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Survey on Rules on Loss of Nationality in International Treaties and Case Law. CEPS Paper in Liberty and Security in Europe No. 57, 30 August 2013
This paper offers a picture of the obligations existing under international and European law in respect of the loss of nationality. It describes international instruments including obligations in this field with direct relevancy for the loss of nationality of Member States of the European Union, but also obligations regarding loss of nationality in regional non-European treaties. Attention is given to two important judicial decisions of the European Court of Justice (Janko Rottmann) and the European Court of Human Rights (Genovese v Malta) regarding nationality. Special attention is devoted to Article 15 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which forbids the arbitrary deprivation of nationality. A survey is provided of possible sub-principles that can be derived from this rule. Finally, some observations are made on the burden of proof in cases of loss of nationality
Dulong texts : seven fully analyzed narrative and procedural texts
Dulong is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Gongshan Dulong and Nu Autonomous county in Yunnan, China, by members of the Dulong nationality (pop.: 6,000), and part of the Nu nationality (roughly 6,000 people)
THE EFFECT OF BOARD DIVERSITY ON INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL PERFORMANCE: THE MODERATING ROLE OF BOARD MEETINGS’ EFFECTIVENESS
This study aims to investigate the effect of board diversity (gender,
educational level, nationality, and the presence of independent board) partially to
the intellectual capital performance with the moderating effect of the effectiveness
of board meetings. This research adopted Pulic (1998) model to measure the
intellectual capital performance. Board Diversity was measured by Blau’s Index,
while the effectiveness of board meetings was measured by the number of joint
meetings that have been held by the board of directors and board of
commissioners per year.
Population of this research were banks, insurance, telecommunication and
computer companies which have met some criteria as knowledge-intensive
companies. Samples were taken for the year 2012-2015. Samples was collected by
purposive sampling method where researcher established some criteria to be the
research data. Moderated Regression Analysis (MRA) on IBM SPSS 20. was used
to test the research data.
This research indicated that companies with a high level of board diversity
in terms of gender, educational level, nationality, and the presence of an
independent board without effectiveness of board meetings have lower intellectual
capital performance except nationality diversity. Furthermore, this research found
that board diversity partially are gender, educational level, nationality, and the
presence of independent board with more effective board meetings have higher
intellectual capital performance except nationality diversity which have a negative
effect on intellectual capital performance
Nationality Classification Using Name Embeddings
Nationality identification unlocks important demographic information, with
many applications in biomedical and sociological research. Existing name-based
nationality classifiers use name substrings as features and are trained on
small, unrepresentative sets of labeled names, typically extracted from
Wikipedia. As a result, these methods achieve limited performance and cannot
support fine-grained classification.
We exploit the phenomena of homophily in communication patterns to learn name
embeddings, a new representation that encodes gender, ethnicity, and
nationality which is readily applicable to building classifiers and other
systems. Through our analysis of 57M contact lists from a major Internet
company, we are able to design a fine-grained nationality classifier covering
39 groups representing over 90% of the world population. In an evaluation
against other published systems over 13 common classes, our F1 score (0.795) is
substantial better than our closest competitor Ethnea (0.580). To the best of
our knowledge, this is the most accurate, fine-grained nationality classifier
available.
As a social media application, we apply our classifiers to the followers of
major Twitter celebrities over six different domains. We demonstrate stark
differences in the ethnicities of the followers of Trump and Obama, and in the
sports and entertainments favored by different groups. Finally, we identify an
anomalous political figure whose presumably inflated following appears largely
incapable of reading the language he posts in.Comment: 10 pages, 9 figures, 4 table, accepted by CIKM 2017, Demo and free
API: www.name-prism.co
An Experimental Study on the Relevance and Scope of Culture as a Focal Point
This paper uses an experimental approach to study whether nationality serves as a focal point. We let subjects from Japan, Korea, and China play stag-hunt coordination games in which we vary information about their partner. The results show that subjects are more likely to try to coordinate on the payoff-dominant equilibrium if the only piece of information they have about their partner is that they have the same nationality. However, if subjects receive additional information about their partner, subjects are not more likely to try to coordinate on the payoff dominant equilibrium. We also do not find that subjects are less likely to try to coordinate on the payoff-dominant equilibrium when their partner has a different nationality as compared to when the partner’s nationality is unknown. In addition, we observe that giving subjects information about their partner in general increases the risk of miscoordination. Thus, our findings suggest that nationality can serve as a coordination device but also that the scope of this device is limited.Coordination, Focal points, Cultural economics, Inter-cultural lab experiments, In-group behavior.
Effects of immigration on population growth and structures in Greece - A spatial approach
From the early 1990s, Greece has been experiencing a strong immigration flow consisting of various nationality groups with different demographic profiles and structures. The immigrant population is not uniformly distributed spatially and consists of various nationality groups with different demographic behaviours. Therefore, the examination of the implications of immigration on the population size and structure at a low geographical level, according to the nationality composition of the foreign population, is useful in finding population structures which are impossible to observe otherwise. This paper examines the impact of immigration on the population size, age and sex structure of the population in Greek municipalities. In order to do this, statistical clustering techniques have been utilised to define homogeneous groups of municipalities with respect to the nationality composition of their foreign population as well as the impact of immigration on their size and demographic characteristics.
4. Nationalism as an Idea
Nationalism may be described as a state of mind which gives priority to the idea of nationality. Nationality in turn refers to a group of people who pride themselves on their common descent, customs, or traditions. As a rule these people inhabit a well-defined geographic area and are united by a common language. Often they tend to exhibit a collective egoism, convinced that their particular culture and ethnic stock are superior to all others. Some notable exceptions to these generalizations exist, yet even these exceptions are also characterized by what has been called a living and active corporate will as an essential element. [excerpt
Wage discrimination and occupational segregation of foreign male workers in Germany
We analyze wage discrimination against foreign male workers in Germany with respect to different nationality groups and focused on its interaction with occupational segregation. We found evidence of strong occupational segregation, which we mainly attribute to institutional factors but also to different endowments with human capital. For the measurement of wage discrimination itself we applied a tobit estimation procedure to the wage equation and carried out the usual Blinder/Oaxaca decomposition in the second step. We found a slight discrimination against all foreign male workers together, but considerably greater discrimination for some nationality groups such as East Europeans and persons from the Middle and Far East. The additional consideration of occupational segregation did not affect these results much. However, by far most 'of the wage differentials between Germans and foreign nationality groups could be attributed to different endowments with human capital. --Discrimination,occupational segregation,foreigners
Characteristics of foreign-owned firms in British manufacturing
This paper describes the characteristics of manufacturing establishments in Britain overthe period 1980 to 1996. Particular attention is paid to differences between plants ofdifferent ownership nationality. The findings suggest that establishments that are alwaysforeign-owned have significantly higher labour productivity than those that remainunder domestic ownership. In addition, labour productivity improves faster over timeand faster with age in foreign-owned establishments. The difference in labourproductivity is matched by an equivalent difference in levels of investment peremployee. Establishments that change ownership nationality do not seem to experiencevery large changes in labour productivity levels. The proportion of skilled workers inthe workplace, and wages for both skilled and operative workers are higher in foreignownedestablishments than domestic-owned, in line with differences in labourproductivity
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