Purpose – The purpose of this study is to examine the empirical links between social housing policy and location choices of immigrants in France. Design/methodology/approach – The study characterizes the main individual and contextual determinants of the probability of immigrants to live in...

For the first time in economics use this phrase - "rare earth economy" as a discipline border, which is holding up the subject of the Economy as General Science, to the subject of this new frontier scientific disciplines - economics RARE EARTH - studying production, distribution, circulation and...

The paper studies the impact of unemployment benefits on immigration. A sample of 19 European countries observed over the period 1993 to 2008 is used to test the hypothesis that unemployment benefit spending (UBS) is correlated with immigration flows from EU and non-EU origins. While OLS...

This paper focuses on the determinants of self-employment among rural to urban migrants in China. Two self-selection mechanisms are analysed: the first relates to the manner in which migrants choose self-employment or paid work based on the potential gains from either type of employment; the...

We study the thermal properties of the quantum and classical models of the Fe4 and Fe8 SMMs in the presence of an arbitrary constant magnetic field, obtaining the β-expansions of the Helmholtz free energy of the models up to orders β26, β25 and β26 for the spin-5 (Fe4), the spin-10 (Fe8) and...