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Migration, Ethnicity and Economic Integration
Constant, Amelie F. - 2009
This chapter deals with the economic and ethnic diversity caused by international labor migration, and their economic integration possibilities. It brings together three strands of literature dealing with the neoclassical economic assimilation, ethnic identities and attitudes towards immigrants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153181
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Migration, Ethnicity and Economic Integration
Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2010
This chapter deals with the economic and ethnic diversity caused by international labor migration, and their economic integration possibilities. It brings together three strands of literature dealing with the neoclassical economic assimilation, ethnic identities and attitudes towards immigrants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014195981
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Introduction : Regulating Decent Work for Domestic Workers (Introduction: Réguler le travail décent pour les travailleuses domestiques)
Blackett, Adelle - 2017
This introductory article has two dimensions that are addressed simultaneously. First, it focuses on the international developments, to highlight and explore some of the findings of the International Labour Organization's (ILO) law and practice report on Decent Work for Domestic Workers. Second,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014122630
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Identifying the Determinants of Attitudes Towards Immigrants - a Structural Cross-Country Analysis
Brenner, Jan - 2008
Utilizing subjective data to infer on fundamental issues of individual opinion is associated with severe conceptual and methodological problems. This paper addresses these problems and investigates the attitudes towards immigrants within a cross-country framework. To this end, we utilize data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012726921
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Identifying the Determinants of Attitudes Towards Immigrants : A Structural Cross-Country Analysis
Fertig, Michael; Brenner, Jan - 2021
Utilizing subjective data to infer on fundamental issues of individual opinion is associated with severe conceptual and methodological problems. This paper addresses these problems and investigates the attitudes towards immigrants within a cross-country framework. To this end, we utilize data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317439
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Effects of emigration on gender norms in countries of origin
Azarnert, Leonid V.; Yakubenko, Slava - 2021
This paper studies the effect of emigration on gender norms in countries of migrants' origin. We use an instrumental … variable strategy that allows us to estimate a causal effect of emigration on gender inequality. Our findings suggest that … emigration to countries with low (high) levels of gender inequality is associated with promotion of more (less) progressive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012694149
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Does gender equality promote social trust? : an empirical analysis
Cho, Seo-Young - 2015
find that gender discriminatory values negatively affect the trust level of both men and women, while actual conditions on … gender equality, measured by labor and educational attainments and political participation, are not a significant determinant … of social trust. Furthermore, fairness towards women is an important factor of social trust in countries where gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010491793
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Islamism and gender relations in the muslim world as reflected in recent world values survey data
Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2016
more perplexing since gender equality, particularly in education and employment, significantly contributes to economic … factor" and what these authors call "gender ideology". Our analysis of the "gender ideology" of Islamism and gender values is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450353
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Islamism and Gender Relations in the Muslim World as Reflected in Recent World Values Survey Data
Tausch, Arno - 2016
more perplexing since gender equality, particularly in education and employment, significantly contributes to economic … factor" and what these authors call "gender ideology". Our analysis of the "gender ideology" of Islamism and gender values is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013000073
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Disadvantages of linguistic origin : evidence from immigrant literacy scores
Isphording, Ingo Eduard - 2013
This study quantifies the disadvantage in the formation of literacy skills of immigrants that arises from the linguistic distance between mother tongue and host country language. Combining unique cross-country data on literacy scores with information on the linguistic distance between languages,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009687734