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The main interest of this paper is to compare the value of education systems of different countries. For this reason I use data on workers who have completed their education before immigrating to Switzerland to estimate a country specific return to education. I estimate the standard...
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have blurred the way international transactions can be recorded and how this can be transformed into relevant statistics … for policy makers, research and for businesses themselves. Recent international statistical guidelines have suggested a … number of improvements to better respond to policy information needs, including in the area of trade, innovation or culture …
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In the contemporary world the intensity of the immigration movements is constantly increasing. Countries which … experience great immigrant flows are facing numerous problems which should be solved. The article studies the current immigration …
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This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women … to distinguish the effect of culture from that of social capital. These results support a growing literature that … suggests that culture matters for economic behavior. At the same time, the results suggest considerable evidence of …
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-of-origin composition of a county matters. Moreover, the culture, institutions, and human capital that the immigrant groups brought with …, measures of culture that capture attitudes towards cooperation play the most important and robust role. Finally, our results …
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This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women … to distinguish the effect of culture from that of social capital. These results support a growing literature that … suggests that culture matters for economic behavior. At the same time, the results suggest considerable evidence of …
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This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women …
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The vast majority of immigrants to the United States at the beginning of the 20th century adopted first names that were common among natives. The rate of adoption of an American name increases with time in the US, although most immigrants adopt an American name within the first year of arrival....
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The vast majority of immigrants to the United States at the beginning of the 20th century adopted first names that were common among natives. The rate of adoption of an American name increases with time in the US, although most immigrants adopt an American name within the first year of arrival....
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international World Values Survey data. We show that, in general, economically, politically and socially non-integrated persons are … does not appear to play a role. Again, we find that culture defined by geographic proximity dominates culture defined by …
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