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Food security and wheat prices in Afghanistan: A distribution-sensitive analysis of household-level impacts
D'Souza, Anna; Jolliffe, Dean - 2012
We investigate the impact of increases in wheat flour prices on household food security using unique nationally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282217
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Food Security and Wheat Prices in Afghanistan: A Distribution-Sensitive Analysis of Household-Level Impacts
D'Souza, Anna; Jolliffe, Dean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We investigate the impact of increases in wheat flour prices on household food security using unique nationally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010542045
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Couple's relative labor supply in intermarriage
Nottmeyer, Olga - 2011
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 tobit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278488
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Religiosity and migration: Travel into one's self versus travel across cultures
Aleksynska, Mariya; Chiswick, Barry R. - 2011
This paper examines differences in religious behaviors of the native born and immigrants in Europe, measured as self-reported religiosity, frequency of praying, and frequency of church attendance. Using the European Social Survey, we first show that, on average, religiosity of immigrants is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278604
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Is religiosity of immigrants a bridge or a buffer in the process of integration? A comparative study of Europe and the United States
García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - 2012
habits)?; (iii) how does religiosity of immigrants affect integration: is it serving as a bridge that smoothens integration … into the local population, or as a buffer against the harsh integration process?; and (iv) are the intersections between … religiosity and integration different in Europe and in the United States, due to historical differences in the state …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282226
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The evaluation of immigration policies
Rinne, Ulf - 2012
literature dealing with the evaluation of labor market programs and with the economic integration of immigrants. Next to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282269
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Immigration: The European experience
Dustmann, Christian; Frattini, Tommaso - 2011
integration in the different European countries, their position in the wage distribution, and the situation of their children, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282536
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Intergenerational transfer of human capital under post-war distress: The displaced and the Roma in the former Yugoslavia
Kahanec, Martin; Yuksel, Mutlu - 2010
In this chapter, we investigate the effects of vulnerability on income and employment in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia using a unique 2004 UNDP dataset. Treating the collapse of the former Yugoslavia as a natural experiment, we compare three groups that have been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285426
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Does intermarriage pay off? A panel data analysis
Nottmeyer, Olga - 2010
eventually intermarry receive greater returns to experience indicating better labor market integration. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285433
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Do ethnic enclaves impede immigrants' integration? Evidence from a quasi-experimental social-interaction approach
Danzer, Alexander M.; Yaman, Firat - 2012
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289989