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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
immigration; should immigrants preserve their traditions and culture while living in the host country (integration … this issue goes to the heart of internal policy formulation on immigration but is also influential to the image that the …, France might be classed as essentially assimilationist and Britain as multi-cultural, whereas the Netherlands and Germany …
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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
In den zentralasiatischen Ländern Kirgistan und Tadschikistan müssen viele Erwachsene ihre Familien zeitweilig verlassen, um sich in anderen Regionen oder Ländern einen Arbeitsplatz zu suchen. Die Geldüberweisungen an die Familien stellen in beiden Ländern einen erheblichen wirtschaftlichen...
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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
hingegen in vielen Ländern eine Schwachstelle. Deutschland erfüllt im internationalen Vergleich hohe Standards bei der … the recent years, Germany also neglects recognizing victims and granting them amnesty. In 2011, the protection policy of … Germany is evaluated as 'modest (score 3)' only, while the levels of its prosecution and prevention policies are ranked as …
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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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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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Remittances and labor supply in post-conflict Tajikistan
Justino, Patricia; Shemyakina, Olga N. - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 1 (2012), pp. 1-28
We analyze the impact of remittances on the labor supply of men and women in post-conflict Tajikistan. Individuals from remittance-receiving households are less likely to participate in the labor market and supply fewer hours when they do. The results are robust to different measures of...
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Self-selection patterns among return migrants : Mexico 1990-2010
Campos-Vazquez, Raymundo M.; Lara, Jaime - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-18
This paper analyzes the self-selection patterns among Mexican return migrants during the period 1990–2010. To calculate the selection patterns, we nonparametrically estimate the counterfactual wages that the return migrants would have experienced had they never migrated by using the wage...
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Does aid induce brain drain? : a panel data analysis
Ontiveros, Darwin Ugarte; Veradi, Vincenzo - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-19
Recent evidence suggests that aid induces migration. This result is nevertheless not very informative from a policy perspective since what counts in terms of welfare consequences is the composition of migration. In this paper we focus on education and study which of skilled or unskilled...
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From immigrants to (non-)citizens : political economy of naturalisations in Latvia
Ivļevs, Artjoms; King, Roswitha M. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-23
the analysis of naturalisations: due to the centrally planned nature of its 1945–1991 immigration flows, we can exclude …
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