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If policy-makers care about well-being, they need a recursive model of how adult life-satisfaction is predicted by childhood influences, acting both directly and (indirectly) through adult circumstances. We estimate such a model using the British Cohort Study (1970). The most powerful childhood...
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This study examines the relationship between the diffusion of IT and changes in collaboration patterns across … natural sciences and narrower fields such as economics and biology. Two measures of institutional collaboration are examined … collaboration patterns across universities and then use regression analysis to examine the impact of IT exposure on multi …
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inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors and a novel identification strategy, this paper … show that physical proximity is an important influence on collaboration, but is mediated by organisational and ethnic …
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A Trial Introduction Program (TIP) for newly-arrived immigrants to Sweden was implemented from October 2006 to June 2008 in order to meet the main criticisms directed at existing introduction programs. Two primary innovations were introduced, flexible language instruction parallel with other...
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Using a new data on 590 Turkish households in Berlin, we investigate the determinants and impact of integration on … economic performance. We find that usual suspects such as time spent in Germany and education have positive impact, while … networks have no impact on integration. There is strong evidence that political integration and the degree of full integration …
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Erfolgsaussichten für die gesellschaftliche Integration, die bei höher qualifizierten Zuwanderern durchweg sehr viel leichter gelingt …. Das enthebt Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft nicht der Aufgabe, auch die Integration der schon in Deutschland lebenden … Migrationshintergrund nicht länger leisten. Sie braucht beides: mehr qualifizierte Zuwanderung und mehr Integration. …
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integration in the different European countries, their position in the wage distribution, and the situation of their children, and …
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. Exploiting the quasi-experimental guest worker placement across German regions during the 1960/70s as well as information on … concentration on social integration. The exogenous placement of immigrants "switches off" observable and unobservable differences in …-ethnics increases migrants' interaction cost with natives and thus reduces the likelihood of integration. …
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In this paper the hypothesis that partnerships between immigrants and natives are less specialized – in the sense that spouses provide similar working hours per weekday – than those between immigrants is tested. The empirical analysis relies on panel data using a two-limit random effects...
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Die öffentliche Debatte um Zuwanderung und Integration wird auch heute, ein halbes Jahrhundert nach dem Beginn der …
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