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This paper investigates the residential integration of transnational regional economies, comparing them with the standard national setting studied in urban economics. For this purpose, we construct a theoretical model for residential location choices for a transnational economy with integrated...
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Immigrant self-employment rates vary considerably across regions in Switzerland. Business ownership provides an alternative to wage labour, where immigrants have to face structural barriers such as the limited knowledge of the local language, or difficulties in fruitfully making use of their own...
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Immigrant self-employment rates vary considerably across regions in Switzerland. Business ownership seems to provide an alternative to wage labour, where immigrants have to face structural barriers such as the limited knowledge of the local language, or difficulties in fruitfully making use of...
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We combine community-level outcomes of 27 votes about immigration issues in Switzerland with census data to estimate the effect of immigration on natives' attitudes towards immigration. We apply an instrumental variable approach to take potentially endogenous locational choices into account, and...
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We combine community-level outcomes of 27 votes about immigration issues in Switzerland with census data to estimate the effect of immigration on natives' attitudes towards immigration. We apply an instrumental variable approach to take potentially endogenous locational choices into account, and...
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micro-level data derived from household surveys in Germany, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. We estimate various … migrants’ well-being in Germany, while a negative effect on life satisfaction of Swiss natives is revealed. Immigrants in … net migration rates may negatively affect the well-being of respondents in Germany. The findings have social and economic …
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This paper explores a variety of potential issues one has to address when estimating intergenerational mobility with historical data. Many studies are potentially affected by bias originating from individuals emigrating and thus dropping out of the sample, missing information on the life-cycle,...
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