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"Race or People": Federal Race Classifications for Europeans in America, 1898-1913
Perlmann, Joel - 2001
In this paper, I follow the development of the classification scheme discussions closely through its formative decade, from the last years of the 1890s through about 1913, by which time three revealing publications close the prewar developments: the United States Immigration Commission's massive...
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Emigration of Immigrants and Measures of Immigrant Assimilation: Evidence from Sweden.
Edin, Per-Anders; LaLonde, Robert J.; Åslund, Olof - 2000
Most previously used measures of immigrant labor market assimilation will be biased if there is non-random emigration of immigrants. We use longitudinal data on immigration to Sweden 1970-1990 to examine the extent and pattern of immigrant emigration and its consequences for measures of...
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Opportunities and pitfalls in the migration-development nexus: Somaliland and beyond
Nyberg Sørensen, Ninna - 2004
Against the background of increased human mobility over the last three decades, resurgent interest in the migration-development nexus has stimulated new lines of academic inquiry and pushed policy considerations in new directions. This paper outlines current discussions around the links between...
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ifo Migrationsmonitor: Fakten zur Kriminalität von Geflüchteten
Giesing, Yvonne; Rhode, Carla; Schönauer, Anne; … - In: ifo Schnelldienst 72 (2019) 05, pp. 32-37
Wer nur die Anteile der Geflüchteten in der Kriminalstatistik betrachtet, lässt wichtige Faktoren außer Acht: etwa das Anzeigeverhalten gegenüber Geflüchteten oder deren Alters- und Geschlechtsstruktur. Es fehlt außerdem an Medienaufmerksamkeit für die spezifischen, tiefer liegenden...
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Die Arbeitsmarktsituation von Migrantinnen und Migranten in Hessen
Burkert, Carola; Kislat, Julia - 2018
Migranten in Hessen als aktuell und notwendig. Bei der Arbeitsmarktsituation von Zugewanderten und Ausländern in Hessen waren im … aber eine steigende Beschäftigung von Migranten, insbesondere von Personen aus den neuen osteuropäischen EU-Ländern, zu … verzeichnen. Jedoch ist die Erwerbsquote von Migranten insgesamt niedriger als die von Deutschen. Die Arbeitslosenquoten von …
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Integration von Flüchtlingen durch Ausbildung im Handwerk - Potenziale, Herausforderungen und Erfolgsfaktoren
Lahner, Jörg - 2017
Die Integration von Migrantinnen und Migranten, speziell von Flüchtlingen, stellt eine der großen gesellschaftlichen …
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Immigrant Assimilation and Welfare Participation: Do Immigrants Assimilate Into or Out-of Welfare
Hansen, Jörgen; Lofstrom, Magnus - 1999
This paper analyzes differences in welfare utilization between immigrants and natives in Sweden using a large panel data set, LINDA, for the years 1990 to 1996. Both welfare expenditures and immigration increased in Sweden in the 1990?s. We find that immigrants use welfare to a greater extent...
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Immigration Policy, Assimilation of Immigrants and Natives' Sentiments towards Immigrants: Evidence from 12 OECD-Countries
Bauer, Thomas K.; Lofstrom, Magnus; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2000
As in the U.S. and Canada, migration is a controversial issue in Europe. This paper explores the possibility that immigration policy may affect the labor market assimilation of immigrants and hence natives? sentiments towards immigrants. It first reviews the assimilation literature in economics...
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Reducing income transfers to refugee immigrants: does starthelp help you start?
Rosholm, Michael; Vejlin, Rune M. - 2007
In this paper we estimate the causal effect of lowering the public income transfers administered to newly arrived refugee immigrants in Denmark - the so-called starthelp - using a competing risk mixed proportional hazard framework. The two competing risks are exit to job and exit out of the...
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Asylum, immigration and statehood - a philosophical perspective
Oschinski, Matthias - 2005
According to UNHCR, the number of refugees and people of the UNHCR's concern exceeds 20 million. This number, though very large, is still understated as it accounts only for those individuals who actually fulfil UNHCR's definition of a refugee. The true number of people in adversity, in need of...
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