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Network Effects, Ethnic Capital and Immigrants' Earnings Assimilation: Evidence from a Spatial, Hausman-Taylor Estimation
Maani, Sholeh A.; Wang, Xingang; Rogers, Alan - 2015
Do ethnic enclaves assist or hinder immigrants in their economic integration? In this paper we examine the effect of 'ethnic capital' (e.g. ethnic network and ethnic concentration) on immigrants' earnings assimilation. We adopt a "spatial autoregressive network approach" to construct a dynamic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011345359
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Ethnic Regional Networks and Immigrants' Earnings: A Spatial Autoregressive Network Approach
Wang, Xingang; Maani, Sholeh A. - 2021
The conventional model of immigrant earnings does not account for the correlation of outcomes across immigrant ethnic networks. We apply a spatial autoregressive network approach to account for the spill-over effects of migrant ethnic group economic resources and labour market outcomes. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882438
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The Long Run Gender Origins of Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Australia's Convict History
Awaworyi Churchill, Sefa; Chang, Simon; Smyth, Russell; … - 2024
This paper extends prior theory linking present-day sex ratios to present-day propensity for entrepreneurship among men backward in time to explore the long-run gender origins of entrepreneurship. We argue that present-day propensity for entrepreneurship among men will be higher in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015061940
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Surfing alone? The Internet and social capital ; evidence from an unforeseeable technological mistake
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Woessmann, Ludger - 2011
Does the Internet undermine social capital or facilitate inter-personal and civic engagement in the real world? Merging … unique telecommunication data with geo-coded German individual-level data, we investigate how broadband Internet affects …-owned telecommunication provider in the 1990s that still hinders broadband Internet access for many households. We find no evidence that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278497
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The Behavioral, Economic, and Political Impact of the Internet and Social Media: Empirical Challenges and Approaches
Sabatini, Fabio - 2023
Internet and social media usage. Instead of merely surveying the various impacts of the Internet, we examine the methods … limitations. The first approach involves searching for exogenous sources of variation in the access to fast Internet or specific … natural or quasi-experiments for identifying the causal impact of high-speed Internet or specific social media. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469631
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Surfing Alone? The Internet and Social Capital: Evidence from an Unforeseeable Technological Mistake
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Wößmann, Ludger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Does the Internet undermine social capital or facilitate inter-personal and civic engagement in the real world? Merging … unique telecommunication data with geo-coded German individual-level data, we investigate how broadband Internet affects …-owned telecommunication provider in the 1990s that still hinders broadband Internet access for many households. We find no evidence that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009416938
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The demand for cigarettes as derived from the demand for weight control
Cawley, John H.; von Hinke Kessler Scholder, Stephanie - 2013
We provide new evidence on the extent to which the demand for cigarettes is derived from the demand for weight control (i.e. weight loss or avoidance of weight gain). We utilize nationally representative data that provide the most direct evidence to date on this question: individuals are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293239
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National Well-being Policy and a Weighted Approach to Human Feelings
O'Donnell, Gus; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2015
Governments are becoming interested in the concept of human well-being and how truly to assess it. As an alternative to traditional economic measures, some nations have begun to collect information on citizens' happiness, life satisfaction, and other psychological scores. Yet how could such data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401666
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Euroskepticism in the Crisis: More Mood than Economy
Ritzen, Jo; Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Wehner, Caroline - 2014
Before the Great Recession, rising income inequality within the European Union member states has been considered to be one driver for an increasing Euroskepticism. Using rich data on attitudes towards European integration from the Eurobarometer (EB) surveys, we revisit the issue by analyzing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333236
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The Effect of Economic Change and Elite Framing on Economic Preferences: A Survey Experiment
Marx, Paul; Schumacher, Gijs - 2014
An unresolved question in political science is how economic downturns affect citizens' economic left-right preferences. Existing observational studies fail to isolate the effect of economic conditions and the effect of elite framing of these conditions. We therefore designed a survey experiment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333261