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Hate is too great a burden to bear: Hate crimes and the mental health of refugees
Graeber, Daniel; Schikora, Felicitas - 2021
Against a background of increasing violence against non-natives, we estimate the effect of hate crime on refugees' mental health in Germany. For this purpose, we combine two datasets: administrative records on xenophobic crime against refugee shelters by the Federal Criminal Office and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012520403
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Economic growth evens-out happiness: Evidence from six surveys
Clark, Andrew E.; Fléche, Sarah; Senik, Claudia - 2014
In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality has dropped in countries that have experienced income growth (but not in those that did not). Modern growth has reduced the share of both the very unhappy and the perfectly happy....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334229
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Between life cycle model, labor market integration and discrimination: An econometric analysis of the determinants of return migration
Schuss, Eric - 2016
This paper studies the determinants of return migration by applying the Cox hazard model to longitudinal micro data … life cycle model of Migration Economics and a strong return probability decreasing effect of labor market integration and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011594500
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Does Relative Income Matter? Are the Critics Right?
Layard, Richard; Mayraz, Guy; Nickell, Stephen - 2009
Do other peoples' incomes reduce the happiness which people in advanced countries experience from any given income? And does this help to explain why in the U.S., Germany and some other advanced countries, happiness has been constant for many decades? The answer to both questions is "Yes". We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600854
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The economics of temporary migrations
Dustmann, Christian; Görlach, Joseph-Simon - 2015
Many migrations are temporary - a fact that has often been ignored in the economic literature on migration. Such … omission may be serious in that expected migration temporariness can impart a distinct dynamic element to immigrants' economic … demonstrate the extent of temporary migrations in population movements. We show how temporariness can affect the various economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010475153
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The great happiness moderation
Clark, Andrew E.; Flèche, Sarah; Senik, Claudia - 2012
This paper shows that within-country happiness inequality has fallen in the majority of countries that have experienced positive income growth over the last forty years, in particular in developed countries. This new stylized fact comes as an addition to the Easterlin paradox, which states that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287229
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Refugees' and irregular migrants' self-selection into Europe: Who migrates where?
Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Poutvaara, Panu - 2020
crisis. Using unique datasets from the International Organization for Migration and Gallup World Polls, we provide the first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012167687
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Economic Growth Evens-out Happiness: Evidence from Six Surveys
Clark, Andrew E.; Flèche, Sarah; Senik, Claudia - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014
In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality has dropped in countries that have experienced income growth (but not in those that did not). Modern growth has reduced the share of both the "very unhappy" and the "perfectly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011267929
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Does Relative Income Matter?: Are the Critics Right?
Layard, Richard; Mayraz, Guy; Nickell, Stephen - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009
Do other peoples' incomes reduce the happiness which people in advanced countries experience from any given income? And does this help to explain why in the U.S., Germany and some other advanced countries, happiness has been constant for many decades? The answer to both questions is "Yes". We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017426
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The Economics of Temporary Migrations
Dustmann, Christian; Görlach, Joseph-Simon - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2015
Many migrations are temporary – a fact that has often been ignored in the economic literature on migration. Such … omission may be serious in that expected migration temporariness can impart a distinct dynamic element to immigrants’ economic … demonstrate the extent of temporary migrations in population movements. We show how temporariness can affect the various economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185776