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groups, mainly ethnic Russians, remained into the former member states of the Soviet Union after its dissolution in 1991. We … use individual level Estonia Census data in order to investigate the ethnic dimensions of suburbanisation. The results …
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Immigrants ascend to citizenship at differential rates in Canada. Why is this so? This paper investigates the economic … costs and benefits derived from citizenship to rationalize the differential rates of citizenship ascension. Canadian … earnings evidence confirms the sizable economic benefits of citizenship. A decomposition analysis attributes this benefit to …
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This paper consists of two parts focusing on the immigrant?s decision to acquire Canadian citizenship, and her … citizenship -non-citizenship earnings differences. Next, we confirmed the standard results that the naturalization decision is … bias appears in Canadian immigrant citizenship decisions and varies by immigrant gender and source country groups. Our …
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the characteristics of immigrants and the origin-country variables are shown to be important determinants of citizenship … country recognizes dual citizenship, and the geographic distance of the origin country from the US. …
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This paper presents one of the first studies of firm demographics in Estonia, particularly, on the processes of firm … Estonia during the observed period from 1995 to 2001, resulting from low institutional entry barriers and emergence of the SME …
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Banking reform has proved to be one of the most problematic elements of economic transition in central and Eastern Europe. Therefore the paper considers the development of the Estonian banking sector and derives individual banks´ fragility scores during transition. To this end we use...
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This study develops a parsimonious stable coe?cient money demand model for Estonia for the period from 1995 till 2006 …
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This paper summarizes our recent work on the rate of return and cost-benefit ratio of an influential early childhood program.
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Despite favourable ecological and economic results, many developing countries have not yet adopted an integrated pesticide management (IPM). Given rising marginal costs and diminishing marginal benefits from IPM technology transfer, an optimal control framework is used to identify optimal rates...
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This paper estimates the rate of return to the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program, an early intervention program targeted toward disadvantaged African-American youth. Estimates of the rate of return to the Perry program are widely cited to support the claim of substantial economic benefits from...
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