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Sibling Rivalry in Educational Attainment: The German Case

Bauer, Thomas K.; Gang, Ira N. - 2000

Recent studies exploring sibling rivalry in the allocation of household resources in the U.S. produce conflicting …

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The Influence of Others on Migration Plans

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2004

?other people?, such as family and friends, are migrants, former migrants, or potential migrants themselves. We examine the …

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What are Migration Networks?

Bauer, Thomas K.; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2000

Migration networks are usually captured by the number of people from the migrant?s country in the host region. Using Mexican migration data, we analyze the effects of the usual network variable and two additional origin-village-specific variables on migrants? location choice.

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Revealed informal activity

Dimova, Ralitza; Gang, Ira N.; Landon-Lane, John - 2011

What does it mean to be in the informal sector? Many characterizations have been used in the literature, for example, firms that are unregistered or employ a small workforce or firms/economic enterprises that do not have access to formal capital markets. But many people participate in both...

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Where to Work? The Role of the Household in Explaining Gender Differences in Labour Market Outcomes

Dimova, Ralitza; Gang, Ira N.; Landon-Lane, John - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

With the use of panel data constructed from the 1995 and 1997 Bulgarian Integrated Household Surveys, this paper … standing, allowing us to concentrate our attention on the impact of individual and household characteristics in explaining … gender differences in the labour market. We find that household characteristics, rather than alternative explanations such as …

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Economic Strain, Ethnic Concentration and Attitudes Towards Foreigners in the European Union

Gang, Ira N.; Rivera-Batiz, Francisco L.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2002

This paper provides a statistical analysis of the determinants of attitudes towards foreigners displayed by Europeans sampled in Eurobarometer surveys in 1988 and 1997. Europeans who compete with immigrants in the labor market have more negative attitudes towards foreigners. In addition, an...

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Immigrants and Unemployment in the European Community: From the Eyes of Natives

Gang, Ira N.; Rivera-Batiz, Francisco L.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 1999

This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the European Union. Earlier papers measure the presence of immigrants in the local labor market by computing the share of the foreigners in specific regions. This paper, instead, utilizes...

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