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London is one of the world's major cities, and one of its most diverse. London's cultural diversity is widely seen as a social asset, but there is little hard evidence on its importance for the city's businesses. Theory and evidence suggest various links between urban cultural diversity and...
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British cities have a surprisingly long history of cultural diversity. Recently they have become significantly more multicultural, with 'super-diversity' emerging in many urban neighbourhoods. Public interest in these changes is high, but there has been little research assessing their impacts....
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proximité géographique du lieu de départ de la migration est également favorable. Nous examinons enfin les déterminants du … of economic reforms, policies affecting migration in continental China have been redefined, which therefore greatly … intensified the internal migration flows. Since the 1980s, the rural depopulation has been essentially linked to the migration of …
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Our study examines the empirical links between social housing policy and location choices of immigrants in France. More specifically, we characterize the main individual and contextual determinants of the probability for immigrants to live in a HLM (habitations à loyer modéré, dwelling with a...
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British cities are becoming more culturally diverse, with migration a main driver. Is this growing diversity good for … urban economies? This paper explores, using a new 16-year panel of UK cities. Over time, net migration affects both local …
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evidence that differences in migrants' political attitudes are caused by pre-migration self-selection with regard to political … significantly in the wake of migration as migrants adapt to the norms and values prevailing in the host country. This change away …
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The nineties has been a period of increasing migratory flows from less developed countries to industrialized nations. It is instructive to compare the two largest economies in the world, the European Union and the United States, in terms of the magnitude, trends and composition of their...
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Recent economic literature on the impact of migration on the country of origin has not successfully analyzed the effect … of migration on unemployment and wage rate especially in urban area. Using a detailed CGE model applied to the moroccan … from Sub-Saharan Africa into Morocco and rural-urban migration, the impact on wage rate and unemployment is ambiguous. …
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A large part of the Italian welfare system is designed and implemented at the very local level, leading to a high degree of heterogeneity in the type and the generosity of available programs across the country. As a consequence, studies of welfare use based on standard household surveys may fail...
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Using the Ross tat panel data for the 2001–2008 period we estimate the gravity model of migration between Russian … regions. We show that though the migration flows have been quite stable, their determinants have changed substantially … factors are affecting migration between nearby regions. Yet our attempts to model the flows between distant (>500 km) places …
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