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Did Latvia's public works program mitigate the impact of the 2008 - 2010 crisis?
Azam, Mehtabul; Ferré, Céline; Ajwad, Mohamed Ihsan - 2012
To mitigate the impact of the 2008-2010 global financial crisis on vulnerable households, the Government of Latvia … dearth of income-generating opportunities in Latvia; thus the program provided temporary employment opportunities and helped … the unemployed mitigate the impact of the crisis. However, relative to the depth of the crisis in Latvia, the Workplaces …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287641
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Who Is Against Immigration? : A Cross-Country Investigation of Individual Attitudes toward Immigrants
Mayda, Anna Maria - 2004
This paper empirically analyzes both economic and non-economic determinants of attitudes toward immigrants, within and across countries. The two individual-level survey data sets used, covering a wide range of developed and developing countries, make it possible to test for interactive effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261871
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Wealth and asset holdings of immigrants in Germany
Sinning, Mathias - 2007
-ownership rates are responsible for the main part of the overall wealth gap. Moreover, migrants' degree of portfolio diversification …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268158
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Social deprivation and exclusion of immigrants in Germany
Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Sinning, Mathias - 2007
This paper aims at providing empirical evidence on social exclusion of immigrants in Germany. We demonstrate that when using a conventional definition of the social inclusion index typically applied in the literature, immigrants appear to experience a significant degree of social deprivation and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268244
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International migration, transfers of norms and home country fertility
Beine, Michel; Docquier, Frédéric; Schiff, Maurice - 2008
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/10010269132
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Source country characteristics and immigrants' migration duration and saving decisions
Kirdar, Murat G. - 2010
This paper examines how immigrants' migration duration and saving decisions in the host country respond to the purchasing power parity (ppp) and the wage ratio between the host and source countries. It is shown that in theory immigrants may stay longer in the host country as a result of an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269783
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Neighborhood diversity and the appreciation of native- and immigrant-owned homes
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Sinning, Mathias G. - 2009
This paper examines the effect of neighborhood diversity on the nativity gap in home-value appreciation in Australia. Specifically, immigrant homeowners experienced a 41.7 percent increase in median home values between 2001 and 2006, while the median value of housing owned by the native-born...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271300
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Immigrant Adjustment in France and Impacts on the Natives
Constant, Amelie F. - 2003
The purpose of this paper is to study the immigrant performance in France and the impacts on the natives by drawing on research findings from the existing academic literature on the economics of French migration. The research questions are: how do immigrants fare with respect to wages,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272290
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Savings, asset holdings, and temporary migration
Dustmann, Christian; Mestres, Josep - 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/10010278474
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The returns to language skills in the US labor market
Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Sinning, Mathias - 2012
adult migrants in the US labor market. We employ an instrumental variable strategy, which exploits differences in language … important channel through which language skills affect wages of child migrants. Although the returns of adult migrants do not … depend on education, we find that child and adult migrants exhibit similar returns to language skills. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291444