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Bridges or buffers? : motives behind immigrants’ religiosity
Garcia-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010224804
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Conditions of the life quality : methodological remarks
Słaby, Teresa - In: Economic and environmental studies : a journal for … 17 (2017) 2, pp. 297-317
The life quality results from the degree of needs satisfaction, what comes among other from goods and services consumption. The aim of the work is to widespread the outcomes from author’s research attempting to find the determinants of the life quality, using more advanced statistical methods....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011712134
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The impact of family size and sibling structure on the great Mexico-U.S. migration
Bratti, Massimiliano; Fiore, Simona; Mendola, Mariapia - 2019
We investigate how fertility and demographic factors affect migration at the household level by assessing the causal effects of sibship size and structure on offspring's international migration. We use a rich demographic survey on the population of Mexico and exploit presumably exogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149253
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Is religiosity of immigrants a bridge or a buffer in the process of integration? A comparative study of Europe and the United States
García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - 2012
habits)?; (iii) how does religiosity of immigrants affect integration: is it serving as a bridge that smoothens integration … into the local population, or as a buffer against the harsh integration process?; and (iv) are the intersections between … religiosity and integration different in Europe and in the United States, due to historical differences in the state …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282226
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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/10010209718
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The relationship between Stress, Strain and Social Capital
Gächter, Martin; Savage, David A.; Torgler, Benno - 2010
This paper analyzes the effectiveness of social capital in reducing the negative externalities associated with stress, as well as the physical and psychological strain indicators among police officers. Despite the fact that there is a large multidisciplinary literature on stress or on social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294804
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Retaining the Thin Blue Line: What Shapes Workers' Intentions not to Quit the Current Work Environment
Gächter, Martin; Savage, David A.; Torgler, Benno - 2010
The purpose of this study was to investigate the determinants of police officers' intentions to quit their current department. For this purpose, we analysed US survey data that included a large set of police officers from the Baltimore Police Department in Maryland. Our results indicate that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294817
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The Safest Time to Fly : Pandemic Response in the Era of Fox News
Ananyev, Maxim; Poyker, Michael; Tian, Yuan - 2021
We document a causal effect of conservative Fox News Channel in the United States on physical distancing during COVID-19 pandemic. We measure county-level mobility covering all U.S. states and District of Columbia produced by GPS pings to 15-17 million smartphones and zip-code-level mobility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013247387
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The McMansion Effect : Top House Size and Positional Externalities in U.S. Suburbs
Bellet, Clement - 2020
This paper provides direct field-level evidence of positional externalities in the size of neighboring houses. Combining data from the American Housing Survey with a geolocalized data set of three million suburban houses, I find that new constructions at the top of the house size distribution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012849433
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Retaining the thin blue line : what shapes workers' intentions not to quit the current work environment
Gächter, Martin; Savage, David; Torgler, Benno - 2010
The purpose of this study was to investigate the determinants of police officers' intentions to quit their current department. For this purpose, we analysed US survey data that included a large set of police officers from the Baltimore Police Department in Maryland. Our results indicate that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009736619