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A Bourdieusian Perspective on Acculturation: Mexican Immigrants in the United States

Prieto, Leonel; Sagafi-nejad, Tagi; Janamanchi, Balaji - In: Administrative Sciences 3 (2013) 4, pp. 290-305

This article uses Bourdieu’s theory of practice (BTOP) to understand immigrants’ acculturation. It synthesizes research findings by discussing acculturation as: (1) equalization of immigrants’ and natives’ development (convergence); (2) language and social practices related to economic,...

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Sustainable effects of technological progress and trade liberalization

Shachmurove, Yochanan; Spiegel, Uriel - In: Economic Modelling 33 (2013) C, pp. 956-964

This paper examines the controversy involving international trade by employing a simple model. It analyzes the effects of unilateral technological improvements in one entity on the welfare of that entity and its trading partners. Improvements in one country are irreversible and lead to...

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Are All Technological Improvements Beneficial? Absolutely Not

Shachmurove, Yochanan; Spiegel, Uriel - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2013

This paper shows, using a simple model, that wasteful innovations may result in a loss-loss situation where no country experiences an increase in welfare. If some countries introduce innovations that result in harmful effects on other countries, it may cause the adversely affected countries to...

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Ricardo Meets China, India and U.S. Three Hundred Years Later

Shachmurove, Yochanan; Spiegel, Uriel - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2009

As our trading world becomes more globalized, who benefits and who gets hurt? This paper relies on the Ricardian model to explore the effects of technological improvements in underdeveloped countries on the welfare of developed countries. For example, trading between the United States and China,...

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"Intergenerational Mobility in Latin America"

Behrman, Jere R.; Gaviria, Alejandro; Székely, Miguel - In: ECONOMIA JOURNAL OF THE LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN … (2001)

, and that mobility in Latin America is strongly associated with schooling levels and expenditures on education. …

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Population Change and Changing Educational Attainment of Ethnic Groups in the United States, 1980–2000

Wilson, Franklin; Rebhun, Uzi; Rivas, Salvador - In: Population Research and Policy Review 30 (2011) 4, pp. 639-659

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Wealth of recent immigrants to the USA

Ketkar, Suhas L.; Dora, Manoj K. - In: International Journal of Economic Policy in Emerging … 4 (2011) 4, pp. 330-344

Developing countries' ability to issue diaspora bonds depends upon the wealth of their diaspora. We use the New Immigrants Survey data to determine the wealth accumulation and assets diversification of recent immigrants to the USA from different regions of the world. Our quantile (median)...

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Effects of child and adolescent health on educational progress

Lê, Félice; Diez Roux, Ana; Morgenstern, Hal - In: Social Science & Medicine 76 (2013) C, pp. 57-66

Understanding how childhood and adolescent health may affect schooling is important for understanding the socioeconomic ramifications of poor early-life health as well as the relations between schooling and adult health. Using three waves of U.S. longitudinal data with extensive covariate...

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Harvesting hardships: Educators’ views on the challenges of migrant students and their consequences on education

Free, Janese L.; Križ, Katrin; Konecnik, Jenny - In: Children and Youth Services Review 47 (2014) P3, pp. 187-197

students’ education and, ultimately, social mobility. We find that migrant students face five major challenges that may … adversely affect their education and social mobility: (1) cultural barriers, including language and communication and students … migrant students’ education. Lastly, we discuss our findings in the context of existing scholarship and present implications …

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The Linkages Between Productivity and Social Progress: An Introduction and Overview

Banting, Keith; Sharpe, Andrew; St-Hilaire, France - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …

between population, education, health and social divergence and productivity. In the fourth section, three papers address the …

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