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Social Network Sites, Individual Social Capital and Happiness
Arampatzi, Efstratia; Burger, Martijn J.; Novik, Natallia A. - 2016
Can online social contacts replace the importance of real-life social connections in our pursuit of happiness? With the growing use of social network sites (SNSs), attention has been increasingly drawn to this topic. Our study empirically examines the effect of SNS use on happiness for different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011586700
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Social Network Sites, Individual Social Capital and Happiness
Arampatzi, Efstratia; Burger, Martijn; Novik, Natallia - 2016
Can online social contacts replace the importance of real-life social connections in our pursuit of happiness? With the growing use of social network sites (SNSs), attention has been increasingly drawn to this topic. Our study empirically examines the effect of SNS use on happiness for different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014124858
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Voting from abroad: Assessing the impact of local turnout on migrants' voting behavior
Dev, Divya; Poblete-Cazenave, Rubén; Toppeta, Alessandro - 2021
welcoming to migrants. This suggests that integration into their local environment seems to play an important role on shaping …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012797245
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Unsuccessful subjective well-being assimilation among immigrants: The role of faltering perceptions of the host society
Hendriks, Martijn; Burger, Martijn J. - 2018
Immigrants in developed countries typically fail to assimilate in terms of subjective well-being, meaning that their happiness and life satisfaction do not substantially increase with their length of stay or across generations, and therefore their subjective well-being remains lower than that of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011932351
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When the Quality of a Nation triggers Emigration
van Dalen, Hendrik P.; Henkens, Kène - 2006
Why do people leave high-income countries with extensive welfare states? This article will examine what underlies the emigration intentions of native-born inhabitants of one industrialized country in particular: the Netherlands. To understand emigration from high-income countries we focus not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325160
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Regional Economic Impacts of Immigration: A Review
Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2009
A burgeoning literature has emerged during the last two decades to assess the economic impacts of immigration on host countries. In recent years much research has been at the national level under the assumption that impacts in open regions may dissipate through adjustment processes such as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326002
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Tax incentives for high skilled migrants: evidence from a preferential tax scheme in the Netherlands
Timm, Lisa Marie; Giuliodori, Massimo; Muller, Paul - 2022
This paper examines to what extent an income tax exemption affects international mobility and wages of skilled immigrants. We study a preferential tax scheme for foreigners in the Netherlands, which introduced an income threshold for eligibility in 2012 and covers a large share of the migrant...
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Migrants and International Economic Linkages : A Meta-Overview
Gheasi, Masood - 2011
The rapid growth in the foreign-born population in many high and middle-income countries in the past decades has prompted much research on the socio-economic impacts of immigration. The migration issue has become one of the most debated subjects in many developed countries. Since the early...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119265
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Migration and Foreign Direct Investment : Education Matters
Gheasi, Masood - 2011
The rapid growth in the foreign-born population in many high and middle-income countries in recent decades has prompted much research on the socio-economic determinants and impacts of immigration. This paper investigates the relationship between the stock of foreign population by nationality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119945
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Market Integration Dynamics and Asymptotic Price Convergence in Distribution
García-Hiernaux, Alfredo; Guerrero, David E.; McAleer, … - 2013
In this paper we analyse the market integration process of the relative price distribution, develop a model to analyze … market integration, and present a formal test of increasing market integration. We distinguish between the economic concepts … distribution. We present concepts and definitions related to the market integration process, link this to price convergence in …
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