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Some considerations on China's minorities in the 21st century: Conflict or conciliation?

Heberer, Thomas - 2000

On a global scale, there has been a significant increase of ethnic conflicts in the last decade. They constitute one of the main sources of domestic political instability in multi-national countries. Recent opinion polls among Chinese citizens point to growing ethnic conflicts even in China....

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Poverty Reduction, Wealth Creation, and Tourism in Ethnic Minority Communities in Mainland Southeast Asia

Hipsher, Scott - In: International Journal of Sustainable Entrepreneurship … 2 (2017) 1, pp. 39-53

This article describes how there is a debate over the benefits and costs of international tourism and engagement with international trading networks for people living in areas where poverty continues to affect a large percentage of the population. An examination of the perspectives of ethnic...

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EU referenda in the Baltics: understanding the results at the regional level

Hazans, Mihails - 2004

The papers analyses regional differences in EU referenda results in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. In each of the three countries, other things being equal, high income regions were significantly more pro-European than low-income ones, while regions with a high share of ethnic minorities were...

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The Role of Social Networks in Cultural Assimilation

Verdier, Thierry; Zenou, Yves - 2015

We develop a model where, in the first stage, minority individuals have to decide whether or not they want to assimilate to the majority culture while, in the second stage, all individuals (both from the majority and the minority group) embedded in a network have to decide how much effort they...

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Forming of the new ethnic image of St.Petersburg

Krasnov, Anton; Zhitin, Dmitriy - 2015

influx of migrants from the Republic of former Soviet Union led to the formation of new large ethnic communities. The paper …

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Partner ethnicity and ethnic minority socio-economic occupation evidence from the UK

Morando, Greta - 2014

What role does integration play in reducing disparities in the labour market between ethnic minority and white majority populations? We shed light on this question by comparing the socio-economic positions of ethnic minorities in co- and inter-ethnic partnerships. We implement propensity score...

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Effects of Ethnic Geographical Clustering on Educational Attainment in the Netherlands

de Graaff, Thomas; Gorter, Cees; Nijkamp, Peter - 2001

Contemporary migration studies witness an increasing interest in the socio-economicrole of networks of migrants. Such … purelyeconomic factors like unemployment and wage levels in importance. The empiricalmeasurement and analysis of migrants' networks … developed by Ellisonand Glaeser (the gamma coefficient), with a view to the measurement of spatial clusteringof migrants in the …

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Car ownership and the Labor Market of Ethnic Minorities

Gautier, Pieter A.; Zenou, Yves - 2008

We show how small initial wealth differences between low skilled black and white workers can generate large differences in their labor-market outcomes. This even occurs in the absence of a taste for discrimination against blacks or exogenous differences in the distance to jobs. Because of the...

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Migration, Friendship Ties and Cultural Assimilation

Facchini, Giovanni; Patacchini, Eleonora; Steinhardt, Max - 2014

Using novel information from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the period 1996-2011, we document that migrants with a …

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Ethnic Spatial Dispersion and Immigrant Identity

Constant, Amelie F.; Schüller, Simone; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2013

Ethnic groups tend to agglomerate and assemble, mostly in urban areas. While ethnic clustering is critically debated in societies and the consequences for economic outcomes are under debate in research, the process is not yet well understood. A separate literature has also examined the cultural...

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