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This paper focuses on the role of home country's birth rates in shaping immigrants' fertility. We use the German Socio …-Economic Panel (SOEP) to study completed fertility of first generation immigrants who arrived from different countries and at … destination country. In addition, the fertility rates of source countries explain a large proportion of fertility differentials …
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This study presents an evolutionary process of secularization that integrates a theoretical model, simulations, and an empirical estimation that employs data from 32 countries (included in the International Social Survey Program: Religion II – ISSP, 1998). Following Bisin and Verdier (2000,...
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This paper reviews recent economics literature on culture, with an emphasis on its relation to the field of long-run growth and development. It examines the key issues debated in the new cultural economics: causal effects of culture on economic outcomes, the origins and social costs of culture,...
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This paper explores the fertility decisions of Canadian immigrants using the 20 percent sample of the Canadian Census … assimilation in terms of fertility. Our analysis does not show any sharp discontinuity by age at migration as sometimes observed on … education or labor market outcomes are not present in fertility outcomes. Rather, there is an inverted U shape relationship …
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dissolution as well as fertility among immigrants, and examine the evidence collected from the main studies in the area. With … review a set of mechanisms that may explain the fertility behavior of first-generation immigrants—namely selection …
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The paper is devoted to the fertility intentions of the migrants from Russia belonging to the recent wave of so called … disruption hypothesis and predict the drop in the fertility intentions of new-wave Russian migrants in comparison with the old … the active reproductive age, partnered and in many cases childless, the authors find a strong intention to the fertility …
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Despite many approaches of neoclassical and endogenous growth theory, economists still face problems in explaining the reasons for income differences between countries. Institutional economics and the deep determinants of growth literature try to depart from pure economic facts to examine...
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Cosmopolitan or anxious? In order to test the influence of conflicting aspects of identity, German respondents were asked about their attitude towards a Syrian refugee the description of whom was varied in various domains (N=662). Once the refugee is described as being aware of as well as open...
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Religious and cultural practices have major implications for a Country's economic performance. However, it is not clear if the institutionalization of these social norms within a country's legal system causes material economic effects. In this study I show this to be the case. By employing the...
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This research focuses on the determinants of declining democracy values in the world using recently available data. By doing so, factors that are expected to be correlated with declining democratic values are illuminated and discussed based on formulated hypotheses. This paper utilises...
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