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Gender differences in native preferences towards undocumented and legal immigration: evidence from San Diego
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Puttitanun, Thitima - 2009
The literature has noted that native views about legal as opposed to undocumented immigration in the U.S. differ. Furthermore, native views about immigration are known to vary by gender. Yet, most surveys do not inquire native men and women about their views with regards to the two distinct...
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Labor-market exposure as a determinant of attitudes toward immigration
Ortega, Francesc; Polavieja, Javier G. - 2009
This paper re-examines the role of labor-market competition as a determinant of attitudes toward immigration. We claim two main contributions. First, we use more sophisticated measures of the degree of exposure to competition from immigrants than previously done. Specifically, we focus on the...
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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...
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Why are people more pro-trade than pro-migration?
Mayda, Anna Maria - 2007
I analyze individual attitudes towards trade and immigration in comparative terms. I find that individuals are on average more pro-trade than pro-immigration across several countries. I identify a key source of this difference: the cleavage in trade preferences, absent in immigration attitudes,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268096
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Joblessness and perceptions about the effectiveness of democracy
Altindag, Duha; Mocan, H. Naci - 2010
Using micro data on more than 130,000 individuals from 69 countries, we analyze the extent to which joblessness of the individuals and the prevailing unemployment rate in the country impact perceptions of the effectiveness of democracy. We find that personal joblessness experience translates...
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Inequality and union membership: the impact of relative earnings position and inequality attitudes
Checchi, Daniele; Visser, Jelle; van de Werfhorst, Herman G. - 2007
In this paper we examine the connection between union membership and economic inequality. Using several surveys from the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) covering the period 1985-2002, we initially examine the impact of relative earnings position on union membership and show that...
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The "Out of Africa" hypothesis, human genetic diversity, and comparative economic development
Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2012
This research argues that deep-rooted factors, determined tens of thousands of years ago, had a significant effect on the course of economic development from the dawn of human civilization to the contemporary era. It advances and empirically establishes the hypothesis that in the course of the...
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Exploitation Aversion: When Financial Incentives Fail to Motivate Agents
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Dolifka, David - 2013
Empirical studies of the principal-agent relationship find that extrinsic incentives work in many instances, linking rewards to performance increases effort, but that they can also backfire, reducing effort. Intrinsic motivation, the internal drive to work to master a skill or to improve one's...
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Exploitation Aversion: When Financial Incentives Fail to Motivate Agents
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Dolifka, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Empirical studies of the principal-agent relationship find that extrinsic incentives work in many instances, linking rewards to performance increases effort, but that they can also backfire, reducing effort. Intrinsic motivation, the internal drive to work to master a skill or to improve one's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010680481
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Demographic alternatives for aging industrial countries: increased total fertility rate, labor force participation, or immigration
Holzmann, Robert - 2005
The paper investigates the demographic alternatives for dealing with the projected population aging and low or negative … growth of the population and labor force in the North. Without further immigration, the total labor force in Europe and … replacement levels, increasing labor force participation of the existing population through a variety of measures, and filling the …
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