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Direct linkPacheco, Gail Anne; Rossouw, Stephanie; Lewer, Joshua – Social Indicators Research, 2013
This paper contributes to the immigration literature by generating two unique non-economic quality of life (QOL) indices and testing their role on recent migration patterns. Applying the generated QOL indices in conjunction with four independent welfare measures to an augmented gravity model of immigration, this paper finds an insignificant…
Descriptors: Quality of Life, Foreign Countries, Immigration, Migration Patterns
Benish-Weisman, Maya; Shye, Samuel – Social Indicators Research, 2011
Two different perspectives on immigration outcomes are employed and interrelated: Overall assessments of the success in immigration and systemic quality of life assessments (using SQOL model, Shye in Soc Indic Res, 21:243-378, 1989). Data were collected from a sample of 337 immigrants to Israel from the former USSR. Results reveal that quality of…
Descriptors: Quality of Life, Foreign Countries, Immigration, Immigrants
Wong, Winky K. F.; Chou, Kee-Lee; Chow, Nelson W. S. – Social Indicators Research, 2012
The concept of Quality of life (QOL) has received considerable attention from different disciplines. The aim of this study was to identify what are the correlates of QOL among Chinese new immigrants in Hong Kong. Data were collected through a cross-sectional survey among 449 Hong Kong new immigrants from Mainland China. Bivariate and multiple…
Descriptors: Quality of Life, Questionnaires, Foreign Countries, Economic Factors
Chow, Henry P. H. – Social Indicators Research, 2012
This study explored the health care service needs and the major correlates of quality of life among 127 community-dwelling elderly Chinese immigrants in a western Canadian city. Participants were interviewed in their homes by trained, bilingual interviewers employing a structured questionnaire that covered a wide range of topics including health…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Networks, Immigrants, Life Satisfaction
Bask, Miia – Social Indicators Research, 2011
In this paper, we perform a latent class factor analysis of a panel that involves two waves of data from an annual survey of living conditions in Sweden that were gathered in the years 1994-1995 and 2002-2003. We follow the same 3,149 individuals over both waves, describing them by sex, age group, family type, nationality background, education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Factor Analysis, Longitudinal Studies, Violence
Spellerberg, Annette; Huschka, Denis; Habich, Roland – Social Indicators Research, 2007
In Germany, processes can be observed that have long been out of keeping with the principle of equality of opportunity. Unemployment is concentrated in the structurally weak peripheral areas, in Eastern Germany in particular; emigration of young and better-educated people to the West is not diminishing, but contrary to expectation is again on the…
Descriptors: Living Standards, Quality of Life, Birth Rate, Professional Training
