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The Determinants and Effects of Social Connectedness in Europe
Bailey, Michael - 2020
We use aggregated data from Facebook to study the structure of social networks across European regions. Social connectedness declines strongly in geographic distance and at country borders. Historical borders and unions — such as the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Czechoslovakia, and East/West...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012832199
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The determinants and effects of social connectedness in Europe
Bailey, Michael; Kuchler, Theresa; Russel, Dominic; … - 2020
We use aggregated data from Facebook to study the structure of social networks across European regions. Social connectedness declines strongly in geographic distance and at country borders. Historical borders and unions - such as the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Czechoslovakia, and East/West Germany...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012219384
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Raising the mobility of thirdcountry nationals in the EU : effects from naturalisation and long-term resident status
Poeschel, Friedrich - 2016
This paper is part of the joint project between the Directorate General for Migration and Home Affairs of the European Commission and the OECD’s Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs on “Review of Labour Migration Policy in Europe”. This document has been produced with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011579729
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Self-employment of foreigners as an innovative solution on the labor market in the European Union
Navickas, Valentinas; Grmanová, Eva; Gajda, Waldemar - In: Verslas : teorija ir praktika : Vilniaus Gedimino … 21 (2020) 1, pp. 178-183
The main aim of this article is to identify certain specificity in self-employment of foreigners in EU countries and to … find out whether the differences in self-employment of foreigners between countries are diminishing. Within the main … indicators: 1/ number of self-employed foreigners and 2/ share of self-employed foreigners in employed persons from foreign …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012225018
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Towards an Economic Perspective of the Religious Associativism : The Case of Lisbon Active Laical Brotherhoods
Mourao, Paulo - 2007
Where are the brotherhoods of the Patriarchate of Lisbon? Why are these brotherhoods located in such spaces? The present work answers to these two questions, being a pioneer attempt about the thematic, in Portugal. Through the empirical validation recurring to logit models, this paper identifies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012776376
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Disentangling the Brexit Vote : The Role of Economic, Social, and Cultural Contexts in Explaining the UK's EU Referendum Vote
Abreu, Maria - 2019
A large number of studies have analysed the role of individual and geographical determinants of voting behaviour in the context of the recent EU referendum in the UK, but several questions remain. One key unresolved issue is the extent of interaction between individual voter characteristics and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012893727
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Economic strain, ethnic concentration and attitudes towards foreigners in the European Union
Gang, Ira N.; Rivera-Batiz, Francisco L.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2002
This paper provides a statistical analysis of the determinants of attitudes towards foreigners displayed by Europeans … negative attitudes towards foreigners. In addition, an increased concentration of immigrants in local neighborhoods increases … negative attitudes towards foreigners, contribute to the increasing anti-foreigner attitudes between 1988 and 1997. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413452
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Unemployment and attitudes towards foreigners in the European Union : a statistical analysis
Gang, Ira N.; Rivera-Batiz, Francisco L. - 1996 - Revised
This paper provides a statistical analysis of the attitudes towards foreigners displayed by European citizens. It is … found that, holding other things constant, unemployed Europeans do not have more negative attitudes towards foreigners than … the likelihood of negative attitudes towards foreigners, everything else the same. These results suggest that it is the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011576469
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Taxation and the International Mobility of Inventors
Akcigit, Ufuk - 2015
This paper studies the effect of top tax rates on inventors' mobility since 1977. We put special emphasis on "superstar" inventors, those with the most and most valuable patents. We use panel data on inventors from the United States and European Patent Offices to track inventors' locations over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013026601
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Immigration and crime : new empirical evidence from European victimization data
Nunziata, Luca - 2014
We exploit the increase in immigration flows into western European countries that took place in the 2000s to assess whether immigration affects crime victimization and the perception of criminality among European natives. Using data from the European Social Survey, the Labour Force Survey and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434459