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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

predictions of straight-line assimilation theory, along with the general improvement of immigrants’ objective living conditions … with their length of stay. Using European Social Survey data, we show that the subjective well-being assimilation of first … whose societal conditions strongly improved by migration and immigrants who arrived after childhood. Faltering societal …

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Out of Africa: What drives the Pressure to emigrate?

van Dalen, Hendrik P.; Groenewold, George; Schoorl, … - 2003

migration behaviour. Both ties within the household with household members who have international migration experience and ties …

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Global Aging and Economic Convergence: A Real Option or Still a Case of Science Fiction?

van Dalen, Hendrik P. - 2007

potential growth phase may well disappear if supporting conditions for growth are absent. Large-scale migration is not expected … allocated generally to consumption rather than to investment purposes. Migration of a temporary nature in conjunction with …

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Remittances and their Effect on Emigration Intentions in Egypt, Morocco and Turkey

van Dalen, Hendrik P.; Groenewold, George; Fokkema, Tineke - 2005

What determines remittances – altruism or enlightened self-interest - and do remittances trigger additional migration …, receipt of remittances may contribute to new flows of migration, in particular in the case of Morocco. …

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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

Over 150 countries allow expatriate citizens to vote in their country of origin. Yet, little is known about their voting behavior and how this is affected by host countries. Using unique micro-data on Chilean expatriates living in Europe, we study how the host country's turnout affects...

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Measuring the Rebound Effect with Micro Data

de Borger, Bruno; Mulalic, Ismir; Rouwendal, Jan - 2015

We provide estimates of the rebound effect for car transport in Denmark, using a rich data set with individual household data on car use, fuel efficiency, and car as well as household characteristics. A demand model is estimated in first differences; the availability of households in the sample...

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Train Commuters' Scheduling Preferences: Evidence from a Large-Scale Peak Avoidance Experiment

Peer, Stefanie; Knockaert, Jasper; Verhoef, Erik - 2015

We study the trip scheduling preferences of train commuters in a real-life setting. The underlying data have been collected during large-scale peak avoidance experiment conducted in the Netherlands, in which participants could earn monetary rewards for traveling outside peak hours. The...

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What Simon says

Heukelom, Floris - 2007

This paper provides an overview of the work of Herbert Simon and his ideas about rational decision making. By his own standards, Simon is an economist who works in the tradition of Adam Smith and Alfred Marshall. The central theme in Simon’s research is how human beings organize themselves in...

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Social Identity Strategies in Recent Economics

Davis, John B. - 2005

This paper reviews three distinct strategies in recent economics for using the concept of social identity in the explanation of individual behavior: Akerlof and Kranton’s neoclassical approach, Sen’s commitment approach, and Kirman et al.’s complexity approach. The primary focus is the...

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A Theory of Procedurally Rational Choice: Optimization without Evaluation

Ficco, Stefano; Karamychev, Vladimir; van Reeven, Peran - 2006

This paper analyses the behavior of an individual who wants to maximize his utility function, but he is not able to evaluate it. There are many ways to choose a single alternative from a given set. We show that a unique utility maximizing procedure exists. Choices induced by this optimal...

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