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The ethnographic approach to social mobility

Vaid, Divya - 2020

The ethnographic approach has much to contribute to our understanding of social mobility. This paper provides a discussion on ethnography as a method and approach to writing and description, and reviews some ways in which themes related to social mobility in the developing world have been...

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Frictional labor mobility

Schmutz, Benoît; Sidibé, Modibo - 2017

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The ambiguous role of ethnic context : a multi-level analysis of the relationship between group size and labor market integration of three immigrant groups in Germany

Scheller, Friedrich - 2017

The paper analyses the role of the relative regional group size for the labor market integration of three different ethnic groups in Germany. The analysis addresses the question of whether there is a consistent group size effect, or if group size functions differently for different immigrant...

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Fleeing the peace? : determinants of outward migration after civil war

Haaß, Felix; Kurtenbach, Sabine; Strasheim, Julia - 2016

argue that three specific features of post‐war situations explain the varying levels of outward migration: the quality of … the major drivers of outward migration after civil war. Complementary evidence from the two case studies shows that the …

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Fighting mobile crime

Crinò, Rosario; Immordino, Giovanni; Piccolo, Salvatore - 2019

their territory. Crime is mobile, ex ante (migration) and ex post (fleeing), and criminals hiding abroad after having com …

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Educating Europe

Poutvaara, Panu - 2004

The mobility of labor reduces national incentives to invest in internationally applicable education. The European Union could overcome this by allowing member states to institute graduate taxes or income-contingent loans, collected also from migrants. This paper presents calculations on how a...

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Zur landesspezifischen Erfassung des Migrationshintergrunds in der Schulstatistik - (k)ein gemeinsamer Nenner in Sicht?

Kemper, Thomas - 2016

Der Beitrag gibt Auskunft über den Stand der Erfassung von Migration in den amtlichen Schulstatistiken der Bundesländer … migration background will be presented and differentiated by the specific definition of migration background in the federal … federal school statistics into a national school statistic. Based on the available migration attributes the educational …

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Immigration and heterogeneous labor in Western Germany : a labor market classification based on nonparametric estimation

Frölich, Markus; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2002

This paper presents a methodology to identify net demand shocks as well as wage rigidities in heterogeneous labor markets on the basis of nonparametric regression. We show how this approach can be used to make suggestions for immigration policy in economies with labor market rigidities. In an...

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Mobility in an enlarging European Union : projections of potential flows from EU's eastern neighbors and Croatia

Fertig, Michael; Kahanec, Martin - 2013

This study evaluates potential migration flows to the European Union from its eastern neighbors and Croatia. We perform …-enlargement migration flows following the EU's 2004 enlargement. We consider two baseline policy scenarios, with and without accession of … sending countries to the EU. Our results show that migration flows are driven by migration costs and economic conditions, but …

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Essays on international migration and informal markets in developing countries

Böhme, Marcus - 2013

: migration and informal markets. To mitigate the problems of both migration and the informal sector, and harness their … international migration and household investments addressing the problem of brain drain and the use of remittances. Es... …

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