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Savings, Asset Holdings, and Temporary Migration
Dustmann, Christian - 2011
This paper analyzes savings and asset holdings of immigrants in relation to their return plans. We argue that savings and asset accumulation may be affected by return plans of immigrants. Further, the way savings and assets are held in the home- and host country may also be related to future...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129924
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Exporting Poor Health : The Irish in England
Delaney, Liam - 2011
The Irish-born population in England is in worse health than both the native population and the Irish population in … Ireland, however, are healthier than the English population. The substantial Irish health penalty arises principally for … differences between the Irish-born migrants and White English populations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122117
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Disparities in Social Assistance Receipt between Immigrants and Natives in Sweden
Gustafsson, Björn - 2014
percent of the population. While some part of the high costs can be attributed to needs to maintaining recent refugees, this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013067085
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The Impact of Amnesty on Labor Market Outcomes : A Panel Study Using the Legalized Population Survey
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina - 2014
amnesty on the legalized population relative to a comparison group. After the implementation of the amnesty program … market outcomes of the legalized population. Using the Legalized Population Survey (LPS) and the National Longitudinal Survey …, employment fell and unemployment rose for newly legalized men relative to the comparison group of already legal U.S. residents …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068380
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Social Housing and Location Choices of Immigrants in France
Fougère, Denis - 2014
, we use individual information coming from large (one-fourth) extracts of the French population censuses conducted by … INSEE (Paris) in 1982, 1990, and 1999. Our estimates show that, in general, migrants live more frequently in social housing … than French natives, other observables being equal. In particular, this probability is higher for migrants from Turkey …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068381
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International Migration, Transfers of Norms and Home Country Fertility
Beine, Michel A. R. - 2009
original and detailed data on migration. Our results provide evidence of a strong transfer of fertility norms from migrants to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012765320
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The 'Out of Africa' Hypothesis, Human Genetic Diversity, and Comparative Economic Development
Ashraf, Quamrul H. - 2012
This research argues that deep-rooted factors, determined tens of thousands of years ago, had a significant effect on the course of economic development from the dawn of human civilization to the contemporary era. It advances and empirically establishes the hypothesis that in the course of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013110850
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Family Ties and Political Participation
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2009
We establish an inverse relationship between family ties, generalized trust and political participation. The more individuals rely on the family as a provider of services, insurance, transfer of resources, the lower is civic engagement and political participation. The latter, together with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159947
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Ethnic Persistence, Assimilation and Risk Proclivity
Bonin, Holger - 2007
adaptation to the attitudes of the majority population closes the immigrant-native gap in risk proclivity, while stronger …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777919
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Immigration and the Evolution of Local Cultural Norms
Schmitz, Sophia - 2019
migrated to the West after reunification. These migrants grew up with very high rates of maternal employment, whereas West …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012864864