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Age at migration and social integration
Åslund, Olof; Böhlmark, Anders; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2009
The paper studies childhood migrants and examines how age at migration affects their ensuing integration at the residential market, the labor market, and the marriage market. We use population-wide Swedish data and compare outcomes as adults among siblings arriving at different ages in order to...
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Why does the amount of income redistribution differ between United States and Europe? The Janus face of Switzerland
Akkoyunlu, Sule; Neustadt, Ilja; Zweifel, Peter - 2009
In this paper, the amount of income redistribution in the United States, the European Union, and Switzerland is compared and empirically related to economic, political, and behavioral determinants elaborated in the literature. Lying in between the two poles, Switzerland provides unique evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315581
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Post-1500 population flows and the long run determinants of economic growth and inequality
Putterman, Louis; Weil, David N. - 2008
We construct a matrix showing the share of the year 2000 population in every country that is descended from people in different source countries in the year 1500. Using this matrix, we analyze how post-1500 migration has influenced the level of GDP per capita and within-country income inequality...
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Exclusion, Marginalization and Peripheralization: Conceptual concerns in the study of urban inequalities
Bernt, Matthias; Colini, Laura - 2013
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Occupational upgrading, social inclusion and collective skill formation in the transition to the knowledge economy
Durazzi, Niccolo; Tonelli, Simone - 2024
Collective skill formation systems were central to sustaining a high-road approach to economic development in industrial societies while maintaining social inclusion. But can they still deliver in knowledge-based societies, both economically and socially? This article argues that nothing...
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Income inequality and health: Lessons from a refugee residential assignment program
Grönqvist, Hans; Johansson, Per; Niknami, Susan - 2012
This paper examines the effect of income inequality on health for a group of particularly disadvantaged individuals: refugees. Our analysis draws on longitudinal hospitalization records coupled with a settlement policy where Swedish authorities assigned newly arrived refugees to their first area...
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Immigration and Majority Voting on Income Redistriubtion - Is there a Case for Opposition from Natives?
Mayr, Karin - 2003
This paper examines the effect of immigration on the level of income redistribution via majority voting on the income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294599
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The fiscal impact of immigrants in Austria - A generational accounting analysis
Mayr, Karin - 2004
1998 as well as the inter-temporal fiscal impact of immigration to Austria. Immigrants affect inter-temporal fiscal balance …. The overall fiscal effect of immigration is found positive, under the assumption that the age and fiscal characteristics … payments during working age. However, immigration is not likely to achieve inter-temporal fiscal balance, even if immigration …
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Immigration and Distribution of Wages in Austria
Horvath, Gerard Thomas - 2011
Using detailed micro data on earnings and employment, I analyze the effects of immigration on the wage distribution of … native male workers in Austria. I find that immigration has heterogeneous effects on wages, differing by type of work as well … effects occur at most percentiles. The estimated effects of immigration are relatively small in size and not significant for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294880
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Optimal quota for sector-specific immigration
Mayr, Karin - 2008
Sectoral labor supply shortage is a cause of concern in many OECD countries and has raised support for immigration as a … compensating wage differential for working in one sector rather than in another. We identify price and wage effects of immigration … majority vote on immigration into a given sector as well as the social optimum. The main findings are that i) the old determine …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294883