Germans try to ease overcrowding

VolkaufdemWeg:Transnational Migrationof theRussian-Germans from1763 to thePresentDay

This article traces the migration patterns of the Russian-Germans across international borders from their initial settlement in the Russian Empire starting in 1763 up to the present day. In particular it analyses the reasons behind these migration flows. Both push and pull factors motivated the immigration of ethnic Germans to the Russian Empire in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. ...

Introduction to EASE 17

This volume is a collection of papers that were presented at the 17 annual East Asian Seminar in Economics (EASE) that was held at the Kohala Coast, Hawaii, June 22-24, 2006; the NBER was the local organizer. We thank all our sponsors – the NBER, All Nippon Airways, the University of Tokyo’s Center for Advanced Research in Finance, and especially the Center for Global Partnership – for making E...

.1 First Try 1.2 Second Try

Suppose we are given a graph G = (V,E). We would like to solve some cut problem (i.e. min-cut, s-t min cut, sparsest cut) and so on. The running time of algorithms for these problems typically depends on the number of edges in the graph, which might be as high as O(n). Is there any way to approximate our graph with a sparse graph G′ in which all cuts are approximately of the same size? We will ...

Desmond Mervyn Germans

Why Swiss-Germans dislike Germans On negative attitudes towards a culturally and socially similar group

This paper proposes to question two common assumptions and consistent empirical findings in the literature on xenophobia, namely that xenophobic attitudes can mainly be found among badly educated people of the host society and mostly concern immigrants from low social classes and from geographically and culturally far countries. These arguments will be discussed in the context of German migrati...