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Unsuccessful subjective well-being assimilation among immigrants: The role of faltering perceptions of the host society
Hendriks, Martijn; Burger, Martijn J. - 2018
predictions of straight-line assimilation theory, along with the general improvement of immigrants’ objective living conditions … with their length of stay. Using European Social Survey data, we show that the subjective well-being assimilation of first … perceptions continue to impair subjective well-being assimilation across generations. However, compared with natives, first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011932351
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When the Quality of a Nation triggers Emigration
van Dalen, Hendrik P.; Henkens, Kène - 2006
Why do people leave high-income countries with extensive welfare states? This article will examine what underlies the emigration intentions of native-born inhabitants of one industrialized country in particular: the Netherlands. To understand emigration from high-income countries we focus not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325160
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Regional Economic Impacts of Immigration: A Review
Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2009
A burgeoning literature has emerged during the last two decades to assess the economic impacts of immigration on host countries. In recent years much research has been at the national level under the assumption that impacts in open regions may dissipate through adjustment processes such as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326002
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Tax incentives for high skilled migrants: evidence from a preferential tax scheme in the Netherlands
Timm, Lisa Marie; Giuliodori, Massimo; Muller, Paul - 2022
This paper examines to what extent an income tax exemption affects international mobility and wages of skilled immigrants. We study a preferential tax scheme for foreigners in the Netherlands, which introduced an income threshold for eligibility in 2012 and covers a large share of the migrant...
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Migrants and International Economic Linkages : A Meta-Overview
Gheasi, Masood - 2011
The rapid growth in the foreign-born population in many high and middle-income countries in the past decades has prompted much research on the socio-economic impacts of immigration. The migration issue has become one of the most debated subjects in many developed countries. Since the early...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119265
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Migration and Foreign Direct Investment : Education Matters
Gheasi, Masood - 2011
The rapid growth in the foreign-born population in many high and middle-income countries in recent decades has prompted much research on the socio-economic determinants and impacts of immigration. This paper investigates the relationship between the stock of foreign population by nationality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119945
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Employment Assimilation of Immigrants in the Netherlands
Zorlu, Aslan; Hartog, Joop - 2008
Using two Dutch labour force surveys, employment assimilation of immigrants is examined. We observe marked differences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325696
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Mortgage Finance and Technological Change
Döttling, Robin; Perotti, Enrico - 2015
We explore how house prices evolve under technological progress, when housing serves for consumption as well as store of value. Technological change leads to human capital substituting physical capital and manual labor. Reduced use of physical capital implies that firms have less tangible...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403537
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Dual Earners, Urban Labor Markets and Housing Demand
Rouwendal, Jan; van der Straaten, Willemijn - 2003
This paper replicates Costa and Kahn's analysis of locational choices of couples of highly educated persons for the Netherlands. We find increasing concentration of such power couples in the urbanized western part of the country. This trend occurs in spite of the absence of an urban wage premium...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324969
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Homeownership and Labour Market Behaviour: Interpreting the Evidence
Rouwendal, Jan; Nijkamp, Peter - 2007
This paper reviews the empirical research that has been generated by Oswald’s thesis, which claims that there is a causal relationship from homeownership to unemployment. The literature confirms a decreasing effect of homeownership on geographical mobility of workers, but does not in general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325367