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Cultural diversity and cultural distance as choice determinants of migration destination
Wang, Zhiling; Graaff, Thomas de; Nijkamp, Peter - 2014
concerned, and estimate the migrants' varying preferences for both cultural diversity and cultural distance. To account for …
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Acculturational homophily in friendships based on English-name usage : a natural experiment
Xu, Dafeng - 2015
This paper examines acculturational homophily in friendships of international students. Acculturation (also known as cultural assimilation) is measured by English-name usage. I use data from Renren.com, a Facebook-type social networking site based in China. The sample consists of students who...
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Labor market outcomes of highly educated immigrants : does your name matter?
Xu, Dafeng - 2015 - (Very preliminary version)
Prior empirical research shows that acculturation in the host country might be positively related to immigrants? labor market outcomes. However, whether acculturation helps highly educated immigrants in the labor market is in question, as they have completed a significant fraction of human...
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Do better pre-migration skills accelerate immigrants' wage assimilation?
Hirsch, Boris; Jahn, Elke J.; Toomet, Ott; Hochfellner, … - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 30 (2014), pp. 212-222
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A cohort integration analysis of work and education participation among internal mobile and non-mobile immigrants by reason for immigration
Stambøl, Lasse Sigbjørn - 2016
The aim of the paper is to analyse immigrants' participation versus non-participation in the regional labour markets and/or in education. For comparison we have followed groups of immigrants by their reason for immigration, like refugees, labor-, family- and education-immigrants and Nordic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011882567
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Evading terror? : terror attacks and internal migration in Israel
Borstel, Johanna von; Gobien, Tom; Roth, Duncan - 2014 - Preliminary draft
flow of migrants from an origin subdistrict to a destination subdistrict on measures of terror incidents in the origin and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011487838
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Does tax enforcement counteract the negative effects of terrorism? : a case study of the Basque country
Salvadori, Luca - 2015
This paper analyses the impact of terrorism on tax enforcement policies by focusing on the case of the Basque Country …. The presence of externalities in tax administration attributable to the costs of terrorism is investigated by undertaking … sources. By employing ordered response models, evidence is found of the negative impact of terrorism on tax enforcement as it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476365
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How people perceive immigrants' role in their country's life : a comparative study of Estonia and Russia
Paas, Tiiu; Demidova, Olʹga Anatolʹevna - 2013
The paper aims to conduct a comparative analysis of possible determinants of peoples' attitudes towards immigrants depending on individual's socio-demographic and economic characteristics in Estonia and Russia. The empirical part of the paper relies on information provided in the European Social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011554847
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Arbeitszufriedenheit und Arbeitsbedingungen von Arbeitnehmern aus den „Gastarbeiter-Ländern" : Aspekte der betrieblichen Integration ausländischer Arbeiter im Lichte der Daten des...
Martin, Albert - In: Partnerschaft im Betrieb : zur Erinnerung an Eduard Gaugler, (pp. 67-103). 2016
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Acculturation process of the immigrant Turks living in Deventer, the Netherlands
Güzey, Özlem; Gültekin, Nevin; Kýrsaçlýoðlu, Ogan; … - 2014
Approximate populations of non-European origin in Europe are 3 - 4% of the total population. That is, people of many cultural backgrounds come to live together in a diverse society forming cultural groups that are not equal in power (numerical, economic, or political). Thus in both popular and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011505787