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Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2010

Culture is not new to the study of migration. It has lurked beneath the surface for some time, occasionally protruding openly into the discussion, usually under some pseudonym. The authors bring culture into the open. They are concerned with how culture manifests itself in the migration process...

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The impact of employment protection mandates on demographic temporary employment patterns : international microeconomic evidence

Kahn, Lawrence M. (contributor) - 2005

Using 1994-98 International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) microdata, this paper investigates the impact of employment protection laws on the incidence of temporary employment by demographic group. More stringent employment protection for regular jobs is predicted to increase the relative...

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What explains prevalence of informal employment in European countries : the role of labor institutions, governance, immigrants, and growth

Hazans, Mihails - 2011

capita has a positive impact on informality in Europe at large and within Eastern and Southern Europe. Other things equal … falls with stricter employment protection legislation (EPL) and higher tax wedge on labor. Thus it appears that in Europe at … Eastern and Southern Europe or Western and Northern Europe are considered separately. Furthermore, within Western and Northern …

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Immigration and innovation in European regions

Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2011

data on 170 regions in Europe (NUTS 2 level) for the periods 1991-1995 and 2001-2005. Innovation outcomes are measured by …

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Divorce among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S.

Houseworth, Christina A.; Chiswick, Barry R. - 2019

This paper analyzes the status of being currently divorced among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S., among themselves and in comparison to the native born of the same ancestries. The data are for males and females age 18 to 55, who married only once, in the 2010-2014 American Community...

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Clans, guilds, and markets : apprenticeship institutions and growth in the pre-industrial economy

De la Croix, David; Doepke, Matthias; Mokyr, Joel - 2016

In the centuries leading up to the Industrial Revolution, Western Europe gradually pulled ahead of other world regions … explain the rise of Europe relative to regions that relied on the transmission of knowledge within extended families or clans. …

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"A flop or a success?" : an evaluation of the welfare impacts of the 6-3-3-4 education system in Nigeria

Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2015

The need for graduates who would be productive citizens able to contribute significantly to the Nigerian economy led to the overhaul of the old education system 6-5-4 and the implementation of the 6-3-3-4 system, with its first set of graduates from secondary schools in 1988. The main objective...

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Human capital accumulation, education and earnings inequality

Sunde, Uwe - 2001

This paper attempts to add to the understanding of the causes for the differing recent developments in inequality in OECD countries. The similarity of shocks and technological changes affecting these countries suggests that interactions of these shocks and countryspecific institutions are...

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Occupational attainment and earnings among immigrant groups : evidence from New Zealand

Maani, Sholeh A.; Dai, Mengyu; Inkson, Kerr - 2015

This paper concerns the prediction of career success among migrants. We focus specifically on the role of occupation as a mediating variable between the predictor variables education and time since migration, and the dependent variable career success as denoted by occupational status, linked to...

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Unilingual versus bilingual education system : a political economy analysis

Ortega, Javier (contributor); … - 2004

We consider an economy with two language groups, where only agents who share a language can produce together. Schooling enhances the productivity of students and may modify their language endowment. Under a unilingual system, the language of the politically dominant group is the only language of...

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