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Large international differences in the price of labor can be sustained by differences between workers, or by natural and policy barriers to worker mobility. We use migrant selection theory and evidence to place lower bounds on the ad valorem equivalent of labor mobility barriers to the United...
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This paper revisits a part of the analysis by Banerjee et al. (2020), in which they examine the consequences of the nation-wide scale up of reforms to the funds management system (e-FMS) in India's national workfare programme, using a two-way fixed effects specification. They report a...
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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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Overall, children in Germany live in households with below average incomes; therefore social policies that address the vulnerable position of Germany?s children are necessary. These policies should cover targeted financial transfers as well as improvements in day care provision for children....
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Germany and Canada stand at polar ends of the scientific debate over language integration and ascension to citizenship …
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