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Microeconometric analyses on economic consequences of selective migration

Ruhose, Jens - 2015

. Die Arbeit besteht aus vier eigenständigen Kapiteln, die Erkenntnisse zur Integration von Migranten und den Auswirkungen … von Migranten auf Einheimische im Zielland liefern. Gerade vor dem Hintergrund, dass der Anteil an Migranten in der … Migrationshintergrund hemmt. Kapitel 4 und 5 befassen sich mit den Effekten von Migranten auf die Gesellschaft des Ziellandes. Einmal wird …

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Not always for richer or poorer : the effects of income shocks and house price changes on marital dissolution

Brown, Heather W.; Battu, Harminder; Costa-Gomes, Miguel A. - 2013

There has been much informal speculation on how changes in economic circumstances contribute to partnership dissolution; however there has been little empirical work testing these speculations. This paper aims to shed light on how micro level factors such as receiving a financial windfall and...

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How immigration reduced social capital in the US : 2005-2011

Freire, Tiago; Li, Xiaoye - 2013

Putnam (1995)'s seminal work was one of the first to describe the decline of social capital in the US after the 1960s, a period that saw a large increase in the flow of immigrants into the US. Using the Volunteer Supplement of the September Sample of the Current Population Survey (CPS) between...

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Essays on the heterogeneity of immigrant groups in the United States : testable implications using human capital theory

Cortes, Kalena E. - 2002

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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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Shrinking population and the urban hierarchy

Kim, Ho Yeon - 2012 - A preliminary draft

This paper examines whether population shrinkage leads to changes in the urban hierarchy in terms of relative sizes of cities and their functions onomic geography. We work backwards in a racetrack economy with eight cities in a long-run equilibrium. Initial distribution of population is chosen...

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