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Previous studies on the determinants of attitudes toward immigration can be classified into those that take a … utilitarian perspective, focusing on individuals’ perceptions of real-world impacts of immigration, and those that look at … immigration attitudes from the point of view of ideological orientation, focusing on broad political norms and values. While …
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This paper studies the impact of income inequality on the subjective well-being of different social groups in urban China. We classify urban social groups according to their hukou status: rural migrants, 'born?urban residents, and 'acquired?urban residents who once changed their hukou identity...
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This paper studies the impact of income inequality on the subjective well-being of different social groups in urban China. We classify urban social groups according to their hukou status: rural migrants, "born?urban residents, and "acquired?urban residents who once changed their hukou identity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005088354
Africa, with particular focus on Ghana, shows that despite the prevalence of intra-regional migration, most governments … necessarily applicable. On the one hand, borders are generally more porous and immigration controls more lax, so that assimilation … linguistic, cultural and ethnic diversity tends to be higher in West Africa, so basing immigration integration on multicultural …
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selective out-migration literature, our basic structure assumes that the process that determines out-migration is unrelated to …
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Quite often, migrants appear to exert little effort to absorb the mainstream culture and to learn the language of their host society, even though the economic returns (increased productivity and enhanced earnings) to assimilation are high. We show that when interpersonal comparisons affect...
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This paper examines the economic and related consequences of immigration from a less developed country (LDC) to a … evolved welfare case, immigration is only an advantage for the immigrant, especially one with less marketable skills, while it …
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Upon arrival to a new country, many immigrants face job downgrading, a phenomenon describing workers being in jobs far below where they would be assigned based on their skills. Downgrading leads to immigrants receiving lower returns to the same skills than natives. The level of downgrading could...
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prohibited additional immigration and announced that their task would thereafter be to incorporate their immigrant … sparked. The ongoing restructuring of the welfare state and the transformation of migration into a contentious fixture of …
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the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper we are concerned with international migration and health outcomes in … the host countries. Through a general literature review and examination of specific immigration countries, we provide …
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