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immediate shift of around 40 percent of one within standard deviation to more negative attitudes toward immigration and resulted …
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decades, it is important to know both how migrants integrate into the host countries and how immigration affects natives …-based tracking of children into different school types impede migrant integration. Chapters 4 and 5 cover the effect of immigration … on the host societies by showing that growing up in high immigration area increases intergenerational income mobility …
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In this paper we investigate the impact of technological change on inequalityin the presence of a landed elite using a standard unified growth model. We measure inequality by the ratio between land rent and wages and show that, before the onset of the fertility transition, technological progress...
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We use the elements of a macroeconomic production function—physical capital, human capital, labor, and technology—together with standard growth models to frame the role of religion in economic growth. Unifying a growing literature, we argue that religion can enhance or impinge upon economic...
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We use the elements of a macroeconomic production function - physical capital, human capital, labor, and technology - together with standard growth models to frame the role of religion in economic growth. Unifying a growing literature, we argue that religion can enhance or impinge upon economic...
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We use the elements of a macroeconomic production function-physical capital, human capital, labor, and technology-together with standard growth models to frame the role of religion in economic growth. Unifying a growing literature, we argue that religion can enhance or impinge upon economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014383297
I show how the influences of unskilled immigration, differential fertility between immigrants and the local indigenous … low-skilled workers lose from unskilled immigration even if the indigenous lowskilled workers do not finance …
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I show how the influences of unskilled immigration, differential fertility between immigrants and the local indigenous … low-skilled workers lose from unskilled immigration even if the indigenous low-skilled workers do not finance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270531
This research presents the first evidence that moderate fecundity had maximized long-run reproductive success in the human population. Using a reconstructed genealogy for nearly half a million individuals in Quebec during the 1608-1800 period, we find that while a high fecundity was associated...
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Hardly any studies have investigated the impact of migrant remittances on economic growth (EG) and inequality in the Western Balkans as a whole (WB6). Using the method of instrumental variables (VI), the findings show that while remittances influence economic growth, their inflow also promotes a...
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