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Location choices of migrant nest-leavers: Spatial assimilation or continued segregation?

Zorlu, Aslan; Mulder, Clara H. - 2010

We examine ethnic differences in the ethnic composition of the destination neighbourhood upon leaving the parental home using administrative data for the entire birth cohort 1983 living in the Netherlands. The analysis provides little evidence of a clear intergenerational break in the location...

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Might not be a tomorrow: a multi-methods approach to anticipated early death and youth crime

Brezina, Timothy; Tekin, Erdal; Topalli, Volkan - 2008

factor to youth crime and violence. Young people who perceive a high probability of early death, it is argued, may have … early death and youth crime, this support remains tentative. Moreover, a number of questions remain regarding the … that link anticipated early death to youth crime. In this paper, we address the limitations of previous studies using a …

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Children and parents time use: empirical evidence on investment in human capital in France, Italy and Germany

Cardoso, Ana Rute; Fontainha, Elsa; Monfardini, Chiara - 2008

We analyze a mechanism that has been disregarded in the literature on parental investment in children, as little attention has been devoted to the choices made by children themselves. We model directly time use by youngsters into activities related to the acquisition of human capital,...

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Does Federally-Funded Job Training Work? Nonexperimental Estimates of WIA Training Impacts Using Longitudinal Data on Workers and Firms

Andersson, Fredrik; Holzer, Harry J.; Lane, Julia; … - 2013

We study the job training provided under the US Workforce Investment Act (WIA) to adults and dislocated workers in two states. Our substantive contributions center on impacts estimated non-experimentally using administrative data. These impacts compare WIA participants who do and do not receive...

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Do Firms Benefit from Active Labour Market Policies?

Lechner, Michael; Wunsch, Conny; Scioch, Patrycja - 2013

This paper investigates the link between variation in the supply of workers who participate in specific types of active labour market policies (ALMPs) and firm performance using a new exceptionally informative German employer-employee data base. For identification we exploit that German local...

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Dropping out of School? A Competing Risks Analysis of Young Immigrants? Progress in the Educational System

Jakobsen, Vibeke; Rosholm, Michael - 2003

This paper analyses the drop-out and graduation behaviour of young 1st generation immigrants enrolled in a qualifying education in the period 1984-1999. The descriptive analyses show that the low educational achievements among young immigrants compared to young ethnic Danes found in other...

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Young people's attitudes towards Muslims in Sweden

Bevelander, Pieter; Otterbeck, Jonas - 2007

Since the 1950's, the Muslim population in Sweden has grown from just a few individuals to approximately 350,000 of which one third is of school age or younger. With the use of multiple regression technique, the principal objective of this study has been to clarify and examine young people's...

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Symbolic values, value formation and interpersonal relations

Corneo, Giacomo - 2009

Interpersonal relations are shaped by the judgements associated with the social categories that individuals perceive in their social contacts. I develop a model of how those judgments form based on a theory of symbolic values. The model depicts the interaction between two values, one associated...

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A profile of the world's young developing country migrants

McKenzie, David - 2007

around the world. Youth are found to comprise a large share of all migrants, particularly in migration to other developing … occupations than older migrants or native youth. Nevertheless, there is also considerable heterogeneity amongst youth migrants: 29 …Individual level census and household survey data are used to present a rich profile of the young developing migrants …

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Extremism within the family

Epstein, Gil S. - 2006

social traits of parents has an effect on the segregation of minorities and migrants. …

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