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Chiswick, Barry R.; Mirtcheva, Donka M. - 2010

This paper examines the determinants of the health of children ages 6 to 19, as reported in the Child Development … health and the three measures of religion/religiosity. Those children (self-report or primary caregiver report) who have … religious affiliation and those who do not. -- health ; religion ; religiosity ; children ; adolescents …

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Determinants of bilingualism among children

Chiswick, Barry R.; Gindelsky, Marina - 2014

children age 5 to 18 years in the American Community Survey, 2005-2011. Two groups of children are considered: those born in … the US (native born) and foreign-born children who immigrated prior to age 14 (the 1.5 generation). The analyses are … (linguistic) concentration area. Although the effects are relatively smaller, a foreign-born grandparent living in the household …

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International migration and the economics of language

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2014

This paper provides a review of the research on the ‘economics of language' as applied to international migration. Its primary focuses are on: (1) the effect of the language skills of an individual on the choice of destination among international (and internal) migrants, both in terms of the...

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Corruption and the shadow economy : an empirical analysis

Dreher, Axel (contributor); Schneider, Friedrich (contributor) - 2006

This paper analyzes the influence of the shadow economy on corruption and vice versa. We hypothesize that corruption and shadow economy are substitutes in high income countries while they are complements in low income countries. The hypotheses are tested for a cross-section of 120 countries and...

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Corruption and the shadow economy : a structural equation model approach

Bühn, Andreas; Schneider, Friedrich - 2009

The relationship between corruption and the shadow economy is not clear. Theoretically, they either substitute or complement each other -exhibiting either a negative or positive relationship. This paper -using a structural equation model with two latent variables - extracts information on...

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Does the choice of reference levels of education matter in the ORU earnings equation?

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009

This paper examines whether the results of the earnings equation developed in the overeducation/required eduation/under-education (ORU) literature are sensitive to whether the usual or reference levels of education are measured using the Realized Matches or Worker Self-Assessment methods. The...

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ORU analyses of immigrant earnings in Australia, with international comparisons

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009

This paper examines the way immigrant earnings are determined in Australia. It uses the overeducation/required education/undereducation (ORU) framework (Hartog, 2000) and a decomposition of the native-born/foreign-born differential in the payoff to schooling developed by Chiswick and Miller...

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Shadow economies and corruption all over the world : what do we really know?

Schneider, Friedrich (contributor) - 2006

estimation methods are discussed and critically evaluated"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site …

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The (hidden) financial flows of terrorist organizations : a literature review and some preliminary empirical results

Schneider, Friedrich - 2010

the help of a latent estimation approach (MIMIC procedure). The figures show that Al Qaeda and other terror organizations …

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The impact of tax morale and institutional quality on the shadow economy

Torgler, Benno (contributor); … - 2007

This paper analyses how tax morale and countries' institutional quality affect the shadow economy, controlling in a multivariate analysis for a variety of potential factors. The literature strongly emphasizes the quantitative importance of these factors to understand the level and changes of...

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