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with respect to wealth holdings and financial decisions. Immigrant household heads hold less net wealth than native along …
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with respect to wealth holdings and financial decisions. Immigrant household heads hold less net wealth than native, but …
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with respect to wealth holdings and financial decisions. Immigrant household heads hold less net wealth than native, but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012154394
The 2D:4D digit ratio, the ratio of the length of the 2nd digit to the length of the 4th digit, is often considered a proxy for testosterone exposure in utero. A recent study by Nicolaou et al. (2018) reported an association between the lefthand 2D:4D and self-employment (in a sample of about...
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In the recent past, in Italy, immigration has been at the centre of academic and policy debates. Nonetheless, the still … the phenomenon. In order to guide effective policy intervention, we offer an exhaustive view of immigration in Italy. We … studies. Our conclusions tell that evidence available for Italy does not match the policy relevance of an issue that has been …
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In the recent past, in Italy, immigration has been at the centre of academic and policy debates. Nonetheless, the still … the phenomenon. In order to guide effective policy intervention, we offer an exhaustive view of immigration in Italy. We … studies. Our conclusions tell that evidence available for Italy does not match the policy relevance of an issue that has been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014096808
This paper documents the effect of immigrant concentration on natives’ work schedules. I show that immigrants are more likely to work at non‐standard hours (i.e. evenings, nights and Sundays) and that a higher proportion of immigrants in the local labor market is associated with a lower...
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Ethnic religious organizations are often blamed for slowing down immigrants' assimilation in host societies. This paper offers the first systematic evidence on this topic by focusing on Italian Catholic churches in the US between 1890 and 1920, when four million Italians had moved to America,...
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.S. citizen or legal permanent resident spouses, we find that intensified interior immigration enforcement has curbed the VAWA … self-petition rate. In contrast, sanctuary policies limiting the cooperation of police with immigration authorities have … hypothesized changes in victims' reporting in response to the policies. Understanding survivors' responses to immigration policy is …
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Using the Children of the Immigrants Longitudinal Study (CILS), we examine the association between education at the intensive margin and twenty pecuniary and non-pecuniary adult outcomes among first- and second-generation American immigrant youth. Education at the intensive margin is measured by...
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