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Does health affect attitudes towards immigration? (2024)
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Does poor health lead to more negative attitudes towards immigration? Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (1999-2021) and the European Social Survey (2002-2021), I find that poorer subjective health, disability, as well as longstanding ph... Read More about Does health affect attitudes towards immigration?.

Does exposure to books foster a taste for spatial mobility? Home library size in childhood and adult migration intentions (2024)
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Does exposure to books in childhood encourage adult migration? We contend that it does—through reading, which provides a simulative experience and arouses readers’ curiosity, as well as raising their openness to new experiences, awareness of opportun... Read More about Does exposure to books foster a taste for spatial mobility? Home library size in childhood and adult migration intentions.

Forced displacement and subsequent generations’ migration intentions: Intergenerational transmission of family migration capital (2023)
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A growing body of evidence for the ‘family migration capital’ hypothesis–whereby migration experience in a family leads to a greater propensity to move among migrants’ descendants–has so far relied on accounts of any migration experience, including v... Read More about Forced displacement and subsequent generations’ migration intentions: Intergenerational transmission of family migration capital.

Does the emerging middle class support democracy? A comparative analysis of China, countries with authoritarian political regimes and recent post-socialist democracies (2023)
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Does the emerging middle class support democracy? This study provides a comparative analysis of political attitudes, actions, and preferences of the middle class in China, other countries characterized by authoritarian political regimes/tendencies (R... Read More about Does the emerging middle class support democracy? A comparative analysis of China, countries with authoritarian political regimes and recent post-socialist democracies.

Family influences on migration intentions: The role of past experience of involuntary immobility (2022)
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The article examines the relationship between past experience of involuntary immobility in a family and the current migration intentions of its members. While family migration experience has been shown to be positively related to migration intentions... Read More about Family influences on migration intentions: The role of past experience of involuntary immobility.

Do international tourist arrivals change residents’ attitudes towards immigration? A longitudinal study of 28 European countries (2022)
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Can international tourist arrivals change residents’ attitudes towards immigrants and immigration? We discuss possible underlying mechanisms and provide the first evidence on this question using data from the European Social Survey (2002–2019; n=333,... Read More about Do international tourist arrivals change residents’ attitudes towards immigration? A longitudinal study of 28 European countries.

Does emigration affect pro-environmental behaviour back home? A long-term, local-level perspective (2020)
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This study provides novel evidence on the effects of emigration on pro-environmental behaviour back home. Focusing on the seven successor states of former Yugoslavia, I explore the relationship between people’s present-day pro-environmental action an... Read More about Does emigration affect pro-environmental behaviour back home? A long-term, local-level perspective.

Former Communist party membership and present-day entrepreneurship (2020)
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After the collapse of communism in Central and Eastern Europe, former party members were particularly likely to start businesses and become entrepreneurs. What remains unclear, however, is whether this entrepreneurial activity was driven by the resou... Read More about Former Communist party membership and present-day entrepreneurship.

Can labor emigration affect education of girls? Evidence from Tajikistan (2019)
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This study examines how large-scale, predominantly male emigration affects the education of girls staying in Tajikistan, the poorest post-Soviet state and one of the most remittance-dependent economies in the world. Using data from a three-wave house... Read More about Can labor emigration affect education of girls? Evidence from Tajikistan.

To Europe or Not to Europe? Migration and Public Support for Joining the European Union in the Western Balkans (2019)
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© The Author(s) 2019. For decades, countries aspiring to join the European Union (EU) have been linked to it through migration. Yet little is known about how migration affects individual support for joining the EU in prospective member states. We exp... Read More about To Europe or Not to Europe? Migration and Public Support for Joining the European Union in the Western Balkans.

Emigration and alcohol consumption among migrant household members staying behind: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan (2018)
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© 2018 Elsevier Ltd Despite the growth of alcohol consumption and international migration in many developing countries, the links between the two remain underexplored. We study the relationship between emigration of household members, receiving remit... Read More about Emigration and alcohol consumption among migrant household members staying behind: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan.

Micro-entrepreneurship and subjective well-being: Evidence from rural Bangladesh (2018)
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© 2019 The Authors Microcredit has long been hailed as a powerful tool to promote livelihoods and reduce poverty through entrepreneurship. However, its impacts on people's subjective well-being remain underexplored. We present a unified theoretical f... Read More about Micro-entrepreneurship and subjective well-being: Evidence from rural Bangladesh.

Emigration, remittances, and the subjective well-being of those staying behind (2018)
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© 2018, The Author(s). We offer the first global perspective on the well-being consequences of emigration for those staying behind using several subjective well-being measures (evaluations of best possible life, positive affect, stress, and depressio... Read More about Emigration, remittances, and the subjective well-being of those staying behind.

Former Communist party membership and bribery in the post-socialist countries (2018)
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© 2018 Association for Comparative Economic Studies We study the effect of former Communist party membership on paying bribes to public officials and motivations for bribery, 25 years after the fall of communist rule. Data come from a large represent... Read More about Former Communist party membership and bribery in the post-socialist countries.

Adverse welfare shocks and pro-environmental behavior: Evidence from the global economic crisis (2018)
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© 2018 International Association for Research in Income and Wealth This paper examines the effects of the 2008–9 global economic crisis on people's pro-environmental behavior and willingness to pay for climate change mitigation. We hypothesize that t... Read More about Adverse welfare shocks and pro-environmental behavior: Evidence from the global economic crisis.

Beyond conflict: Long-term labour market integration of internally displaced persons in post-socialist countries (2017)
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© 2017 Elsevier Inc. The break-ups of the former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia were accompanied by some of the worst military conflicts in modern history, claiming lives of thousands of people and forcibly displacing millions. We study how people displ... Read More about Beyond conflict: Long-term labour market integration of internally displaced persons in post-socialist countries.

Local-level immigration and life satisfaction: The EU enlargement experience in England and Wales (2017)
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© 2017, © The Author(s) 2017. The 2004 European Union enlargement resulted in an unprecedented wave of 1.5 million workers relocating from Eastern Europe to the UK. We study the links between this migrant inflow and life satisfaction of native reside... Read More about Local-level immigration and life satisfaction: The EU enlargement experience in England and Wales.

Does emigration reduce corruption? (2017)
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© 2017, The Author(s). We study the effects of emigration on bribery experience and attitudes towards corruption in the migrants’ countries of origin. Using data from the Gallup Balkan Monitor survey and instrumental variable analysis, we find that h... Read More about Does emigration reduce corruption?.

What do unions do in times of economic crisis? Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe (2016)
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© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. Over the last two decades, trade union membership in Central and Eastern Europe has been in continuous decline, and unions in the region are generally considered weak. However, little is known about the actual relevance... Read More about What do unions do in times of economic crisis? Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe.

Happy Hosts? International Tourist Arrivals and Residents’ Subjective Well-being in Europe (2016)
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© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. While there has been a growing interest in the relationship between perceived tourism impacts and residents’ quality of life, little is known about how residents’ well-being is affected by actual tourist arrivals. This a... Read More about Happy Hosts? International Tourist Arrivals and Residents’ Subjective Well-being in Europe.