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European Social Survey data on 30 countries, covering years 2004-2009, are used to look into joint institutional [and other macro] determinants of the rates of dependent employment without a contract, informal self-employment, and unemployment (secondary jobs are not accounted for). Consistently...
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This paper explores one potentially important channel through which immigration may drive support for extreme right-wing parties: the presence of immigrants in one's neighborhood. We study the case of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ). Under the leadership of Jörg Haider, this party increased...
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Immigration has increasingly taken centre-stage in the political landscape. Part of this has been rise in far-right, anti-immigration parties in a range of countries. Existing evidence suggests that the presence of immigrants has a substantial effect on the political views of the electorate,...
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We combine community-level outcomes of 27 votes about immigration issues in Switzerland with census data to estimate the effect of immigration on natives' attitudes towards immigration. We apply an instrumental variable approach to take potentially endogenous locational choices into account, and...
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Three decades ago, Sweden extended municipal and county voting privileges to non-citizen residents arguing that it would increase political influence, interest and self-esteem among foreign citizens. Three decades later, electoral participation on the part of immigrants is perceived as being...
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Poland has traditionally been treated as an emigration country. Since recently Poland has been changing into an … on immigration to Poland and instruments of integration policy in the context of the existing institutional framework. We … propose also recommendations for the pre-integration and integration policy in Poland. The goal of the paper is modest since …
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theoretical and empirical discussion.The aim of the article is to assess patterns of remittances sent by Ukrainian migrants … staying in Poland, to identify the main motives to remit and thus to understand mechanisms governing this process. The article … particular motives to remit) and the type of mobility. Particularly, temporary migrants are expected to remit more likely …
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are negligible or even insignificant for the highly skilled migrants from Poland to the UK. These results hold for both …We test if migration leads to increased wages. We take the example of Polish migrants to the United Kingdom and focus … on the mobility of well educated Poles. We offer insights into absolute and relative change in wages of the migrants …
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job satisfaction. Migrants who started a gig job immediately after arriving in Poland are particularly deprived. They also …, quantitative survey in Poland, we study taxi and delivery platform drivers' working conditions and job quality. We focus on the … gaps between natives and migrants, who constitute about a third of gig workers. Migrants take up gig jobs due to a lack of …
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Recent studies show that firms are playing an increasingly important role in shaping wage inequality in advanced economies. We contribute to this literature by analysing wage inequality patterns and their firm dimension in Central and Eastern European countries. We use large, linked...
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