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Immigrant key workers : their contribution to Europe's COVID-19 response

Fasani, Francesco; Mazza, Jacopo - 2024

This paper contributes to the literature on the Covid-19 effects on workers and labor markets by focusing on the experience of migrant key workers in EU countries. Our analysis, based on survey data on more than 3 million workers, explores three main aspects. First, we document the...

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The economics of language : an introduction and overview

Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor) - 2008

This paper provides an introduction and overview of my research on the Economics of Language. The approach is that language skills among immigrants and native-born linguistic minorities are a form of human capital. There are costs and benefits associated with this characteristic embodied in the...

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Trust of second generation immigrants : intergenerational transmission or cultural assimilation?

Moschion, Julie; Tabasso, Domenico - 2013

This paper studies the respective influence of intergenerational transmission and the environment in shaping individual trust. Focusing on second generation immigrants in Australia and the United States, we exploit the variation in the home and in the host country to separate the effect of the...

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COVID-19 and the forces behind social unrest

Lackner, Mario; Sunde, Uwe; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2021

The unprecedented consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic have raised concerns about intensified social unrest, but evidence for such a link and the underlying channels is still lacking. We use a unique combination of nationally representative survey data, event data on social unrest, and data on...

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The COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on socioeconomic inequality in psychological distress in the UK: an update

Gao, Xiaoying; Davillas, Apostolos; Jones, Andrew M. - 2021

This paper extends the earlier work of Davillas and Jones (2021) on socioeconomic inequality in mental health, measured by the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ), to include the second national lockdown up to March 2021.

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How is the COVID-19 crisis exacerbating socioeconomic inequality among Palestinians in Israel?

Miaari, Sami H.; Sabbah-Karkabi, Maha; Loewenthal, Amit - 2020

The paper gives us a first look on the unique effects of the crisis on the Arab minority in Israel. It contributes to our understanding on how economic and epidemic crises affect marginalized ethnic minorities and informs decision makers while formulating policies to deal with the crisis's...

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Lives and livelihoods: estimates of the global mortality and poverty effects of the COVID-19 pandemic

Decerf, Benoit; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Mahler, … - 2020

This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 pandemic. Increases in mortality are measured in terms of the number of years of life lost (LY) to the pandemic. Additional years spent in poverty (PY) are conservatively...

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Deprivation, segregation, and socioeconomic class of UK immigrants : does English proficiency matter?

Aoki, Yu; Santiago, Lualhati - 2018

This paper studies the causal effect of English proficiency on residential location outcomes and the socioeconomic class of immigrants in England and Wales, exploiting a natural experiment. Based on the phenomenon that young children learn a new language more easily than older children, we...

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Socio-demographic factors associated with self-protecting behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic

Papageorge, Nicholas W.; Zahn, Matthew V.; Belot, Michèle - 2020

Disease spread is in part a function of individual behavior. We examine the factors predicting individual behavior during the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States using novel data collected by Belot et al. (2020). Among other factors, we show that people with lower income, less flexible work...

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Is religiosity of immigrants a bridge or a buffer in the process of integration? A comparative study of Europe and the United States

García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - 2012

sides of the Atlantic - Europe and the United States. Based on the existing literature and on a statistical analysis of … religious landscape of Europe and of the United States and projections for the future; (ii) religiosity of immigrants (in Europe … religiosity and integration different in Europe and in the United States, due to historical differences in the state …

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