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Using a rich data set of primary school students, this paper estimates the effects of immigrant concentration in the classroom on the academic achievement of natives. In contrast with previous contributions, it exploits rare information on age-at-migration to estimate separate spillover effects...
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To what extent does immigration affect the economic institutions in destination countries? While there is much evidence … that economic institutions in developed nations are either unaffected or improved after immigration, there is little … evidence of how immigration affects the economic institutions of developing countries that typically have weaker institutions …
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municipal level for 2007 to 2014, with monthly data on different types of crime rates and social program benefits by … municipalities, this paper assesses the effects of the program on crime rates in municipalities in El Salvador. There are several … possible channels through which the Temporary Income Support Program can affect crime. Since the program is associated with …
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This paper assesses the impact of immigration to Western Europe on the exposure of native-born workers to economic and …, are more exposed to the negative income shocks relative to the natives. The paper then examines whether immigration has an … relative to men. The paper does not find any significant effect of immigration on wages and employment, which indicates that …
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Using census data for 1996, 2001 and 2007 the authors study the labor market effect of immigration in South Africa. In … variation across schooling and experience groups used by Borjas (2003). The author estimate that increased immigration has a …
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Just like nearly every aspect of human experience, crime, civil conflict, and violence have become increasingly global … Internationalization of Crime, Conflict, and Violence, offers a unified framework to take stock of the theoretical and empirical literature … on crime, conflict, and violence and to discuss how the international community organizes itself to address security as a …
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Crime and violence impede development and disproportionally impact poor people in many countries across the world …. Though crime and violence represent serious problems in many countries, less-developed countries experience particular … that holistic approaches that focus on the entire spectrum of a government's crime response chain, ranging from crime …
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Crime and violence impede development and disproportionally impact poor people in many countries across the world …. Though crime and violence represent serious problems in many countries, less-developed countries experience particular … that holistic approaches that focus on the entire spectrum of a government's crime response chain, ranging from crime …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012644752
, which examined the organizational structure for investigating and prosecuting tax crime and corruption, as well as models …
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Although women's police centers have been gaining popularity as a measure to address domestic violence, to date no quantitative evaluations of their impacts on the incidence of domestic violence or any other manifestations of gender equality have been done. This paper estimates the effects of...
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