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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012950369
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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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Meditation In The Emotional Intelligence Improvement Among Russian-Speakıng Migrants In Germany
Afanasyev, Sergey - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
were performed. Main features of the migrants’ social-psychological adaptation were considered. The key role of … interpersonal emotional intelligence competency in migrants’ social-psychological adaptation process was identified. The … interrelation between meditation practice and dynamics of migrants’ emotional intelligence was found. …
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Racial Disparities in Life Insurance Coverage
Harris, Timothy; Yelowitz, Aaron - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
We evaluate the extent to which there are racial disparities in life insurance coverage using multiple years of the Survey of Income and Program Participation between 2001 and 2010. We find that African-Americans hold significantly more life insurance after controlling for other factors,...
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Gender-based Segregation before and after the Great Recession
Humpert, Stephan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
Pooled international survey data is used to analyze occupational segregation in times of the great recession. Observing over 30 European economies and the United States over a time span of 10 years, I present evidence of a somehow surprising crisis effect on gender-based segregation. While all...
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Family and society in north-western Transylvania (2nd Half of the 19th century – beginning of the 20th century). General framework: concepts, methods and approaches
Brie, Mircea - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
In the latter half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, in north-western Transylvania there was a traditional rural society, except for some urban centres and their neighbouring areas (the urban character is also proved by the analysis of the marital behaviour). The village...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258867
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Ethno-Confessional Realities in the Romanian Area: Historical Perspectives (XVIII-XX centuries)
Brie, Mircea; Şipoş, Sorin; Horga, Ioan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Ethno-Confessional Realities in the Romanian Area: Historical Perspectives (XVII-XX Centuries) This present collective volume, coordinated by Mircea Brie, Sorin Şipoş and Ioan Horga, contains the papers of the international conference Ethnicity, Confession and Intercultural Dialogue at the...
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Board diversity and firm performance: the Indonesian evidence
Darmadi, Salim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper examines the associations between diversity of board members and financial performance of the firms listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX). Three demographic characteristics of board members—gender, nationality, and age—are used as the proxies for diversity. Using a sample...
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Why is the Workplace Racially Segregated by Occupation?
Naqvi, Nadeem - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Ken Arrow (1998) asks, “What has economics to say about racial discrimination?” He replies – entirely correctly – that racial “segregation within an industry – that is, firms with either all black or all white labor forces” – may be explained by economic theory, but “the...
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Rural Poverty in Jharkhand, India : An Empirical Study based on Panel Data
Singh, K.M.; Meena, M.S.; Singh, R.K.P.; Kumar, Abhay; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Jharkhand state is carved out from Bihar state in 2000. The state is rich in mineral resources and poor in agricultural production. More than 75% of work force is engaged in agriculture, but generates only 20% of state’s GDP. About 45% area is under non-agricultural use and 32% is culturable...
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