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Happy Hosts? International Tourist Arrivals and Residents’ Subjective Well-being in Europe (2016)
Journal Article
Ivlevs, A. (2017). Happy Hosts? International Tourist Arrivals and Residents’ Subjective Well-being in Europe. Journal of Travel Research, 56(5), 599-612. https://doi.org/10.1177/0047287516662353

© 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.

Remittances and informal work (2016)
Journal Article
Ivlevs, A. (2016). Remittances and informal work. International Journal of Manpower, 37(7), 1172-1190. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJM-08-2015-0117

© 2016, © Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the effect of remittances on informal employment in the migrants’ countries of origin, looking both at the remittance-receiving and non-migrant households. D... Read More about Remittances and informal work.

Kosovo - Winning its Independence but Losing its People? Recent Evidence on Emigration Intentions and Preparedness to Migrate (2015)
Journal Article
Ivlevs, A., & King, R. (2015). Kosovo - Winning its Independence but Losing its People? Recent Evidence on Emigration Intentions and Preparedness to Migrate. International Migration, 53(5), 84-103. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2435.2011.00716.x

© 2015 International Organization for Migration. Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia in February 2008, but substantial proportions of its population are expressing their lack of confidence by preparing to emigrate. In this paper, we present... Read More about Kosovo - Winning its Independence but Losing its People? Recent Evidence on Emigration Intentions and Preparedness to Migrate.

Sample selection and bribing behaviour: Evidence from post-socialist countries and Western Europe (2015)
Journal Article
Ivlevs, A., & Hinks, T. (2015). Sample selection and bribing behaviour: Evidence from post-socialist countries and Western Europe. Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 235(2), 139-167

We study the individual-level determinants of bribing public officials. Particular attention is paid to the issue of respondents’ non-random selection into contact with public officials, which may result in biased estimates. Data come from the 2010 L... Read More about Sample selection and bribing behaviour: Evidence from post-socialist countries and Western Europe.

Happy Moves? Assessing the Link between Life Satisfaction and Emigration Intentions (2015)
Journal Article
Ivlevs, A. (2015). Happy Moves? Assessing the Link between Life Satisfaction and Emigration Intentions. Kyklos, 68(3), 335-356. https://doi.org/10.1111/kykl.12086

© 2015 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. It has been shown that higher levels of subjective well-being lead to greater work productivity, better physical health and enhanced social skills. Because of these positive externalities, policymakers across the world... Read More about Happy Moves? Assessing the Link between Life Satisfaction and Emigration Intentions.

Global economic crisis and corruption (2014)
Journal Article
Ivlevs, A., & Hinks, T. (2015). Global economic crisis and corruption. Public Choice, 162(3-4), 425-445. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-014-0213-z

© 2014, Springer Science+Business Media New York. We study the effects of the 2008–2009 global economic crisis on the household experience of bribing public officials. The data come from the Life in Transition-2 survey, conducted in 2010 in 30 post-s... Read More about Global economic crisis and corruption.

Understanding student attendance in business schools: An exploratory study (2014)
Journal Article
Mearman, A., Pacheco, G., Webber, D. J., Ivlevs, A., & Rahman, T. (2014). Understanding student attendance in business schools: An exploratory study. International Review of Economics Education, 17, 120-136. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iree.2014.10.002

© 2014 Elsevier Ltd. There is considerable literature indicating that class attendance is positively related to academic performance. However, the narrative on what influences students' decisions to attend class is scant. This article examines why st... Read More about Understanding student attendance in business schools: An exploratory study.

2004 Minority Education Reform and pupil performance in Latvia (2014)
Journal Article
Ivlevs, A., & King, R. M. (2014). 2004 Minority Education Reform and pupil performance in Latvia. Economics of Education Review, 38, 151-166. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2013.08.010

One quarter of all schoolchildren in Latvia go to the publicly funded minority (predominantly Russian) schools. In 2004, the language of instruction in minority schools was changed from essentially minority language to a composite of 60% Latvian and... Read More about 2004 Minority Education Reform and pupil performance in Latvia.

Economic insecurity in transition: A primary commodities perspective (2014)
Journal Article
Ivlevs, A. (2014). Economic insecurity in transition: A primary commodities perspective. Review of Income and Wealth, 60(S1), S117-S140. https://doi.org/10.1111/roiw.12038

This paper studies the individual and household-level determinants of economic insecurity in post-socialist countries. Exploring subjective, backward- and forward-looking measures of economic insecurity, the paper focuses on: (1) the perceptions of p... Read More about Economic insecurity in transition: A primary commodities perspective.

Together or apart? Attitudes towards multi-ethnic state and ethnically mixed communities in post-independence Kosovo (2013)
Book Chapter
Ivlevs, A., & King, R. M. (2013). Together or apart? Attitudes towards multi-ethnic state and ethnically mixed communities in post-independence Kosovo. In C. Ruggeri Laderchi, & S. Savastano (Eds.), Poverty and Exclusion in the Western Balkans: new directions in measurement and policy (203-220). Springer

A growing body of literature has explored the impact of ethnic fractionalisation on long-term development outcomes. This chapter explores the way ethnic identities relate to the dynamics of exclusion by focusing on attitudes towards a multi-ethnic st... Read More about Together or apart? Attitudes towards multi-ethnic state and ethnically mixed communities in post-independence Kosovo.

