Migration and culture
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- ISBN: 0857241532
- ISBN: 9780857241535
- ISBN: 0857241540 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9780857241542 (electronic bk.)
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1 online resource (xxviii, 729 p.) : ill.
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electronic resource - Publisher: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2010.
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General Note: | CatBulkString:jan.03.13 Multi-User. CatMonthString:jan.13 Includes indexes. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
Formatted Contents Note: | ch. 1. Migration and culture / Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang -- ch. 2. Informational cascades and the decision to migrate / Gil S. Epstein -- ch. 3. The measurement of income polarization by ethnic groups : the case of Israel population / Joseph Deutsch -- ch. 4. The effects of school quality in the origin on the payoff to schooling for immigrants / Barry R. Chiswick, Paul W. Miller -- ch. 5. Development and migration : lessons from southern Europe / Riccardo Faini, Alessandra Venturini -- ch. 6. Geographic dispersion and internal migration of immigrants / Neeraj Kaushal, Robert Kaestner -- ch. 7. Understanding the wage dynamics of immigrant labor : a contractual alternative / Christoph M. Schmidt -- ch. 8. Interactions between local and migrant workers at the workplace / Gil S. Epstein, Yosef Mealem -- ch. 9. Ethnic competition and specialization / Martin Kahanec -- ch. 10. Nationality discrimination in the labor market : theory and test / Orn B. Bodvarsson, John G. Sessions -- ch. 11. Culture, investment in language and earnings / Erez Siniver -- ch. 12. Immigration : America's nineteenth-century 'law and order problem?' / Howard Bodenhorn, Carolyn M. Moehling, Anne Morrison Piehl -- ch. 13. A political economy of the immigrant assimilation : internation dynamics / Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang -- ch. 14. Assimilating under credit constraints : public support for private efforts / Sajal Lahiri -- ch. 15. Immigrant networks and the U.S. bilateral trade : the role of immigrant income / Kusum Mundra -- ch. 16. The societal integration of immigrants in Germany / Michael Fertig -- ch. 17. Who matters most? The effect of parent's schooling on children's schooling / Ira N. Gang -- ch. 18. Intergenerational transfer of human capital under post-war distress : the displaced and the Roma in the former Yugoslavia / Martin Kahanec, Mutlu Yuksel -- ch. 19. Household structure of recent immigrants to Israel / Sarit Cohen-Goldner -- ch. 20. Circular migration or permanent return : what determines different forms of migration? / Florin Vadean, Matloob Piracha -- ch. 21. Labor migration, remittances, and economic well-being : a study of households in Rajasthan, India / Yan Xing, Moshe Semyonov, Yitchak Haberfeld -- ch. 22. Promoting the educational success of Latin America immigrant children separated from parents during migration / Sara Z. Poggio, T.H. Gindling -- ch. 23. Cultural differences in the remittance behaviour of households : evidence from Canadian micro data / Don DeVoretz, Florin Vadean -- ch. 24. FSU immigrants in Canada : a case of positive triple selection? / Don DeVoretz, Michele Battisti -- ch. 25. What drives immigration policy? Evidence based on a survey of governments' officials / Giovanni Facchini, Anna Maria Mayda -- ch. 26. Changes in attitudes toward immigrants in Europe : before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall / Ira N. Gang, Francisco L. Rivera-Batiz, Myeong-Su Yun -- ch. 27. The implications of social norms on immigration policy -- ch. 28. Ethnic fragmentation, conflict, displaced persons and human trafficking : an empirical analysis. |
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