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Immigrant Concentration at School and Natives' Achievement : Does the Type of Migrants and Natives Matter?
Bossavie, Laurent - 2017
concentration of migrants with low parental education, while migrants with high parental education are found to have no impact. The …
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Peer Effects and Students’ Self-Control
Buechel, Berno; Mechtenberg, Lydia; Petersen, Julia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
We conducted a multi-wave field experiment to study the interaction of peer effects and self-control among undergraduate students. We use a behavioral measure of self-control based on whether students achieve study related goals they have set for themselves. We find that both self-control and...
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Group Norms and Consumer Behaviour
Pillai, Rajasekharan; Rajan, Jainey S.; Variyamveettil, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The impact of group norms on forming consumer behaviour is an important attribute of man’s social life. The market segmentation principles acknowledge the presence of this phenomenon. People belong to different age group, professional status, income levels, educational status etc. are seemed...
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Smoking behavior in Vietnam: demographic and socioeconomic determinants
cuong, nguyen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Smoking is a leading cause for diseases and death. Information on factors affecting the smoking status is useful for … policies on smoking reduction, especially in developing countries. This paper examines to what extent individuals …’ characteristics can affect the smoking status using a household survey in Vietnam. It is found that gender and age are the most …
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Maternal prenatal substance use and behavior problems among children in the U.S.
Sen, Bisakha; Swaminathan, Shailender - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Prenatal exposure to smoking and alcohol-use is found to be correlated with various adverse consequences for children … Longitudinal Survey (CNLSY). Specifically, we investigate whether prenatal cigarette use and alcohol-use affect children’s behavior … are used to minimize bias from confounding factors. Our results suggest that the relationship between prenatal smoking and …
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Bariery i perspektywy integracji międzypokoleniowej we współczesnej Polsce
Klimczuk, Andrzej - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Obywatelskie nieuczestnictwo w życiu publicznym należy do najważniejszych problemów współczesnej Polski. Zjawisko to czyni wszystkie poko-lenia równymi, a przeciwstawienie się mu wymaga przełamania barier integracji międzypokoleniowej. Niniejsze opracowanie wskazuje, iż dążenie do...
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Precarity – Logical Consequence of Societies that Lost the Social
Herrmann, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
The essay proposes an alternative understanding of social policy, focussing on social quality and as such bringing together biographical and societal development and as well institutional and communal concerns. On this basis the author proposes a definition of precarity that goes far beyond...
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Social responsibility as an obligatory element of the institutional system
Filippova, Irina; Sumcov, Victor - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The institute of social responsibility is considered as mandatory addition of market and state institutes, since it reduces the transaction costs of the socio-economic system by eliminating discrimination in the relations. One of the most important missions of the state is the formation and...
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Wiekizm jako przeszkoda w budowie społeczeństwa mądrości
Klimczuk, Andrzej - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Ocena obecności ludzi starych w społeczeństwie zależy od tempa rozwoju technologicznego i gospodarczego. Szybkie zmiany sprzyjają dyskryminacji ze względu na wiek oraz przyczyniają się do niedostrzegania jednostkowych i zbiorowych korzyści płynących ze wzrostu długości życia...
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The Return Motivations of Legal Permanent Migrants: Evidence from Exchange Rate Shocks and Immigrants in Australia
Abarcar, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Why do legal permanent migrants return to their home countries? How do home country conditions influence this decision … depreciation in the home country currency) leads to a reduced likelihood of return of 0.37 percentage points for migrants. The … reject the theory that migrants are target earners who seek to invest upon return home. …
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