Populist parties' propaganda portrays immigrants as a threat to native workers' jobs. When materializes an electoral success, it may drive changes in natives' attitudes towards immigrants. As shown experimentally by Bursztyn et al. (2020), results signal change social preferences about immigration and make individuals more likely express anti-immigrant resentment that they were previously hidin...

Job strain has become a major concern because of its potential impacts on worker well-being and performance. This cross-sectional study aimed to assess the prevalence of, and examine factors associated with, job strain among workers in a rubber-glove factory, in a central province of Thailand. A total of 200 workers aged 18–55 yr, who had worked at the factory for at least 6 months, completed t...

Thailand has a universal multi-payer system with two main types of health insurance: National Health Security Office or public health insurance and private insurance. National health insurance is designed for people who are not eligible to be members of any employment-based health insurance program. Although private health insurance is also available, all Thai citizens are required to be enroll...

■ Abstract This review examines research on the assimilation of immigrant groups. We review research on four primary benchmarks of assimilation: socioeconomic status, spatial concentration, language assimilation, and intermarriage. The existing literature shows that today’s immigrants are largely assimilating into American society along each of these dimensions. This review also considers direc...

We propose a multi-phase approach, Thai-Thai Sign Machine Translation (TTSMT), to translate Thai text into Thai Sign language. Thai Sign language is the language of the deaf in Thailand. TTSMT begins the translation process by segmenting the input sentence since Thai is a non-word boundary language, converting the segmented sentence into simple sentence forms since most Thai Sign are expressed ...

OBJECTIVE To compare problem behaviour in Turkish immigrant children living in the Netherlands versus problem behaviour in Dutch children from the general population as reported by teachers. METHOD Teacher's Report Forms (TRF) were filled out by Dutch teachers, and for a subsample also by Turkish immigrant teachers, concerning 524 Turkish immigrant children selected randomly from the immigran...

OBJECTIVES To develop and test the reliability of a Thai version of the King's Health Questionnaire (KHQ). MATERIAL AND METHOD Three Thai Urologists forward translated the original English KHQ into a Thai version. Back translations were performed by an independent group of physicians. A consensus was reached on a final Thai version after comparing the original KHQ and various translations. Fi...

We integrate insights from the social embeddedness perspective with research on immigrant entrepreneurship to theorize on how family resources influence exit from entrepreneurship among previously unemployed immigrant entrepreneurs. Results from a cohort study of immigrant entrepreneurs in Sweden reveal that family resources are important for immigrants to integrate economically into a country....

Mobile Instant Messaging (MIM) allows users to exchange multimedia information, such as texts, images, and videos with family and friends. MIM applications are typically free-ofcharge and intended for casual, playful communications, allowing users to engage in one-onone or group interactions. Based on Wegner's Transactive Memory Systems (TMS), the study focuses on how MIM can be used to enhance...