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Who leaves the city? : the influence of ethnic segregation and family ties

Zorlu, Aslan (contributor) - 2008

In the last three decades, the population of Amsterdam has been 'coloured' due to immigration flows from abroad and a low outflow rate among these immigrants and their descendants. The question is to what extent differences in spatial mobility behaviour of migrants and natives are generated by...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003652715

A dual policy paradox : why have trade and immigration policies always differed in labor-scarce economies?

Hatton, Timothy J. (contributor); … - 2006

opposite, open immigration and closed trade policies. Why the inverse policy correlation, and why has it persisted for almost … two centuries? This paper seeks answers to this dual policy paradox by exploring the fundamentals which have influenced … the evolution of policy: the decline in the costs of migration and its impact on immigrant selectivity, a secular switch …

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Sibling death clustering in India : state dependence vs. unobserved heterogeneity

Arulampalam, Wiji (contributor); … - 2006

. Another hypothesis of considerable interest for both theory and policy is that there is a causal process whereby the death of …

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Youth emancipation and perceived job insecurity of parents and children

Becker, Sascha O.; Bentolila, Samuel; Fernandes, Ana; … - 2005

The age at which children leave the parental home differs considerably across countries. In this paper we argue that lower job insecurity of parents and higher job insecurity of children delay emancipation. We provide aggregate evidence which supports this hypothesis for 12 European countries...

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Extremism within the family

Epstein, Gil S. (contributor) - 2006

This paper considers an economic analysis of intergenerational transition of ethnic and social trait. We consider the level of social traits chosen by parents and its effect on their children's choice of ethnic and social traits when reaching adulthood. We develop a theory that suggests that...

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A comparison and decomposition of reform-era labor force participation rates of China's ethnic minorities and Han majority

Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Hughes, James W.; Zhang, Dandan - 2009

This paper examines differences in China's ethnic majority and minority patterns of labor force participation and decomposes these differences into treatment and endowment effects using the technique developed by Borooah and Iyer (2005). Population census data are used to estimate...

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The paradox of declining female happiness

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2009

By many objective measures the lives of women in the United States have improved over the past 35 years, yet we show that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women's happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men. The paradox of women's declining relative well-being is...

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IQ and family background : are associations strong or weak?

Björklund, Anders; Eriksson, Karin Hederos; Jäntti, Markus - 2009

For the purpose of understanding the underlying mechanisms behind intergenerational associations in income and education, recent studies have explored the intergenerational transmission of abilities. We use a large representative sample of Swedish men to examine both intergenerational and...

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Religion, human capital investments and the family in the United States

Lehrer, Evelyn L. - 2009

This paper critically reviews what is known, based on analyses of micro-level U.S. data, about the role of religion in various interrelated decisions that people make over the life cycle, including investments in secular human capital, cohabitation, marriage, divorce, family size and employment....

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The role of demographics in precipitating crises in financial institutions

Macunovich, Diane J. - 2009

There are significant effects of changing demographics on economic indicators: growth in GDP especially, but also the current account balance and gross capital formation. The 15-24 age group appears to be one of the key age groups in these effects, with increases in that age group exerting...

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