period of roughly two and half years. Using the discontinuity in program assignment based on a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003867958
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Do oil windfalls improve living standards? : evidence from Brazil
Caselli, Francesco; Michaels, Guy - 2009
We use variation in oil output among Brazilian municipalities to investigate the effects of resource windfalls. We find muted effects of oil through market channels: offshore oil has no effect on municipal non-oil GDP or its composition, while onshore oil has only modest effects on non-oil GDP...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003904418