Browsing Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS) by Subject "France"

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Browsing Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS) by Subject "France"

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    Title: Voluntary Return Programs: Can they Assuage the Effects of the Economic Crisis?  Author(s): PLEWA, Piotr Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: COMPAS Working Paper Abstract: In November 2008 the Spanish government authorized a voluntary return program for foreign workers in order to decrease unemployment pressures in the wake of 2008/09 financial crisis. Voluntary return programs are not ...
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    Title: From Millet to Nation: The Limits of Consociational Resolutions for Middle East Conflict  Author(s): SHIELDS, Sarah Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS Abstract: This paper argues that Europeans worked to transform the bases for group affiliation in territories of the former Ottoman Empire, insisting on national and linguistic self-identification that created dissonance among the ...
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    Title: The Politics of Seasonal Foreign Worker Admissions to France, 1974-2010  Author(s): PLEWA, Piotr Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS Abstract: In response to the economic crisis of 1973/74 the French government curbed the admissions of seasonal foreign workers. By 2010 the curbs have remained in effect, however, the number of foreign workers authorized to work ...
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    Title: The Intergenerational Transmission of Income and Education: A Comparison of Japan and France  Author(s): LEFRANC, Arnaud; OJIMA, Fumiaki; YOSHIDA, Takashi Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS Abstract: The paper compares the extent of intergenerational earnings and educational correlation in Japan and France. It uses very similar repeated surveys that provide information on educational attainment and family background, ...
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    Title: Public Spending Interactions and Local Politics. Empirical Evidence From French Municipalities  Author(s): FOUCAULT, Martial; MADIES, Thierry; PATY, Sonia Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: This paper aims at testing whether there exist spending interactions between French municipalities by estimating a dynamic panel data model. Our results suggest that there are some interactions between neighbouring ...
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    Title: Divided in Diversity: National Legal Scholarship(s) and the European Convention of Human Rights  Author(s): HENNETTE-VAUCHEZ, Stéphanie Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS Abstract: The present article looks at the history and features of legal academic discourse on the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR). It first establishes that people from inside the Convention system have been the first ...
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    Title: Made in France? Chinese Student Return Migration from French Business Schools  Author(s): SHEN, Wei Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Technical Report Series/Report no.: MIREM-AR Abstract: Chinese migration to France is not a new phenomenon; however, France has seen rapid growth of migration from China in the past decade. Among the increasingly diverse migratory flow, a prominent group is Chinese students. ...
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    Title: Sharecropping in history  Author(s): SCHOFIELD, Phillipp; CâMARA, Benedita; CâMARA, Benedita; CARMONA, Juan; FEDERICO, Giovanni; SANTOS, Rui Date: 2006 Type of Publication: Article