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Migration and culture
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010418457
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Migration and culture
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2010
Culture is not new to the study of migration. It has lurked beneath the surface for some time, occasionally protruding … how culture manifests itself in the migration process for three groups of actors: the migrants, those remaining in the … migration as an economic phenomenon; but what about them matters? Properly, we should be looking at the determinants of identity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008658260
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Migration and Culture
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2010
Culture is not new to the study of migration. It has lurked beneath the surface for some time, occasionally protruding … how culture manifests itself in the migration process for three groups of actors: the migrants, those remaining in the … migration as an economic phenomenon; but what about them matters? Properly, we should be looking at the determinants of identity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008810057
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"Tongue tide" : the economics of language offers important lessons for how Europe can best integrate migrants
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2016
This policy analysis discusses issues regarding the migration to Europe of large numbers of immigrants and refugees who …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011516716
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Social contacts and the economic performance of immigrants : a panel study of immigrants in Germany
Kanas, Agnieszka; Chiswick, Barry R.; Lippe, Tanja van der - 2011
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we examined the impact of social contacts on immigrant occupational status and income. In addition to general social contacts, we also analyzed the effects of bonding (i.e., co-ethnic) and bridging (i.e., interethnic) ties on economic outcomes....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009308811
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Negative and positive assimilation by prices and by quantities
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2013
This paper considers the labor market assimilation of immigrants in terms of earnings and employment (employment probability, unemployment probability, and hours worked per week). Using the 2006 Australian Census of Population and Housing the analyses are performed separately by gender, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009740293
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Implementing quotas in university admissions : an experimental investigation
Braun, Sebastian; Dwenger, Nadja; Kübler, Dorothea; … - 2012
students often fail to grasp the strategic issues involved. The modified SDA algorithm significantly improves the matching for … admissions ; experiment ; quotas ; matching ; Gale-Shapley mechanism ; Boston mechanism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009511649
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Implementing quotas in university admissions : an experimental analysis
Braun, Sebastian; Dwenger, Nadja; Kübler, Dorothea; … - 2012
students often fail to grasp the strategic issues involved. The modified SDA algorithm significantly improves the matching for … admissions ; experiment ; quotas ; matching ; Gale-Shapley mechanism ; Boston mechanism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009487031
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Implementing quotas in university admissions : an experimental analysis
Braun, Sebastian; Dwenger, Nadja; Kübler, Dorothea; … - 2012
students often fail to grasp the strategic issues involved. The modified SDA algorithm significantly improves the matching for … admissions ; experiment ; quotas ; matching ; Gale-Shapley mechanism ; Boston mechanism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009408398
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The impact of international outsourcing on labour market dynamics in Germany
Bachmann, Ronald (contributor); Braun, Sebastian (contributor) - 2008
Using an administrative data set containing daily information on individual workers' employment histories, we investigate how workers' labour market transitions are affected by international outsourcing. In order to do so, we estimate hazard rate models for match separations, as well as for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003641609