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migrations. Here I focus on the period 1850 to 1940 and chiefly on migration from Europe to the New World. The survey is …
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and the other major branches of World Jewry is discussed from an economic perspective. The economic underpinnings of …
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In this essay I review Sylvia Nasar's long awaited new history of economics, Grand Pursuit. I describe how the book is an economic history of the period from 1850-1950, with distinguished economists' stories inserted in appropriate places. Nasar's goal is to show how economists work, but also to...
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France has experienced massive changes in its regulation of working time during the last decade. These changes generate …
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This paper studies the evolution of the residential segregation of immigrants between and within urban areas in France …
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-negligible importance in explaining international heterogeneity in happiness. In some countries, such as France, they are responsible for 80 …
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Anti-Muslim prejudice is widespread in Western countries. Yet, Muslims are expected to constitute a growing share of the total population in Western countries over the next decades. This paper predicts that this demographic trend will increase anti-Muslim prejudice. Relying on experimental games...
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national origin and ethnicity, and on experimental as well as survey evidence collected in France, puts this syllogism to a …
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. Survey and experimental data collected in France in 2009 reveal that Muslims and rooted French are locked in a sub …
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centuries. It begins with a review of the history of primarily trans-Atlantic migration to the New World during the period of … Oceania and from parts of Asia (primarily India, China and Japan) to other parts of Asia, Africa and the New World. World wars …, immigration restrictions and the Great Depression resulted in a period of low international migration (1913 to 1945). In the post-World …
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