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carried out. It was found that both migrant home-country and host-country macroeconomic environment impact on remittance … inflows in SSA with a varying impact overtime. In absolute terms, generally, whilst the impact of real exchange rate, migrant …
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Using a rich dataset of primary school students in the Netherlands, this paper investigates the heterogeneous effects of immigrant concentration in the classroom on the academic achievement of natives. To identify the treatment effect, it takes advantage of some features of the Dutch primary...
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In this paper, an attempt has been made to identify the macroeconomic determinants of migrant remittances received in …, permanent and temporary migrants are likely to respond differently to macroeconomic conditions in migrant-host countries and … their native or migrant-home countries. For the empirical analysis, the system Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) approach …
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globalization on female employment in 33 OECD countries, using a pseudo micro panel on 110’000 persons from the World Values Survey … information exchange, increases employment probabilities of women. However, when accounting for sub-national regional differences …) increases female employment in a cross-country fashion. …
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This paper presents an empirical analysis of the macro employment effects of the federal Age Discrimination in … Employment Act as amended. The results indicate mixed effects on the legislation on older workers and workers of traditional …
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prerequisite for employment and its relevance for productivity and wages is magnified by the fact that it is only through literacy … that any observed raw employment and wage gaps between natives and migrants can be fully explained by these differences. …
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We study gender discrimination in hiring markets by sending 19,130 fictitious matched resumes in response to … professional employment advertisements posted on major Internet employment boards in China for positions such as engineers … discrimination. On the other hand, this evidence is consistent with statistics that describe discrimination based on gender …
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mitigating discrimination in employment. However, accounting for sub-national regional gender heterogeneity reveals that the … globalization on female employment in 30 OECD countries, using a micro pseudo panel of 110’000 persons derived from five waves of … the probability of employment for women – contradicting the Becker (1957)-hypothesis of international competition …
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economy in the middle of 2008. Crisis affects negatively almost all the fields of human life like development, employment …, living conditions. One of the states largely affected is Greece which reacted in order to face the negative effects In the … first part of this paper it is examined the character of the crisis and its consequences in Greece and in the second one it …
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This paper examines the spatial interaction of neighboring cities over their employment cycles. The cycles of …-similar employment cycles, but neighboring cities with similar racial compositions tend to have less-similar employment cycles …
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