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Neighborhood Diversity and the Appreciation of Native- and Immigrant-Owned Homes
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2011
This paper examines the effect of neighborhood diversity on the nativity gap in home-value appreciation in Australia. Specifically, immigrant homeowners experienced a 41.7 percent increase in median home values between 2001 and 2006, while the median value of housing owned by the native-born...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134291
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Cultural Diversity and Plant‐Level Productivity
Trax, Michaela S. - 2012
Using comprehensive data for German establishments (1999-2008), we estimate plant-level production functions to analyze if “cultural diversity” affects total factor productivity. We distinguish diversity in the establishment's workforce and in the aggregate regional labor force where the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099725
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The economic incentives of cultural transmission: spatial evidence from naming patterns across France
Algan, Yann; Malgouyres, Clément; Mayer, Thierry; … - 2021
This paper studies how economic incentives influence cultural transmission, using a crucial expression of cultural identity: Child naming decisions. Our focus is on Arabic versus Non-Arabic names given in France over the 2003-2007 period. Our model of cultural transmission features three...
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The impact of the prehistoric Out of Africa migration on cultural diversity
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B.; Wainstock, Daniel … - 2023
Evidence suggests that the prehistoric Out of Africa Migration has impacted the degree of intra-population genetic and phenotypic diversity across the globe. This paper provides the first evidence that this migration has shaped cultural diversity. Leveraging a folklore catalogue of 958 oral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250074
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Gender pay gap and quantile regression in European families
Nicodemo, Catia - 2009
In this paper we analyze the trend of the gender gap between wives and husbands for Mediterranean countries with a strong family tradition, using data from the European Household Panel (ECHP) of 2001 and the European Survey on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) of 2006. In general, wives and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003808483
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Child-care and participation in the labor market for married women in mediterranean countries
Nicodemo, Catia; Waldmann, Robert - 2009
Parents in the labor force have balance their work and home life, including the choice of the type of care to provide for their children while they work. In this paper we study the connection between the married women's labor force participation, child care arrangements and the time that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003808569
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Living arrangements in Western Europe : does cultural origin matter?
Giuliano, Paola (contributor) - 2006
the fraction of young adults living with their parents in Mediterranean Europe. This paper presents a cultural … living arrangements in Northern and Southern Europe on account of the closer parent-child ties in Southern Europe. Such an … country of origin, the US living arrangements of second-generation immigrants mimic those in Europe across countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003301660
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A tale of parallel integration processes : a gravity analysis of EU trade with Mediterranean and Central and Eastern European countries
Ferragina, Anna (contributor);  … - 2005
Despite the EU emphasis on the 1995 Barcelona process, trade integration with the Mediterranean (MED) countries is still underdeveloped. To contrast the success of EU integration with MED countries and that with the new EU members, we compute the trade potential of these EU partners from 1995 to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003275037
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Demographic Divide and Labor Migration in the Euro-Mediterranean Region
Tosun, Mehmet Serkan - 2011
This paper provides a demographic outlook of the Euro-Mediterranean region and then shows the economic and fiscal consequences of such demographic differences within a two-region model with international labor mobility. International labor mobility is also examined through an externalities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117397
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Child-Care and Participation in the Labor Market for Married Women in Mediterranean Countries
Nicodemo, Catia - 2009
Parents in the labor force have balance their work and home life, including the choice of the type of care to provide for their children while they work. In this paper we study the connection between the married women's labor force participation, child care arrangements and the time that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764693