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Menschenhandel : Deutschland beim Opferschutz nur Mittelmaß

Cho, Seo-young - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 79 (2012) 39, pp. 3-12

Mehr als 2,45 Millionen Menschen sind laut den Vereinten Nationen Opfer von Menschenhandel, die Dunkelziffer ist hoch. Viele Staaten haben deshalb ihre Bemühungen verstärkt, gegen Menschenhandel vorzugehen und den Opfern zu helfen. Das DIW Berlin hat nun den 3P-Index, der die staatlichen...

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The productivity of return migrants : the case of China’s "Sea Turtles"

Sun, Wei - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-19

This paper explores the productivity differential between return migrants (“Sea Turtles”) and non-migrants through a … capitalists are less productive than comparable non-migrants in targeting promising projects and/or providing value-added services …. Given that the VC industry is a useful laboratory in which to look at the performance of return migrants and China …

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Where is the grass greener? : a micro-founded model of migration with application to Guangdong

Simmons, Peter; Xie, Yuanyuan - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-23

study how migrants choose between multiple locations using multiple criteria. Migration should reduce inequality in the …This paper first develops a structural micro-founded model of aggregate net migration flow using matching ideas to … criteria. Most migration models either do not handle multiple criteria and locations or lack micro foundation. The model …

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The effects of international migration on the well-being of native populations in Europe

Betz, William; Simpson, Nicole B. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-21

Very little is understood about how immigrants affect the happiness, or subjective well-being of natives. We use the European Social Survey to analyze the effects of aggregate immigration flows on the subjective well-being of native-born populations in a panel of 26 countries between 2002 and...

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Ethnic persistence, assimilation and risk proclivity

Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramons, Konstantinos - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-23

This paper investigates whether immigrants adapt to the attitudes of the majority population in the host country by focusing on the effect of ethnic persistence and assimilation on individual risk proclivity. Employing information from a unique representative German survey, we find that...

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Forecasting wage inequality

Ruiz-Tagle V., Jaime - In: Estudios de economía 34 (2007) 2, pp. 141-162

Wage inequality in Chile has remained high for decades and it is currently at the center of the political agenda. Increasing education of workers is expected to contribute to reduce wage inequality. Based on historical trends of age, education, and returns to education, this paper attempts to...

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Multiculturalism versus assimilation : attitudes towards immigrants in Western countries

Vani, Borooah K.; John, Mangan - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 2 (2009) 2, pp. 33-50

A long standing area of debate in Western countries is that of the appropriate philosophy for facilitating large scale immigration; should immigrants preserve their traditions and culture while living in the host country (integration/multiculturalism) or should they assimilate themselves into...

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El estudio de casos como metodología de investigación científica en dirección y economía de la empresa : una aplicación a la internacionalización

Villarreal Larrinaga, O.; Landeta Rodríguez, J. - In: Investigaciones europeas de Dirección y Economía de … 16 (2010) 3, pp. 31-52

Management, as a social science, and Strategic Management, as a specific scientific discipline of this science, require research methodologies that can deal with all of the complexities of the business phenomena to be analysed. Certain circumstances call for methodologies that can combine...

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Arbeitsmigration in Zentralasien: Kinder profitieren nicht von Geldüberweisungen

Kröger, Antje Elisabeth - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 79 (2012) 6, pp. 11-17

genauer untersucht: die Auswirkungen der Geldüberweisungen auf Bildung und Gesundheit der Kinder sowie die Folgen zeitweiliger … Auswanderung von Vätern auf das Wohlergehen der zurückbleibenden Kinder und auf die Entscheidungsmacht innerhalb des Haushalts. Die … sich die Situation der Kinder in Kirgistan eher. Die Geldsendungen können diesen Effekt offenbar nicht wettmachen. Für …

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Global imbalances in current account balances

Bildirici, Melike; Kayıkçı, Fazil - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 2 (2012) 6, pp. 83-93

Persistent current account deficits were observed in some developing countries that are received substantial foreign capital in the last decades. This has raised the issue of sustainability and increased the volume of studies about the measures of sustainable current account deficits in the...

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