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How do immigrants spend time? : the process of assimilation

Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2010

immigrants and natives become noticeable when activities are distinguished by incidence and intensity. We develop a theory of the … process of assimilation-what immigrants do with their time-based on the notion that assimilating activities entail fixed costs …. The theory predicts that immigrants will be less likely than natives to undertake such activities, but conditional on …

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How do immigrants spend their time? : the process of assimilation

Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2010

immigrants and natives become noticeable when activities are distinguished by incidence and intensity. We develop a theory of the … process of assimilation – what immigrants do with their time – based on the notion that assimilating activities entail fixed … costs. The theory predicts that immigrants will be less likely than natives to undertake such activities, but conditional on …

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Is there an income convergence across provinces of Turkey?

Öz, Sumru - 2017

In this paper, whether there is a convergence of per capita incomes across Turkish provinces during 2004-2014 period is examined following the availability of per capita incomes of Turkish provinces for this period as of December 2016. Considering that firms and households of different regions...

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Kriz ve ışsizlik : başarı örnekleri ve çözüm önerileri

Öz, Sumru - 2010

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The value of peripatetic economists : a sesqui-difference evaluation of Bob Gregory

Hamermesh, Daniel S. (contributor) - 2005

I ask generally whether a country can benefit from the temporary importation of human capital, and specifically whether a program that attracts large groups of academic visitors to a distant country benefits it by generating additional scholarly research on local issues. Using the list of...

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"Beauty too rich for use" : billionaires' assets and attractiveness

Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Leigh, Andrew - 2021

We examine how the net worth of billionaires relates to their looks, as rated by 16 people of different gender and ethnicity. Surprisingly, their financial assets are unrelated to their beauty; nor are they related to their educational attainment. As a group, however, billionaires are both more...

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