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Cultural distance and conflict-related sexual violence
Guarnieri, Eleonora; Tur-Prats, Ana - 2020
This paper examines the role of ethnic-based gender norms in explaining the occurrence and intensity of sexual violence … economic, family, and societal arrangements, we construct and validate an ethnic-based gender inequality index. We control for … a large set of fixed effects and find empirical support for two interrelated hypotheses. First, gender-unequal armed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012421510
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Eastern European immigrants in the UK before and after the 2004 European enlargement
Longhi, Simonetta; Rokicka, Magdalena - 2012 - This version: 31 January 2012
The 2004 accession of Eastern European countries to the EU has generated concerns about the influx of low-skill immigrants to those countries which did not impose restrictions to immigration, namely Ireland, Sweden, and the UK. However, there is lack of recent systematic evidence on the level of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521753
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Mapping the occupational segregation of white women in the U.S. : differences across metropolitan areas
Alonso Villar, Olga; Río Otero, Coral del - 2015
territorial differences in a) the educational level of white women, b) the gender-race composition of the labor force, c) the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011483661
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Routledge handbook of Asian diaspora and development
Sahoo, Ajaya Kumar (ed.) - 2021
Development Potential of Asian Diasporas -- Diaspora, Homeland, and Development -- Gender, Generation and Identities …, race relations, ethnic studies, gender studies, globalization, Asian studies and research methods." …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012313860
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Distance is crucial, at least for neighbors : foreign employment at the district level
Lehmann, Robert; Nagl, Wolfgang - 2015 - Preliminary draft, this version: July 31, 2015
We study the regional representation of foreign workers from each EU-27 country in German regions. For most of the German neighboring countries, we find that distance significantly matters for the workplace location in Germany. The striking exception is Poland. For non-neighboring countries,...
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Voluntary brain waste and the reservation wage of migrants : evidence from Austria and three CEE countries
Nowotny, Klaus - 2012 - Preliminary draft
Stylized facts show that migrants more often face overqualified employment than natives. As shown by previous research, one third of the employed foreign born with tertiary education in the EU-15 are overqualified, with levels reaching up to 57.6%, compared to 20.9% among natives. Among the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517815
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Cultural distance and gravity effects among migrants : a comparative analysis of the EU15
Tubadji, Annie; Nijkamp, Peter - 2013
This paper introduces cultural gravity as a new concept for analyzing socio-economic disparities among immigrants. It tests the existence of cultural gravity effects on the geographic concentration and human capital productivity of immigrants. Using cultural distance as a proxy for the local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011565957
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The role of culture on self-employment
Marcén, Miriam - 2013
There is an extensive literature examining the determinants of self-employment. These studies have mainly failed to account for the differences in entrepreneurial spirit across countries. This paper explores the role of culture in self-employment by exploiting variation in historical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011711520
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Occupational segregation by race and ethnicity in the US : differences across states
Gradín, Carlos; Río Otero, Coral del; Alonso Villar, Olga - 2011
Using the 2005-2007 American Community Survey, we analyze the occupational segregation of workers by race and ethnicity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011555092
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Effects of ethnic advertising on consumers of minority and majority groups : the moderating effect of humor
Rößner, Anna; Kämmerer, Maren; Eisend, Martin - In: International journal of advertising : the quarterly … 36 (2017) 1, pp. 190-205
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011687912