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Remittances and gender: Theoretical considerations and empirical evidence
Holst, Elke; Schäfer, Andrea; Schrooten, Mechthild - 2011
be explained by the underlying transnational network contract. Second, remittances sent by foreigners and naturalized …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274695
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Quotas and quality: The effect of H-1B visa restrictions on the pool of prospective undergraduate students from abroad
Kato, Takao; Sparber, Chad - 2010
In deliberating whether to pursue an undergraduate education in the US, a foreign student takes into consideration the expected probability of securing US employment after graduation. The H-1B visa provides a primary means of legal employment for college-educated foreign-nationals. In October...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269823
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Population Prospects and the Determination of a Debt-Sharing Rule between Seceding Regions
Cattoir, Philippe; Docquier, Frédéric - 2004
This paper investigates one of the most important financial issues arising from a secession or a country partitioning namely the sharing of the national public debt. Extending Dr?ze's distributive neutrality condition, we use the generational accounting technique and propose a dynamic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261790
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The Deterrent Effect of Voting Against Minarets: Identity Utility and Foreigners' Location Choice
Slotwinski, Michaela; Stutzer, Alois - 2015
negative attitudes towards immigrants on foreigners' location choices and thus indirectly on their utility. Based on a … regression discontinuity design with unknown discontinuity points and administrative data on the population of foreigners, we … identity utility for immigrants in general, the reaction is not confined to Muslims, whereby high-skilled foreigners seem to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401755
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Economic Well-being and Anti-Semitic, Xenophobic, and Racist Attitudes in Germany
Mocan, Hüseyin Naci; Raschke, Christian - 2014
xenophobic feelings towards foreigners in general, and against specific groups such as Italians and Turks. We also analyze racist …. Education, and having contact with foreigners mitigate racist, anti-Semitic and xenophobic feelings. People who live in states … for German males, and they are not fully driven by fears about foreigners taking away jobs. The results of the paper are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352302
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The Rise and Fall of Swiss Unemployment: Relative Demand Shocks, Wage Rigidities, and Temporary Immigrants
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2003
Switzerland, traditionally a ?zero unemployment? economy, has seen an unprecedented rise in joblessness in the 1990s although unemployment fell again to a rather low level after 1997. This paper tests whether Switzerland experienced a negative relative net demand shock against the low skilled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262112
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The Rise and Fall of Swiss Unemployment: Relative Demand Shocks, Wage Rigidities, and Temporary Immigrants
Puhani, Patrick A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
Switzerland, traditionally a ‘zero unemployment’ economy, has seen an unprecedented rise in joblessness in the 1990s although unemployment fell again to a rather low level after 1997. This paper tests whether Switzerland experienced a negative relative net demand shock against the low...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761695
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Taxation and Internal Migration: Evidence from the Swiss Census Using Community-Level Variation in Income Tax Rates
Liebig, Thomas; Puhani, Patrick A.; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
revenue-increasing effect of a rise in tax rate. The migratory responses of foreigners and other age-education groups are even …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762289
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Economic Well-being and Anti-Semitic, Xenophobic, and Racist Attitudes in Germany
Mocan, Naci; Raschke, Christian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
xenophobic feelings towards foreigners in general, and against specific groups such as Italians and Turks. We also analyze racist …. Education, and having contact with foreigners mitigate racist, anti-Semitic and xenophobic feelings. People who live in states … for German males, and they are not fully driven by fears about foreigners taking away jobs. The results of the paper are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010764624
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Remittances and Gender: Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Evidence
Holst, Elke; Schäfer, Andrea; Schrooten, Mechthild - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
be explained by the underlying transnational network contract. Second, remittances sent by foreigners and naturalized …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008836668