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Transit Across the Alps: the Problem and Approaches Towards a Solution
Puwein, Wilfried - 2006
The transport of road goods across the Alps constitutes a problem both for European transportation and for the Alpine environment. Austria and Switzerland have made a number of attempts to decelerate the growth in lorry transit volume and shift transport onto the rail modes. After ten years,...
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Ethnic Discrimination in Education: The Swiss Case
Bauer, Philipp; Sheldon, George - 2008
This paper investigates the role that discrimination plays in the educational marginalization of foreign youth commonly observed in European countries with a long guestworker tradition. Economic theory offers two basic explanations for discrimination of this form: taste-based discrimination...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390634
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Economic discrimination and cultural differences as barriers to migrant integration: Is reverse causality symmetric?
Kohler, Pierre - 2012
This paper examines the endogenous relationship between the economic and cultural integration of migrants in Switzerland or, more precisely, how economic and cultural barriers to integration reinforce each other. Are cultural differences preventing the successful integration of migrants or does...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316755
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The effect of host society culture on migrant wage discrimination: Approaching the Roestigraben
Kohler, Pierre - 2012
Swiss context stems from two stylized facts showing that (i) political preferences on issues related to migration, asylum …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316778
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Education, gender, religion, politics: What priorities for cultural integration policies in Switzerland?
Kohler, Pierre - 2012
more, to gender-related behaviors in endogamous couples, it appears that migration-related gender issues and migration …
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Migrant networks as substitute for institutions: Evidence from Swiss trade
Vézina, Pierre-Louis - 2010
This paper uses an untapped dataset on Swiss immigration and a novel instrumental variable to test three channels through which migrants promote trade. The main finding is that migrant networks are an effective substitute for formal institutions in facilitating trade. The effect takes place...
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Migration policy can boost PISA results: Findings from a natural experiment
Cattaneo, Maria Alejandra; Wolter, Stefan - 2012
Switzerland radically changed its migration policy in the mid-nineties from a non-qualified only policy to one that … yet affected by the change in the migration policy, with the PISA 2009 test. Using a Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition analysis … more fully consider differences in national migration policies when assessing the success of migrant integration. …
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[Rezension] Gesine Asmus (Hrsg.): Hinterhof, Keller und Mansarde : Einblicke in Berliner Wohnungselend 1901-1920. Reinbek: Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, 1982
Rosenbrock, Rolf - In: Das Argument: Zeitschrift für Philosophie und … 25 (1983) 140, pp. 617-618
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Mieten oder Kaufen: Eine Analyse für die deutschen Kreise
Schier, Michael; Voigtländer, Michael - In: IW-Trends - Vierteljahresschrift zur empirischen … 41 (2014) 2, pp. 15-28
Die Besteuerung von selbstgenutztem und vermietetem Wohneigentum folgt in Deutschland sehr unterschiedlichen Regeln. Während selbstgenutzte Immobilien wie ein Konsumgut behandelt werden, gelten vermietete Immobilien als Investitionsgut. Bedingt durch diese Ungleichbehandlung variiert die...
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Wohnen in städtischen Räumen - Ansätze für eine integrierte Entwicklung
Ruprecht, Mei-Ing (contributor);  … - 2018
" stellt sich im Handlungsfeld Wohnen abschließend sowohl als Lernprozess im kooperativen Handeln als auch als gemeinsam zu …
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