Minorities on the move? Assessing post-enlargement emigration intentions of Latvia's Russian speaking minority (2013)
Journal Article
Ivlevs, A. (2013). Minorities on the move? Assessing post-enlargement emigration intentions of Latvia's Russian speaking minority. Annals of Regional Science, 51(1), 33-52. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00168-012-0534-0

Are ethnic minorities more likely to emigrate from the new EU Member States? Who are the potential minority and majority migrants? This paper studies emigration intentions of the Russian speaking minority in Latvia after the 2004 EU enlargement. Usin... Read More about Minorities on the move? Assessing post-enlargement emigration intentions of Latvia's Russian speaking minority.

From immigrants to (non-)citizens: political economy of naturalisations in Latvia (2012)
Journal Article
Ivļevs, A., Ivlevs, A., & King, R. M. (2012). From immigrants to (non-)citizens: political economy of naturalisations in Latvia. IZA Journal of Migration, 1(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/2193-9039-1-14

© 2012, Ivļevs and King; licensee Springer. We study the determinants of the willingness to acquire citizenship of Latvia by ‘non-citizens’ – the former Soviet migrants and their descendants born on the territory of Latvia. The country of Latvia serv... Read More about From immigrants to (non-)citizens: political economy of naturalisations in Latvia.

Does More Schooling Make You Run for the Border? Evidence from Post-Independence Kosovo (2012)
Journal Article
Ivļevs, A., Ivlevs, A., & King, R. M. (2012). Does More Schooling Make You Run for the Border? Evidence from Post-Independence Kosovo. Journal of Development Studies, 48(8), 1108-1120. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2012.658377

Does an extra year of schooling augment one's propensity to migrate? In a naive regression, which does not account for the potential reverse causality and omitted variables, the coefficient of education is likely to be biased. To deal with the proble... Read More about Does More Schooling Make You Run for the Border? Evidence from Post-Independence Kosovo.

Ageing, Local Birth Rates and Attitudes towards Immigration:Evidence from a Transition Economy (2012)
Journal Article
Ivlevs, A. (2012). Ageing, Local Birth Rates and Attitudes towards Immigration:Evidence from a Transition Economy. Regional Studies, 46(7), 947-959. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2010.546779

Ivļevs A. Ageing, local birth rates and attitudes towards immigration:evidence from a transition economy, Regional Studies. This paper studies the links between local birth rates and individual attitudes towards immigration, focusing on Latvia - a co... Read More about Ageing, Local Birth Rates and Attitudes towards Immigration:Evidence from a Transition Economy.

Family migration capital and migration intentions (2012)
Journal Article
Ivlevs, A., & King, R. M. (2012). Family migration capital and migration intentions. Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 33(1), 118-129. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10834-011-9269-9

Does a history of migration in the family influence one's decision to move abroad? This paper argues that intergenerational transmission of 'migration capital' accumulated in the family is a significant determinant of current decisions to migrate. Us... Read More about Family migration capital and migration intentions.

The impact of global economic crisis on remittances in the commonwealth of independent states (2009)
Journal Article
O'Hara, S., Ivlevs, A., & Gentile, M. (2009). The impact of global economic crisis on remittances in the commonwealth of independent states. Eurasian Geography and Economics, 50(4), 447-463. https://doi.org/10.2747/1539-7216.50.4.447

Two European geographers and an economist analyze the impact of the 2008-2009 global economic recession on remittances in the Commonwealth of Independent States. Drawing on balance-of-payments data as well as information on money transfers to and fro... Read More about The impact of global economic crisis on remittances in the commonwealth of independent states.

The effects of the economic downturn on migration from the New EU Member States to the United Kingdom (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Ivlevs, A., Piacentini, M., & Upward, R. (2009, September). The effects of the economic downturn on migration from the New EU Member States to the United Kingdom. Paper presented at COMPAS Annual Conference 2009: New Times? Economic Crisis, Geo-Political Transformation and the Emergent Migration Order, Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, University of Oxford, UK

The paper studies how the current economic and financial crisis affected migration flows from the new EU Member States (NMS) to the United Kingdom (UK). Using Worker Registration Scheme data, we find a strong correlation between the change in economi... Read More about The effects of the economic downturn on migration from the New EU Member States to the United Kingdom.

Labour mobility within the EU in the context of enlargement and the functioning of the transitional arrangements. Case study: Denmark (2009)
Report
Case study: Denmark

Denmark applied gentle transition rules on migration from the NMS in May 2004 and further eased the access to its labour market in 2006 and 2007. We summarise the available evidence on the extent, composition and effects of migration from the NMS to... Read More about Labour mobility within the EU in the context of enlargement and the functioning of the transitional arrangements. Case study: Denmark.