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Immigration, fertility and human capital: A model of economic decline of the West

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2010

I show how the influences of unskilled immigration, differential fertility between immigrants and the local indigenous population, and incentives for investment in human capital combine to predict the decline of the West. In particular, indigenous low-skilled workers lose from unskilled...

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Testing for discrimination against lesbians of different marital status: A field experiment

Weichselbaumer, Doris - 2013

'. Different results are obtained for the two cities investigated, Munich and Berlin. While single lesbians and lesbians in a … based on sexual orientation has been found in Berlin. Furthermore, for a subset of our data we can compare the effects of a …

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Financialisation and rental housing: A case study of Berlin

Davies, Clementine - 2021

This paper seeks to understand the extent financialisation has had an impact on the rental housing market in Berlin …, publicly listed, commercial rental housing companies in Berlin are examined for three operationalisations of financialisation … orientation and short termism. Implications for the supply, price and quality of rental housing in Berlin are discussed. …

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Towards an employer brand - An evidence-based approach to develop an employer brand: A case study of a Berlin-based business incubator in the online and mobile gaming industry

Fischer, Ingo; Kieler, Julia - 2015

This paper analyses and lays the ground for the development of an employer brand that is designed to help a Berlin …

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Does Immigration into Their Neighborhoods Incline Voters Toward the Extreme Right? The Case of the Freedom Party of Austria

Halla, Martin; Wagner, Alexander F.; Zweimüller, Josef - 2012

This paper explores one potentially important channel through which immigration may drive support for extreme right-wing parties: the presence of immigrants in one's neighborhood. We study the case of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ). Under the leadership of Jörg Haider, this party increased...

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Does immigration into their neighborhoods incline voters toward the extreme right? The case of the freedom Party of Austria

Halla, Martin; Wagner, Alexander F.; Zweimüller, Josef - 2012

This paper explores one potentially important channel through which immigration may drive support for extreme-right-wing parties: the presence of immigrants in the voters' neighborhoods. We study the case of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ). Under the leadership of Jörg Haider, this party...

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The "Out of Africa" hypothesis, human genetic diversity, and comparative economic development

Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2010

This research argues that deep-rooted factors, determined tens of thousands of years ago, had a signifcant effect on the course of economic development from the dawn of human civilization to the contemporary era. It advances and empirically establishes the hypothesis that, in the course of the...

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Fact or Fiction? Re-examination of Chinese Premodern Population Statistics

Deng, Kent G. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003

Despite the kind of scholarly attention that has been attracted in the field ofChinese economic history in the past half a century or so, basic quantities ofsome basic factors have remained disagreed. Chinese population is one of them.For example, for the post-1350 period, the gap between...

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Citizens´ groups in Japan and the Internet

Ducke, Isa - 2003

The Internet, like other new technologies, will undoubtedly affect civil society and the workings of activists, citizens´ groups, and the political process as a whole. But how radical will this impact be, and precisely how will the Internet change the way citizens´ groups act?

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Immigration and native welfare

Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Kohler, Wilhelm - 2004

We unify two approaches towards identifying native welfare effects of immigration, one emphasizing the immigration surplus (Borjas, 1995,1999), the other identifying a welfare loss due to terms-of-trade effects (Davis & Weinstein, 2002). We decompose the native welfare effect of immigration into...

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