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Borders Matter! - Regional Integration in North America / Grenzen sind bedeutsam! - Regionale Integration Nordamerika
Blum, Ulrich - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 223 (2003) 5, pp. 513-531
Summary We analyze the spatial interaction among regions in North America and in Western Europe. We use a gravity model extended by a spatial correlation structure where data allows to evaluate the spatial interaction in two dimensions: level of impact and the length of the spatial tail. This...
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The discontinuous integration of Western Europe's heterogeneous market for corporate control from 1995 to 2007
Frey, Rainer - 2010
the relevance of borders has decreased over time. For the EU 15, we investigate the expected integration process of the … market for corporate control - an illustrative market for studying integration issues - over the period from 1995 to 2007 … introduction of the euro may have led to accelerated integration. However, thereafter we find no evidence for further progress …
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Bridges or buffers? Motives behind immigrants' religiosity
Garcia-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - In: IZA Journal of Migration 2 (2013), pp. 1-23
This study reviews and evaluates the motives and incentives behind immigrants' religiosity, focusing on the two sides of the Atlantic - Europe and the United States. The contribution of the study is mainly empirical, trying to identify indicators for the type of incentive - whether immigrants'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331891
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Bridges or buffers? Motives behind immigrants' religiosity - A comparative study of Europe and the United States
Garcia-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - 2013
This study reviews and evaluates the motives and incentives behind immigrants' religiosity, focusing on the two sides of the Atlantic - Europe and the United States. The contribution of the study is mainly empirical, trying to identify indicators for the type of incentive - whether immigrants'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336000
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Market power, productivity and the EU single market program: An ex-post assessment on Italian firm level data
Bottasso, Anna; Sembenelli, Alessandro - 1998
project. Overall, these results are consistent with the long standing view that economic integration reduces firms' market …
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One Welfare State for Europe: A Costly Utopia?
Hennessy, Peter; Warin, Thierry - In: Global Economy Journal 4 (2004) 2
This paper addresses the question of the social policy harmonization in the European Union. In adopting a common monetary policy, Europe is faced with structural and fiscal concerns, as national growth levels differ. Another possible factor in output shocks are the levels of various social...
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The discontinuous integration of Western Europe's heterogeneous market for corporate control from 1995 to 2007
Frey, Rainer - 2010
the relevance of borders has decreased over time. For the EU 15, we investigate the expected integration process of the … market for corporate control - an illustrative market for studying integration issues - over the period from 1995 to 2007 … introduction of the euro may have led to accelerated integration. However, thereafter we find no evidence for further progress …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271607
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Assimilation and integration of immigrants in Europe
Aleksynska, Mariya; Algan, Yann - 2010
' outcomes and specific policies aimed at immigrants' integration are rather disparate, raising further questions regarding both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274577
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Immigration: The European Experience
Dustmann, Christian; Frattini, Tommaso - 2011
of the skill structures of immigrants and their labor market integration in the different European countries, their …
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From immigrants to fundamentalists: Changing portrayals of Muslim identities in Europe
Owers, Daphne - 2015
nexus of failed integration, Islamic fundamentalism and home-grown extremism fails to question the discriminatory backdrop … of integration policies in European nation states and does not explain why only a tiny minority of Muslims participate in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011282632