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The Integration of Religious Minorities in China: The Case of Chinese Muslims
Leslie, Donald Daniel - eSocialSciences - 2006
assimilation. [George Ernest Morrison Lecture on Ethnography, 1998, The Contemporary China Centre] …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528324
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Immigrant Assimilation and Welfare Participation: Do Immigrants Assimilate Into or Out-of Welfare
Hansen, Jörgen; Lofstrom, Magnus - eSocialSciences - 2010
This paper analyzes differences in welfare utilization between immigrants and natives in Sweden using a large panel data set, LINDA, for the years 1990 to 1996. Both welfare expenditures and immigration increased in Sweden in the 1990’s. We find that immigrants use welfare to a greater...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008465658
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Vote-Buying and Reciprocity
Finan, Frederico; Schechter, Laura - eSocialSciences - 2009
In this paper, how social preferences overcome the commitment problems implicit in vote-buying is examined. Data used for the study is a survey information on vote-buying experienced in a 2006 municipal election in Paraguay, with information on behavior in experiments carried out in 2002....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487857
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India’s Population: Past, Present and Future
Dyson, Tim - eSocialSciences - 2009
This paper presents a lecture delivered by the author under The Pravin Visaria Public Lecture in GIDR. India has made considerable demographic progress since 1947; however it seems that the country’s population will reach about 1.4 billion by the year 2026. In case of mortality, despite major...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004980027
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Unfree Mobility: Adivasi Women's Migration
Mazumdar, Indrani - eSocialSciences - 2014
migration among tribal women has not fundamentally altered their conditions of historical disadvantage in the agrarian economy … additional disadvantage. While the principal patterns of tribal women’s migration have been identified in the paper with an eye … on the nature of work/employment relations being shaped by their migration, and its implications for an equality and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133108
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The Return of the Prodigy Son: Do Return Migrants Make Better Leaders?
Mercier, Marion - eSocialSciences - 2013
This paper investigates the impact of political leaders’ migration experience on the quality of their leadership. A … results are confirmed by various robustness tests. They propose a new channel through which migration may affect politics in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133117
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Trade, Tastes and Nutrition in India
Atkin, David - eSocialSciences - 2013
similar consumers. This effect only disappears two generations after migration, as tastes adjust to local prices. These …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133123
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A Review of Internal and Regional Migration Policy in Southeast Asia
Hickey, Maureen; Narendra, Pitra; Rainwater, Katie - eSocialSciences - 2013
This working paper provides an overview of migration policy analysis in academic and policy (‘grey’) literature for … Southeast Asia, as well as a brief outline of the current migration policy environment in each of the eleven states of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133132
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An Investigation into Changes in Nagaland's Population between 1971 and 2011
Agrawal, Ankush; Kumar, Vikas - eSocialSciences - 2013
Nagaland’s population decreased during 2001–11 after growing at abnormally high rates during the past few decades. This is the first time since independence that a state in India has witnessed an absolute decline in population. In this context, the paper examines the census...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133199
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Inter-Regional Report on Labour Migration and Social Protection
Economic, United Nations; Commission, Social - eSocialSciences - 2014
labour migrants from the Asia-Pacific region. This inter-regional migration is managed under a regime aimed at ensuring that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133211