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identical countries induces a relocation of firms which increases with the level of economic integration as measured by trade … the level of integration is shown to be bell-shaped. …
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Acknowledging that individuals dislike having low relative income renders trade less attractive when seen as a technology that integrates two economies by merging separate social spheres into one. We define a "trembling trade" as a situation in which gains from trade are less than losses in...
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identical countries induces a relocation of firms which increases with the level of economic integration as measured by trade … the level of integration is shown to be bellshaped. …
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We examine Singapore's fairly homogeneous private-housing market and show that new apartments on historical multi-century leases trade at a non-zero discount relative to property owned in perpetuity. Descriptive regressions indicate that new apartments with 825 to 986 years of tenure remaining...
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We document the educational integration of immigrant children with a focus on the link between family size and …
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facilitating and speeding up the integration of refugees and their family into the labor market and the society. From December 1 …, 2010 the reform transferred the responsibility for the integration of newly-arrived refugees from the municipalities to the … was motived by concern over the low employment level and slow integration of refugees. Our approach is to compare the …
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establishment of refugees and their family. From December 1, 2010 the reform transferred the responsibility for the integration of … employment level and slow integration of refugees. Our approach is to compare the outcomes of the Treatment group, which took …
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their labour market and social integration outcomes. Language proficiency appears ranked according to linguistic distance to … on two objective indicators of integration (employment and income) and two subjective measures (feeling Dutch and feeling … for endogeneity, effects of Dutch language proficiency on social and economic integration of immigrants are more than …
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Integration of immigrants is a two-way process involving immigrants and the host country society. An underexplored … question is how events of xenophobic violence in the host country affect the integration of immigrants. For this purpose, I …-economic integration of immigrants. In particular, it reduces subjective well-being and increases return intentions, while it reduces …
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integration as foreigners. A majority of young Ethnic Germans have no cultural or language ties to Germany. Insufficient language …
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