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This thesis consists of three essays on the economic and cultural integration of migrants in Switzerland, reverse causation between these two dimensions of the integration process, and the role of host society culture. Whereas each dimension is usually examined separately, this study proposes a...
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establishing themselves and their children in comparison with immigrants in the traditional immigration countries, like the USA. …
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Civil war in Syria, which started in March 2011, has led to a massive wave of forced immigration from the Northern … immigration has considerably affected the employment outcomes of natives, while its impact on wage outcomes has been negligible …
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This paper contrasts the explanatory power of the mono-cultural and diversity models of racial disparity. The mono-cultural model ignores nativity and ethnic differences among African Americans. The diversity model assumes that culture affects both intra- and interracial labor market disparity....
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as “not exorbitant by any means” (August Gachter, Bulgarian Emigration and Immigration, June 2001) compared to that in … interaction and access to new ideas and achievements prove to be important for the decision to emigrate. Immigration policies of … framework of immigration and strengthening the control on the illegal inflow into the labour market have been major policy …
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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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Training programs are an important tool of human resource management, especially in case of technological and organizational changes inside a company. According to the human capital theory, trainings generally lead to increased post-training wages. Having this into consideration, this paper aims...
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The research work contains analisys of migration processes in Leningrad region and Vyborg. It also contains results of sociological head count of local population attitude towards migrants.
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This study reviews a host of issues related to international migration in Sub-Saharan Africa and presents an overview of the state of the art of research and knowl-edge. Its aim is to identify policies and research areas that will improve understanding and management of migration in Sub-Sahara...
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This multi-faceted study address a variety of topics. It first develops a formal model of why interregional wage differentials may not elicit interregional migration. Then it provides empirical support for the model. The study develops a formal model general theory of migration. It demonstrates...
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