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Measures of interpersonal trust : evidence on their cross-national validity and reliability based on surveys and experimental data

Carlin, Ryan E.; Love, Gregory J.; Smith, Conal - 2017

Interpersonal trust (i.e. trust in other people) is an issue of high interest to both policy-makers and researchers … seeking to understand what drives social and economic outcomes. However, for trust to usefully inform policy and analysis it … trust and other social and economic outcomes, evidence on the validity of trust from experimental data is conflicting. In …

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Triple disadvantage? : a first overview of the integration on refugee women

Liebig, Thomas; Tronstad, Kristian Rose - 2018

45% of refugees in Europe are women, yet little is known on their integration outcomes and the specific challenges they face. This report summarises prior research on the integration of refugee women, both compared with refugee men and other immigrant women. It also provides new comparative...

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Making the most of immigration in Canada

Carey, David - 2018

Canada’s immigration policy aims to promote economic development by selecting immigrants with high levels of human capital, to reunite families and to respond to foreign crises and offer protection to endangered people. Economic-class immigrants, who are selected for their skills, are by far...

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Improving the labour market integration of immigrants in Belgium

Pina, Álvaro Manuel; Corluy, Vincent; Verbist, Gerlinde - 2015

Immigrants make up one fifth of the Belgian working age population, but their labour market integration is poor. Employment rates of non-EU immigrants, in particular, are very low, and the problem extends to their native-born offspring. Further, with more precarious jobs and lower wages,...

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Overcoming skills shortages in Canada

Carey, David - 2014

Skills shortages have developed in certain fields and regions in recent years. Earnings premiums for people in some professions, notably health, engineering and skilled trades have increased. And vacancy rates have risen for skilled trades, with the increase being particularly large in Alberta...

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Fostering strong and relevant skills in Iceland

Koutsogeorgopoulou, Vassiliki; Brogi, Laura - 2019

Strong and relevant skills are vital for helping Iceland to adjust to rapidly changing technology and competition in the world economy and safeguard high prosperity and well-being. Many students, especially those with an immigration background, lack solid core skills and competences that weakens...

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Enhancing the social integration of Roma in Slovak Republic

Bednarik, Michaela; Hidas, Slavomir; Machlica, Gabriel - 2019

Roma account for almost one-tenth of the population in the Slovak Republic. They live mostly excluded from the general population in concentrated settlements, separated neighbourhoods or ghettos. The majority live in poverty and face social exclusion in almost all aspects of everyday life. Only...

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Improving well-being in New Zealand through migration

Carey, David - 2019

New Zealand’s immigration system aims to enhance well-being by promoting economic development, reuniting families and meeting humanitarian objectives. Immigration is high and residence admissions are focused on the high skilled to enhance economic outcomes. Empirical evidence suggests that...

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LGBTI in OECD countries : a review

Valfort, Marie-Anne - 2017

This paper presents an overview of the socio-economic situation of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender and intersex people (LGBTI), primarily in OECD countries. After investigating the size of this population, the paper zooms in on attitudes toward LGBTI, LGBTI rights and perceived...

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How self-sorting affects migrants’ labour market outcomes

Pareliussen, Jon Kristian - 2017

Assuming that immigrants select destinations according to absolute returns to their observable and unobservable human capital, I present a human capital model of migration accounting for taxes, transfers and limited portability of skills. The model predicts both segmented sorting of migrants to...

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