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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011250907
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Integration of migrants in Italy: A simple general and objective measure
Di Bartolomeo, Anna; Di Bartolomeo, Giovanni - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Measuring migrants’ integration into host societies is a challenging task as, in general, measuring any social behavior … integration problem related to migrants’ polarization, cultural diversification, social stability, integration in the labor market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836821
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Voting over Selective Immigration Policies with Immigration Aversion
Russo, Giuseppe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The claim that "skilled immigration is welcome" is often associated to the increasing adoption of selective immigration policies. I study the voting over differentiated immigration policies in a two-country, three-factor general equilibrium model where there exist skilled and unskilled workers,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789819
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258941
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Ethnicity, Religion and Intercultural Dialogue in the European Border Space
Brie, Mircea - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Ethnicity and religious confession are concepts around which discussion and controversy arise, generating emotions and feelings of extreme intensity. Each of us belongs to such communities. By default, there is a strong pressure on us to be subjective. Intercultural dialogue can be successfully...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260357
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Frequency of contact with foreigners in a homogeneous society: perceived consequences of foreigner increases
Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Using individual data of Japan, this paper investigates how frequency of contact with foreigners is associated with the perceived outcomes of foreigner increases. Results showed that frequency of contact has a critical effect on perceptions and that its influence varies according to household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323652
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Frequency of contact with foreigners in a homogenous society: perceived consequences of foreigner increases in Japan
Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Using individual data of Japan, this paper investigates how frequency of contact with foreigners is associated with the perceived outcomes of foreigner increases. Results showed that frequency of contact has a critical effect on perceptions and that its influence varies according to household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008592953
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Negative selectivity of Europe’s guest-worker immigration?
Dronkers, Jaap; Heus, Manon de - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The aim of this paper is to empirically test the negative selectivity hypothesis as an explanation of the lower educational achievements of Turkish immigrant pupils. We do this by comparing educational achievement Turkish immigrant pupils in various European countries with the educational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008536052
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Frequency of contact with foreigners in a homogenous society: perceived consequences of foreigner increases in Japan.
Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Using individual data of Japan, this paper investigates how frequency of contact with foreigners is associated with the perceived outcomes of foreigner increases. Results showed that frequency of contact has a critical effect on perceptions and that its influence varies according to household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005622102
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A social proximity explanation of the reluctance to assimilate
Fan, C. Simon; Stark, Oded - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Quite often, migrants appear to exert little effort to absorb the mainstream culture and to learn the language of their … migrants’ comparing themselves more with the richer natives and less with fellow migrants, then the effort extended to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021976