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The jury is still out on the need for government-organized capacity markets in order to achieve efficient long-run investments in electricity generation. When new capacity markets are introduced, however, it is important that they are well designed and take account of existing experience and...
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return motivations of a national sample of Australian immigrants. On average, a 10% favorable exchange rate shock (a …
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inequality of immigrants’ and natives’ earnings changed over time. We decompose earnings inequality to explore how the changes in … immigrants’ share of the labor force have affected earnings inequality. We find that the increase in overall inequality can be … is due to the expansion of between-group variance caused by the large inflow of low-income immigrants from developing …
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-generation immigrants relatively to natives for the French case. We use the Training and Occupational Skills survey to conduct our … econometric analysis, where we distinguish the natives, the second-generation immigrants from ‘North Africa’ and from ‘Southern … Europe’ origins. We don’t observe striking differences in the determinants between the second-generation immigrants as a …
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-group discrimination of 7034 immigrants from 177 different countries of origin in 14 European Union countries. In addition to testing the … countries. The migration history of these groups is also relevant for the perceived discrimination: immigrants who are citizens …-group discrimination less often. There are strong effects of the macro-characteristics of the country of origin. Immigrants from poorer …
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The average household income of first generation immigrants in Europe and North-America is lower than that of natives … above all true for immigrants, coming from the second- or third world, who have also a lower return of their education …. These arrears in income of immigrants vary between countries of destination, also after control for the individual …
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In this paper we analyze the attitudes of 14 year old children of first and second generation immigrants and their … positive attitudes towards immigrants, positive attitudes towards one’s nation of residence positive attitudes towards women … immigrants, stronger negative attitudes towards women’s political and economic rights, stronger negative attitudes towards the …
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from the Current Population Survey, we show that between 1994 and 2008 the national poverty rate of immigrants fell three … times faster than that of natives (5.4 compared to 1.8 percentage points). The poverty rate of recent immigrants (those in … natives and immigrants depend on micro factors such as individual characteristics and macro factors such as business cycle in …
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Since 2002, the British Government department responsible for immigration, the Home Office, has claimed immigrants pay … additional infrastructure investments that immigrants necessitate (no small omission). The conventional wisdom is that funding … business assets that immigrants necessitate. The important distinction is not between public and private sector assets, but …
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Amount of consuming imported goods is thought to influence consumer’s view and attitude toward the country which export the goods. This paper examines effect of viewing Japanese animation on attitude towards Japan in Korea. Major findings are that the more frequently adult Korean view Japanese...
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