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International migration, ethnicity and economic inequality
Kahanec, Martin (contributor);  … - 2008
position in comparison to those at home, stimulate the economic situation of the sending countries through remittances and rise …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003688796
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Euroskepticism in the crisis : more mood than economy
Ritzen, Jozef M. M.; Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Wehner, Caroline - 2014
Before the Great Recession, rising income inequality within the European Union member states has been considered to be one driver for an increasing Euroskepticism. Using rich data on attitudes towards European integration from the Eurobarometer (EB) surveys, we revisit the issue by analyzing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252653
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Fading hope in the US
Ritzen, Jo; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2012
A substantial literature claims that the strong increase in inequality over the last decade in countries such as the US would lead to a collapse of society. Fading hopes in the population seem to confirm this. The paper rejects this interpretation since the decline in hopes cannot be traced back...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530716
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Migration, the quality of the labour force and economic inequality
Kahanec, Martin (contributor);  … - 2008
Mobility of workers involves flows of labour, human capital and other production factors and thus contributes to a more efficient allocation of resources. Besides these effects on allocative efficiency, migrant flows affect relative wages and also change the international and national...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003726798
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Environmental disasters and migration
Mbaye, Linguère Mously; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2015
insurance mechanism against environmental shocks. Remittances help to decrease households' vulnerability to shocks but also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346755
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Remittances and relative concerns in rural China
Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier B.; Giulietti, Corrado; … - 2015
The paper investigates the impact of remittances on the relative concerns of households in rural China. Using the Rural … relative concerns with respect to income and remittances. Our results show that although rural households experience … substantial utility loss due to income comparisons, they gain utility by comparing their remittances with those received by their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011294119
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Remittances and well-being among rural-to-urban migrants in China
Akay, Alpaslan; Giulietti, Corrado; Robalino, Juan David; … - 2012
The main objective of this paper is to propose a systematic approach to empirically analyse the effect of remittances …), we estimate models in which a measure of subjective well- being is regressed on the level of remittances, and we find a … sizeable positive correlation. The effect of remittances on well-being varies with the socio- economic characteristics of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009548717
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The economics of circular migration
Constant, Amelie; Nottmeyer, Olga; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2012
; international migration ; remittances …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009631443