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Strangers and foreigners : trust and attitudes toward citizenship
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo; Tedeschi, Gian Luca - 2022
We analyze the relationship between natives' attitudes towards citizenship acquisition for foreigners and trust. Our hypothesis is that, in sub-Saharan Africa, the slave trade represents the deep factor behind contemporary attitudes toward citizenship, with more intense exposure to historical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012805676
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Ethnicity differentials in academic achievements : the role of time investments
Ha Trong Nguyen; Connelly, Luke B.; Le, Huong Thu; … - 2020
Children of Asian immigrants in most English-speaking destinations have better academic outcomes, yet the underlying causes of their advantages are under-studied. We employ panel time-use diaries by two cohorts of children observed over a decade to present new evidence that children of Asian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012170281
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The effect of same-sex marriage legalization on interstate migration in the United States
Marcén, Miriam; Morales, Marina - 2019
affect the migration decisions of individuals, to the extent that those states approving same-sex marriage can be considered … less discriminatory. Results show that that legal reform permanently increased the migration flow of homosexuals moving to … driving our estimates since the migration flow of homosexuals is not limited to border or close states. Supplemental analysis …
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Even more discouraged? : the NEET generation at the age of COVID-19
Aina, Carmen; Brunetti, Irene; Mussida, Chiara; … - 2021
This paper evaluates if and to what extend the risk of becoming Not in Employment, Education or Training (NEET) has worsened during the Covid-19 pandemic in Italy. The analysis is based on a unique dataset from the merging of two sample surveys, the Italian Labor Force Survey and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012548075
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Return, circular, and onward migration decisions in a knowledge society
Constant, Amelie - 2019
, circular and onward migration of the highly-skilled migrants around the world. After it describes the status quo in the … knowledge economy and the international race for talent, it presents the relevant theories and concepts of migration in the … social sciences and how these theories accommodate the phenomena of return, repeat and onward migration. A special section is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012145458
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Time-space dynamics of return and circular migration : theories and evidence
Constant, Amelie - 2020
migration by bringing together the perspectives of the host and the home country. In this endeavor, it reviewed and evaluated … phenomena of return, circular and onward migration. It emphasized commonalities and compared differences in findings, while … heterogeneous people and cannot conform under one theory or empirical study. Their de facto migration comportment can be understood …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012147375
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The impact of immigration and integration policies on immigrant-native labor market hierarchies
Guzi, Martin; Kahanec, Martin; Kureková, Lucia Mýtna - 2022
, signifying widespread labor market hierarchies. While significant resources have been invested in migration and integration …
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Healthcare quality and dementia risk
Aravena, José M.; Chen, Xi; Levy, Becca R. - 2024
Low healthcare quality has been found to predict the development of several illnesses in older adults, while the evidence on dementia is still lacking. This study assesses whether and to what extent experiencing low healthcare quality can be associated with developing dementia in people...
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Longer school schedules, childcare and the quality of mothers' employment : evidence from school reform in Chile
Berthelon, Matias; Kruger, Diana; Lauer, Catalina; … - 2020
Ample empirical evidence has found that access to childcare for preschool children increases mothers' labor force participation and employment. In this paper, we investigate whether increased childcare for primary school children improves the quality of jobs mothers find by estimating the causal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012208607
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Linguistic traits and human capital formation
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer; Sarid, Assaf - 2020
This research establishes empirically that existing cross-language variations in the structure of the future tense and the presence of grammatical gender affected human capital accumulation. Exploiting variations in the dominant languages among migrants from the same countries of origin, the...
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