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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 … identify and analyse the characteristics of those people in Western countries who think that immigrants should assimilate … culturally and how they differ from those who think that immigrants should preserve a separate cultural existence? By doing so …

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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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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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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

We study the determinants of the willingness to acquire citizenship of Latvia by ‘non-citizens’ – the former Soviet migrants and their descendants born on the territory of Latvia. The country of Latvia serves as an instructive laboratory for the analysis of naturalisations: due to the...

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Do high-skill immigrants raise productivity? : evidence from Israeli manufacturing firms, 1990-1999

Paserman, M. Daniele - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-31

directly whether firms and industries with a higher concentration of immigrants experienced increases in productivity. The …

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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

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

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Source country characteristics and immigrants’ optimal migration duration decision

Kırdar, Murat G. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-21

This paper examines how immigrants’ optimal migration duration in the host country responds to the purchasing power … substitution of consumption is well above typical estimated values for this parameter. In fact, empirical results from immigrants …—holding individual immigrant characteristics constant— immigrants from poorer source countries have shorter predicted migration duration …

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Skilled migration and the transfer of institutional norms

Beine, Michel; Sekkat, Khalid - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-19

We examine two impacts of international emigration on the evolution of the institutions in the origin countries. The first impact concerns the influence of emigration per se (i.e. people who left the country can voice more or less from abroad). The second impact relates to the transfer of the...

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The working hours of immigrants in Germany : temporary versus permanent

Kahanec, Martin; Shields, Michael P. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-15

Migration is often viewed as an investment decision. Temporary migrants can be expected to invest less in accumulating human capital specific to the host country. Instead, they work more hours in order to accumulate savings and invest in financial capital that can be transferred back to their...

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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 … risk proclivity by reducing immigrants’ risk aversion and explains the systematic variation in the observed risk attitudes … across immigrants of different origins. Our analysis of the adaptation behavior of immigrants suggests that acquisition of …

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