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Ethnic drift and white flight : a gravity model of neighborhood formation

Bakens, Jessie; Florax, Raymond J. G. M.; Mulder, Peter - 2016

Ethnicity has become an increasingly important factor in neighborhood formation in many developed economies. We specify … a gravity model for neighborhoods to assess the role of ethnicity in intra-urban residential relocations. Migration …

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Unsuccessful subjective well-being assimilation among immigrants : the role of faltering perceptions of the host society

Hendriks, Martijn; Burger, Martijn J. - 2018

Immigrants in developed countries typically fail to assimilate in terms of subjective well-being, meaning that their happiness and life satisfaction do not substantially increase with their length of stay or across generations, and therefore their subjective well-being remains lower than that of...

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Estimating the effect of personality on male-female earnings

Mueller, Gerrit; Plug, Erik J. S. - 2004

The authors adopt the Five-Factor Model of personality structure to explore how personalityaffected the earnings of a large group of men and women who graduated from Wisconsin highschools in 1957 and were re-interviewed in 1992. All five basic traits–extroversion,...

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Nevertheless, they persist : cross-country differences in homeownership behavior

Huber, Stefanie J.; Schmidt, Tobias - 2022 - Version: November 26, 2021

Cross-country differences in homeownership rates are large and persistent over time, with homeownership rates ranging from 44% in Switzerland to 83% in Spain. This paper investigates whether cultures-defined as behavioral attitudes passed across generations-may value homeownership differently,...

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Language proficiency of migrants : the relation with job satisfaction and skill matching

Bloemen, Hans G. - 2014 - This version November 2014

language and job level. A lack of language skills may induce the migrant to work in jobs of a lower level leading to lower job …, we find evidence for a positive relationship between indicators for language proficiency and satisfaction with work type …

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Global aging and economic convergence : a real option or still a case of science fiction?

Dalen, Hendrik P. van - 2007

How does global aging affect the convergence in global economic development? Both the developing and developed world will be characterized for the coming decades by aging populations. Changes in the age distribution of a population are an important determinant of economic performance as they...

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Remittances and their effect on emigration intentions in Egypt, Morocco and Turkey

Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Groenewold, George; Fokkema, Tineke - 2005

What determines remittances – altruism or enlightened self-interest - and do remittances trigger additional migration? These two questions are examined empirically in Egypt, Turkey and Morocco for households with family members living abroad. Results show, first, that one cannot clearly...

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Cultural and institutional determinants of bilateral trade flows

Linders, Gert-Jan M.; Slangen, Arjen; Groot, Henri L. F. de - 2005

This paper studies the intangible costs of international trade by extending the basic gravity equation with measures of cultural and institutional distance, and institutional quality. Analyzing a sample of bilateral trade flows between 92 countries in 1999, we find that institutional distance...

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Effects of ethnic geographical clustering on educational attainment in the Netherlands

Graaff, Thomas de; Gorter, Cees; Nijkamp, Peter - 2001

Contemporary migration studies witness an increasing interest in the socio-economicrole of networks of migrants. Such networks are sometimes even regarded as the mostimportant attraction and location factors for migration, and may even exceed purelyeconomic factors like unemployment and wage...

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The effect of Sibling's gender on earnings, education and family formation

Peter, Noemi; Lundborg, Petter; Webbink, Herman Dinand - 2015 - This version: May 2015

We examine how the gender of a sibling affects earnings, education and family formation. Identification is complicated … by parental preferences: if parents prefer certain sex compositions over others, childrenś gender affects not only the … based on the gender of the other twin. We find that the gender of the sibling influences both men and women, but in a …

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