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This is the final report of the impact evaluation of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Summer Medical and Dental Education Program (SMDEP). SMDEP provides science enrichment opportunities to minority and disadvantaged college students interested in attending medical or dental school. The goal...
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Hybridität, diversity und Transkulturalität im integrationstheoretischen Diskurs auseinander. Er bleibt jedoch nicht auf der …International migration and the increasing diversity of the population are highly topical social-political issues in … hybridity, diversity and transculturality in integration theory discourse. However, discussion is not restricted to the …
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Although increasing diversity at the national scale is a well-documented trend, substantial variation in patterns of … calculate panethnic (five-group) entropy index scores to measure the magnitude of diversity for nearly 11,000 census …-defined places. Our results indicate that while certain places reach their diversity peak in 1980 or 1990, they are few in number …
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Exploring Ostrom?s approach to property rights and institutions is fundamental to any effort aimed at ?reconsidering property? by discussing the existing ?alternative conceptualizations?. Beyond the fact that Ostrom was the first to introduce a conceptualization of common property based on the...
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This paper explores how diversity affects individuals’ employment prospects, using data from the French Labor Force … Survey. Employment correlates positively with local labor market diversity, but negatively with neighborhood diversity. Using … an instrumental variable approach to deal with local labor market diversity drives the positive correlation to zero …
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those in more competitive markets would have greater resident racial/ethnic diversity than nursing homes not meeting these … = 8950) located in 310 Metropolitan Statistical Areas. The dependent variable quantified facility-level multiracial diversity …, greater residential diversity, and stronger market competition were also positively associated with nursing home racial …
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of intercultural opening of health care in Germany as well as within the concept of diversity management of health care … the one hand, and diversity management on the other hand with respect to elderly care will be evaluated. Whereas the … intercultural opening directly demands a reduction of barriers to access institutional elderly care the concept of diversity is …
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Issues related to the standard of living are key aspects of regional policy and social development strategies. The standard of living is synonymous with the terms being, quality of life and well-being. For many years, the basic measure of the standard of living was GDP per capita. In 2012,...
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This paper reviews a growing literature investigating how ‘immigrant’ diversity relates to urban economic performance …
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Cultural diversity – in various forms – has in recent years turned into a prominent and relevant research and … policy issue. There is an avalanche of studies across many disciplines that measure and analyse cultural diversity and its … impacts. Based on different perspectives and features of the available data, a great variety of diversity indicators have …
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