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The effect of immigration on natives' well-being in the European Union

O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2019 - Version: May 24, 2019

Immigration is one of the most debated topics in Europe today, yet little is known about the overall effect of its … member states) using macro data aggregated from Eurobarometer surveys. Immigration does not statistically affect natives … subgroups, notably the poorly educated and elderly. Refugees also do not statistically affect the well-being of natives. Any …

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Relationship of Ethical Behavior with Material Well-being and Happiness : An Islamic Perspective

Khan, Muhammad - 2019

The paper explores relationship of ethical behavior with material well-being (MWB) and happiness from Islamic perspective. The Qur'an discusses MWB under a broad concept of ‘rizq' and asserts that God distributes rizq among people. For understanding this general assertion, we speculate that...

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Social Preferences and Well-Being : Theory and Evidence

Iwasaki, Masaki - 2022

The education systems of many countries emphasize the development of prosocial preferences. Clarifying how these preferences are related to well-being is therefore essential. Although many studies have shown that particular prosocial behaviors increase subjective well-being, it is unclear...

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Sociability, Altruism and Subjective Well-Being

Becchetti, Leonardo; Corrado, Luisa; Conzo, Pierluigi - 2014

We provide non experimental evidence of the relevance of sociability on subjective wellbeing by investigating the determinants of life satisfaction on a large sample of Europeans aged above 50. We document that voluntary work, religious attendance, helping friends/neighbours and participation to...

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Happiness and Attitudes toward Bribery : Summaries of 19 Studies

McGee, Robert W.; Benk, Serkan - 2022

This chapter summarizes the results of 19 studies that were conducted on the relationship between happiness and attitude toward bribery. Additional summaries will be published in the second volume of this series, The Ethics of Bribery: Country Studies

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Life satisfaction of immigrants : does cultural assimilation matter?

Angelini, Viola; Casi, Laura; Corazzini, Luca - 2014

We empirically assess the relationship between cultural assimilation and subjective well-being of immigrants by using the German Socio-Economic Panel, a longitudinal dataset including information on both the economic and non-economic conditions of the respondents. We find that the more...

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Local-level immigration and life satisfaction : the EU enlargement experience in England and Wales

Ivlevs, Artjoms; Veliziotis, Michail - 2015

Scheme, we find that higher local level immigration increased life satisfaction of young people and decreased life … level immigration increased natives' satisfaction with their dwelling, partner and social life …

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Divided we stand : immigration attitudes, identity, and subjective well-being

Welsch, Heinz; Kühling, Jan - 2017

Immigration is a crucial issue in contemporary politics, and attitudes towards immigration are highly dispersed in many … countries. We treat individuals' immigration friendliness (IF) as a feature of their self-image or identity and hypothesize that …, similar to other pro-social self-images, greater immigration friendliness is associated with greater subjective well …

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Racial diversity, immigrants and the well-being of residents : evidence from U.S. counties

Kuroki, Masanori - 2017

This paper presents empirical evidence that racial diversity and immigrant population at the local level tend to be associated with lower life satisfaction for Whites by matching individual data with the county-level population data during the period 2005-2010. The magnitudes I find suggest that...

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Is immigration good for Europe? : long-run evidence using comprehensive well-being

O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2024

The immigrant (foreign-born) population increased by 32 million in total across 37 European countries from 1990 to 2019. Much of this movement was from east to west. Indeed, both the total and foreign-born populations declined in the former Eastern Bloc over this period. Such demographic shifts...

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