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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...
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Across the world, we observe different experiences in terms of inequality between migrant and 'host-country' populations. What factors contribute to such variation? What policies and programmes facilitate 'better' economic integration? This paper, and the broader collection of studies that it...
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Union (EU) due to rapid population ageing and declining fertility rates. However, the traditional migration source countries …
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Income inequality is increasing in European cities and this rising inequality has a spatial footprint in cities and neighbourhoods. Poor and rich people are increasingly living separated and this can threaten the social sustainability of cities. Low income people, often with an ethnic minority...
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The Roma are the largest ethnic minority in Europe - as well as one of the most disadvantaged. A triple vicious circle is at play: Substandard socio-economic outcomes reinforce each other; they fuel negative attitudes and perceptions, leading to ill-chosen policies; and segmentation is...
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The role of institutions in immigrant integration remains underexplored in spite of its essential significance for integration policies. This paper adopts the Varieties of Capitalism framework to study the institutional determinants of Immigrant-Native gaps in host labor markets. Using the EU...
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, signifying widespread labor market hierarchies. While significant resources have been invested in migration and integration …
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Migration Integration Policy Indicator (MIPEX), we find that countries with more developed integration policies do not … that integration policies indeed act as a pull factor for migration in a gravity model that controls also for the … restrictiveness and skill selectivity of migration policies. Yet, it seems that more elaborate integration policies affect primarily …
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, signifying widespread labor market hierarchies. While significant resources have been invested in migration and integration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013460059
We study the short- and long-term economic and social integration of European war refugees. The population under study left former Yugoslavia for Sweden in the early 1990s. In the first years, there were significant human capital investments in language training, adult education, and active...
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