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This paper provides the first direct evidence on the determinants of link formation among immigrants in the host society. We use a purposely-designed survey on a representative sample of Sri Lankan immigrants living in Milan to study how migrants form social links among them and the extent to...
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The 2D:4D digit ratio, the ratio of the length of the 2nd digit to the length of the 4th digit, is often considered a proxy for testosterone exposure in utero. A recent study by Nicolaou et al. (2018) reported an association between the lefthand 2D:4D and self-employment (in a sample of about...
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We analyse the role of ethnic networks, segregation and diversity of a region on migrants' success in integration into … the host countries' labour markets. We find a robust negative impact of ethnic networks on unemployment probabilities of …-education our results are less robust, but in their majority point to a negative impact of ethnic networks on the probability of …
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formal sector a decade later, are subject to more severe ethnic segregation on the job and display less linguistic …
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formal sector a decade later, are subject to more severe ethnic segregation on the job and display less linguistic …
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We use a purposely-designed survey on Sri Lankan immigrants living in Milan to study their personal network. By taking a dyadic perspective we investigate how migrants form (weak and strong) social links among them in the host country, and the extent to which this network provides them material...
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This paper provides the first direct evidence on the determinants of link formation among immigrants in the host society. We use a purposely-designed survey on a representative sample of Sri Lankan immigrants living in Milan to study how migrants form social links among them and the extent to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013058394
This paper provides the first direct evidence on the determinants of link formation among immigrants in the host society. We use a purposely-designed survey on a representative sample of Sri Lankan immigrants living in Milan to study how migrants form social links among them and the extent to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057910
I have worried about the talk, in recent times, that immigrants hurt the wages of native workers in the host nation. If so, that is not a good outcome. Why should native workers lose out to immigrants? To come to terms with my worry, I began to experiment with a classic dataset on immigrants and...
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