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Assessing the role of women in tourism related sectors in the Caribbean
Pastore, Francesco; Webster, Allan D.; Hope, Kevin - 2020
This study contributes to the rapidly growing literature on women in tourism. It focuses on a group of 13 Caribbean …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012252703
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Do international tourist arrivals change residents' attitudes towards immigration? : a longitudinal study of 28 European countries
Ivlevs, Artjoms; Smith, Ian - 2023
Western Europe, the relationship tends to turn from positive to negative at relatively high levels of tourism. The … instrumental variable analysis suggests that incoming tourism has a positive causal effect on attitudes towards immigration in both … Western and Eastern Europe. Overall, our study reveals an overlooked dimension of the tourism-migration nexus and highlights …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013546037
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Happy hosts? : international tourist arrivals and residents' subjective well-being in Europe
Ivlevs, Artjoms - 2016
While there has been a growing interest in the relationship between perceived tourism impacts and residents' quality of … pronounced in countries where tourism intensity is relatively high, as well as among people living in rural areas. In addition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517732
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Microeconomic determinants of domestic tourism expenditure in India
Azam, Mehtabul - 2022
Using a nationally representative household survey from India, we examine individuals' domestic tourism participation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013187175
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A theory of social forces and immigrant second language acquisition
DeVoretz, Don J.; Werner, Christiane - 2000
The preponderance of minimal second language acquisition by immigrants worldwide is striking. This paper proposes a theoretical model, which analyzes the underlying forces that contribute to this outcome of minimal secondary language acquisition by immigrants in such diverse immigrant-receiving...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011318595
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Costs and benefits of labour mobility between the EU and the Eastern Partnership Countries country study : Italy
Marchetti, Sabrina; Piazzalunga, Daniela; Venturini, … - 2013
Migrants from the Eastern Partnership Countries: Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan has increased in the last ten years. Two different patterns are detected among the most important groups: Ukrainian and Moldovan. The first is mainly composed by women with a temporary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010194750
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Ethnicity and gender in the labour market in Central and South East Europe
O'Higgins, Shane Niall - 2013
The Roma are both the largest 'minority' ethnic group in Central and South Eastern Europe and the one which suffered most from transition to the market. Still today, nearly forty years after the introduction of the EU's 1975 Discrimination Directive and with the end of the 'Roma Decade'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010196417
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UK migration policy and migration from Eastern Partnership countries
Clark, Kenneth; Drinkwater, Stephen J. - 2013
This paper examines UK migration policy and recent migration flows from Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries to the UK. Although inflows of migrant workers were relatively large in the mid-2000s, especially amongst Ukrainians, these have fallen following changes to UK immigration policy,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010196424
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Biomarkers and long-term labour market outcomes : the case of creatine
Böckerman, Petri; Bryson, Alex; Viinikainen, Jutta; … - 2014
Using the Young Finns Study (YFS) combined with the Finnish Linked Employer-Employee Data (FLEED) we show that quantities of creatine measured in 1980 prior to labour market entry affect labour market outcomes over the period 1990-2010. Those with higher levels of creatine (proxied by urine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010257593
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What is the value of foreign work experience? : analysing online CV data in Slovakia
Kureková, Lucia Mýtna; Žilinčíková, Zuzana - 2016
This paper studies how attractive young returnees are in the labour market and how they behave relative to stayers. We use the online CVs of young people that are posted on the major Slovak job-search portal. The analysis is performed using a set of regression models that investigate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011458966