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selectivity. OLS regression was used on secondary data to determine the flow of labor immigrants from source‐destination country … first family member to immigrate. Practical implications – Immigrants may need to seek objective third party information on …
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is a very important location factor and implies that a location may attract current immigrants mainly because it … attracted previous immigrants, even if the traditional location factors are not a source of attractiveness. Research limitations … level of concentration of immigrants is a well known stylized fact, there is almost no study of the factors explaining this …
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representative sample of entrants into unemployment in Germany. The data include a large number of migration variables, allowing us …
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Purpose – The aim of this paper is to study the economic effects of risk attitudes, time preferences, trust and reciprocity and to compare natives and second generation migrants. Design/methodology/approach – This paper is based on the IZA Evaluation Dataset, a recently collected survey of a...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce the special issue on “Disadvantaged workers in the labour market” and to draw some policy implications that are common to the studies included in the special issue. Design/methodology/approach – The paper introduces several econometric...
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segments of the labour market, by exploring how immigrants and their descendants (sometimes designated second generation … immigrants) develop re‐emigration strategies in their first country of settlement in Europe when faced with structural or … suggest that in some cases, immigrants draw on social networks available to them to engage in processes of continued intra …
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paths and economic outcomes, a point equally corroborated by research on gender and migration in higher education in Europe …
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Educational e-services in schools help to bridge the gap between parents and teachers by sharing information about the children's school activities in a collaborative way. However, there is a lack of research explaining how effectively this collaboration takes place and the challenges that...
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country. Because the foreign born were heavily clustered in five states, a product of network-driven migration, the impact of … and illegal immigrants imposed an unequal and variegated pattern of fiscal and social impacts on the nation’s welfare … regime by 2004. However, as immigrants have begun to settle outside of the five impacted states, they have begun to demolish …
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Abstract In September 2012, the California Secretary of State made it possible, for the first time, for the state’s eligible voters to register online. In fewer than 5 weeks prior to the November 2012 election, 787,337 of California’s eligible voters took advantage of this opportunity. In...
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