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Immigrants and gender roles: Assimilation vs. culture
Blau, Francine - In: IZA Journal of Migration 4 (2015), pp. 1-21
This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women … generations. It focuses particularly on labor supply but, for the second generation, also examines fertility and education. We … find considerable evidence that immigrant source country gender roles influence immigrant and second generation women …
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Kinderbetreuung versus Kindergeld: sind mehr Geburten und höhere Beschäftigung möglich?
Haan, Peter; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: DIW Wochenbericht 77 (2010) 30, pp. 2-4
Die Vereinbarkeit von Beruf und Familie ist seit einiger Zeit eines der wichtigsten familienpolitischen Ziele. Zum einen, weil es Eltern, insbesondere Müttern, erleichtert werden soll, erwerbstätig zu sein. Zum anderen, weil die Hoffnung besteht, dass die Geburtenrate steigt, wenn berufliche...
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Subjektives Wohlbefinden und demografische Ereignisse im Lebenslauf
Cihlar, Volker; Genoni, Andreas; Milewski, Nadja; … - In: WISTA – Wirtschaft und Statistik 75 (2023) 6, pp. 69-80
demographic events and processes, like fertility behaviour, international migration and ageing, from an international perspective …
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Mixed effects of remittances on child education
Bucheli, José R.; Bohara, Alok K.; Fontenla, Matías - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 8 (2018) 10, pp. 1-18
We exploit the size of the 2010 Ecuadorian Census to estimate the effect of remittances on secondary school enrollment across four key dimensions: gender, household wealth, rural vs. urban, and family migration status. Using a bivariate probit model that accounts for both endogeneity and...
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Analysis of Latin American Fertility in Terms of Probable Social Classes
Castro Torres, Andrés Felipe - In: European Journal of Population 37 (2020) 2, pp. 297-339
Theories of demographic change have not paid enough attention to how factors associated with fertility decline play … along with information on the reproductive histories of women born between 1920 and 1965 in six Latin American countries to … show the following: the enduring connection between social stratification and fertility differentials, the concomitance of …
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Raining stones? Female immigrants in the Spanish labour market
Antòn, José-Ignacio; de Bustillo, Rafael Muñoz; … - In: Estudios de Economía 39 (2012) 1, pp. 53-86
migrant women: gender and migrant condition. Our findings suggest that migrant women do face this double disadvantage. In both …
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Frauen in kommunalpolitischen Ämtern und ihr Einfluss auf die Wahlbeteiligung bei Gemeinderatswahlen
Stocker, Simon - In: WISTA - Wirtschaft und Statistik 76 (2024) 2, pp. 31-43
Women are still underrepresented in top political positions at the federal and Land levels in Germany. However … then explores to what extent the presence of women in political leadership positions at the local level has a positive …
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El efecto de China en el comercio internacional de América Latina
Montenegro, Claudio E.; Pereira, Mariana; Soloaga, Isidro - In: Estudios de Economía 38 (2011) 2, pp. 341-368
Using a gravity model, this article presents an analysis of aggregate trade flows aimed at identifying China's impact on Latin America's trade. The results obtained indicate that: i) China's growth in the last years implied a growing supply of exports to this market from most countries in the...
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The impact of human capital efficiency on Latin American mutual funds during Covid-19 outbreak
Mirza, Nawazish; Hasnaoui, Jamila Abaidi; Naqvi, Bushra; … - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 156 (2020) 1, pp. 1-7
The mutual funds' returns, inter alia, are dependent on fund managers' performance. This makes human capital efficiency very central for consistent risk-adjusted performance. The persistence in performance becomes more critical during periods of high turbulence, like the one we are experiencing...
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Migrants and the Making of America: The Shortand Long-Run Effects of Immigration During the Age of Mass Migration
Sequeira, Sandra; Nunn, Nathan; Qian, Nancy - In: ifo DICE Report 15 (2017) 3, pp. 30-34
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