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Which factors explain the rising ethnic heterogeneity in Italy? : an empirical analysis at province level
Cattaneo, Cristina - 2014
The paper investigates the determinants of ethnic heterogeneity of the Italian provinces. Among other factors, the paper tests empirically whether gradual improvements in distant communication boost the generation of ethnically heterogeneous provinces. Consequently to easier communication,...
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Commuting in Europe: an inter-regional analysis on its determinants and spatial effects
Castelli, Chiara; Parenti, Angela - 2020
Commuting shapes countless everyday-lives around the world, with dynamics varying from city to regional and cross regional level. Taking as reference the free-movement EU-28 area (plus Switzerland and Norway), the analysis considers a total sample of 195 NUTS2 regions over the decade 2007-2017...
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Labour market dynamics in Australia : what drives unemployment
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector - 2009
The debate in Australia on the (constant-output) elasticity of labour demand with respect to wages has wrongly sidelined the role of capital stock as a determinant of employment (Webster, 2003). As far back as 1991, Pissarides had argued that the influence of capital stock on the performance of...
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Is the melting pot still hot? : explaining the resurgence of immigrant segregation
Cutler, David M.; Glaeser, Edward L.; Vigdor, Jacob L. - In: The review of economics and statistics 90 (2008) 3, pp. 478-497
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Gender, selection into employment, and the wage impact of immigration
Borjas, George J.; Edo, Anthony - 2021
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Does birthplace diversity affect economic complexity? : cross-country evidence
Bahar, Dany; Rapoport, Hillel; Turati, Riccardo - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012243536
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Wage differences between immigrants and natives in Austria : the role of literacy skills
Christl, Michael; Köppl-Turyna, Monika; Gnan, Phillipp - 2017
This paper analyzes wage differences between natives and immigrants in Austria. First, we show that for both groups, literacy skills are an important determinant of the hourly wage. In the second step, we show that differences in proficiency with respect to literacy can explain more than three...
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Barriers to immigrant assimilation evidence on grading bias in Ecuadorian high schools
Rangel, Marcos A.; Marotta, Luana; Van der Werf, Cynthia; … - 2024
We investigate the assimilation of immigrant youth in Ecuador. Focusing on formal schooling and employing … administrative data from high schools, we document subtle ways by which assessment biases against students with an immigrant … immigrant families. We show that these results are robust with respect to the omission of socio-emotional and behavioral traits …
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Are household surveys like tax forms? : evidence from income underreporting of the self-employed
Hurst, Erik; Li, Geng; Pugsley, Benjamin - In: The review of economics and statistics 96 (2014) 1, pp. 19-33
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Institutions and financial development : evidence from international migrants in the United States
Osili, Una Okonkwo; Paulson, Anna Louise - In: The review of economics and statistics 90 (2008) 3, pp. 498-517
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