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Immigrants and welfare programmes : exploring the interactions between immigrant characteristics, immigrant welfare dependence and welfare policy
Barrett, Alan (contributor); McCarthy, Yvonne (contributor) - 2008
The primary purpose of this paper is to provide a review of the papers within the economics literature that have examined the questions of immigrant welfare use and the responsiveness of immigrants to the incentives created by welfare systems. While our focus is largely on papers looking at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003716533
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Where do the brainy Italians go?
Constant, Amelie (contributor); D'Agosto, Elena (contributor) - 2008
/Canada, the UK, and other EU countries. On average, the brainy Italians exhibit a higher predicted probability to go to the US …, having extra working experience from outside Italy predicts migration to other EU countries. Those who stay abroad …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003652707
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Are US wages really determined by European labor-market institutions?
Meckl, Jürgen (contributor) - 2005
This paper integrates institutionally determined wage rigidities into an otherwise standard Heckscher-Ohlin model of international trade. It accounts for differences in individual productivities and their implications for individual wage incomes and demand for education. Although preserving the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003158652
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The obesity epidemic in Europe
Sanz de Galdeano, Anna (contributor) - 2005
phenomenon in nine EU countries from 1998 to 2001. The author documents cross-country prevalence, trends and cohort-age profiles …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003158654
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The effectiveness of European active labor market policy
Kluve, Jochen (contributor) - 2006
Measures of Active Labor Market Policy are widely used in European countries, but despite many econometric evaluation studies no conclusive cross-country evidence exists regarding "what program works for what target group under what (economic and institutional) circumstances?". This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003330264
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Ottoman conquests and European ecclesiastical pluralism
Iyigun, Murat (contributor) - 2006
This paper emphasizes that the evolution of religious institutions in Europe was influenced by the expansionary threat posed by the Ottoman Empire five centuries ago. This threat intensified in the second half of the 15th century and peaked in the first half of the 16th century with the Ottoman...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003278952
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Female labor market transitions in Europe
Kaiser, Lutz C. (contributor) - 2006
Using micro panel data, labor market transitions are analyzed for the EU-member states by cumulative year … analyses mainly refer to female labor supply. In search for important determinants of these transitions, six EU-countries with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003316483
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EU enlargement under continued mobility restrictions : consequences for the German labor market
Brenke, Karl; Yuksel, Mutlu; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009
The numbers of migrants from the accessions countries have clearly increased since the enlargement of the EU in 2004 …. Following enlargement, the net inflow of EU8 immigrants has become 2.5 times larger than the four-year period before enlargement …. Poles constitute the largest immigrant group among the EU8 immigrants: since enlargement, 63% of all immigrants and 71% of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003824777
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Labor-market exposure as a determinant of attitudes toward immigration
Ortega, Francesc; Polavieja, Javier G. - 2009
This paper re-examines the role of labor-market competition as a determinant of attitudes toward immigration. We claim two main contributions. First, we use more sophisticated measures of the degree of exposure to competition from immigrants than previously done. Specifically, we focus on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003906225
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Attitudes towards immigration : does economic self-interest matter?
Malchow-Møller, Nikolaj; Munch, Jakob Roland; Schroll, … - 2006
In this paper, we re-examine the role of economic self-interest in shaping people's attitudes towards immigration, using data from the European Social Survey 2002/2003. Compared to the existing literature, there are two main contributions of the present paper. First, we develop a more powerful...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003467008