Editorial No. 57

Working Paper No. 57

IZA Discussion Paper No. 57

Is Child like Parent? Educational Attainment and Ethnic Origin The speed at which immigrants assimilate is the subject of debate. Human capital formation plays a major role in this discussion. This paper compares the educational attainment of second generation immigrants to those of natives in the same age cohort. Evidence using a large German data set suggests ethnicity does matter: the size o...

Editorial: Why No Borders?

This editorial article argues for No Borders as a practical political project . We first critically examine borders as ideological, generating and reinforcing inequality . We consider some responses to injustices produced by borders: the call for “human rights”; attempts to make immigration controls more “humanitarian”; and trade unions’ organizing and campaigning with undocumented workers . Re...

Discussion Paper No . 2001 / 57 Debt Relief and Civil War

Of the 41 HIPCs, 11 are classified by the IMF and World Bank as conflict-affected. Can debt relief reduce the level of violent conflict in these countries? By providing additional resources to finance broad-based public spending, debt relief could help to redress the grievances that contribute to conflict. It could also reduce the ability of those motivated by greed to recruit followers, since ...

Editorial: OJPHI Vol 4, No 3 (2012)

Welcome to the last issue of the 4th volume of the Online Journal of Public Health Informatics. I am sure you are all aware that the National Library of Medicine has approved our application for indexing and archiving in PubMed Central. The next step is to deliver all past issues of the journal to NLM in the required XML DTD format. The NLM will provide links to other related biomedical informa...