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IMMIGRANTS IN SPAIN: SKILLS ACQUISITION AND DEVELOPMENT. A REGIONAL STUDY.

Díaz-Emparanza, Ignacio; Espinosa, Alexandra M. - EconWPA - 2001

The consequences of international migration for development in countries of origin and destination remain hotly debated … (attending a school), if the immigration police only authorizes very short migration. …

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A double gender-family inequality phenomenon in the international mobility of young researchers

Moguérou, Philippe - EconWPA - 2004

In this paper, we raise the question of gender differences in the geographic mobility of young researchers. We try to answer to three main questions regarding the international mobility of young researchers during the post-doc period: Are there differences among genders? Does “family” have...

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Moving to Jobs?

Maré, Dave; Timmins, Jason - EconWPA - 2003

and migration flows to gauge the strength of the relationship and the stability of the relationship over the business … strongly related to that region's fortunes. We also find that migration flows to the metropolitan regions of Auckland …

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Migration, Labor Market Flexibility, and Wage Determination in China: A Review

Zhao, Zhong - EconWPA - 2005

This paper reviews economic studies on rural-urban migration issues in China. The paper focuses on four issues: the … household registration system in China, the proﬁle of the migrants, explanations for rural-to-urban migration, and the … interaction between migration and labor market evolution, with special reference to labor market segregation, labor market …

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Macroeconomic Determinants of Workers’ Remittances: Host vs. Home Country’s Economic Conditions

Vargas-Silva, Carlos; Huang, Peng - EconWPA - 2005

This study examines the determinants of worker’s remittances. Variance decompositions, impulse response functions and Granger causality tests derived from a vector error correction model are used to test if remittances are affected by the macroeconomic conditions of the host (remittance...

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Growth and Convergence across the U.S: Evidence from County-Level Data

Higgins, Matthew; Levy, Daniel; Young, Andrew - EconWPA - 2005

We use U.S. county data (3,058 observations) and 41 conditioning variables to study growth and convergence. Using OLS and 3SLS-IV we report on the full sample and metro, non-metro, and 5 regional samples: (1) OLS yields convergence rates around 2 percent; 3SLS yields 6–8 percent; (2)...

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Does Social Capital Improve Labour Productivity in Small and Medium Enterprises?

Sabatini, Fabio - EconWPA - 2005

This paper carries out an empirical assessment of the relationship between social capital and labour productivity in small and medium enterprises in Italy. By means of structural equations models, the analysis investigates the effect of different aspects of the multifaceted concept of social...

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THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST

Feige, Edgar L. - EconWPA - 2005

Reference: Challenge, January/February, 1979

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Many Types of Human Capital and Many Roles in U.S. Growth: Evidence from County-Level Educational Attainment Data

Young, Andrew; Levy, Daniel; Higgins, Matthew - EconWPA - 2004

We utilize county-level data to explore the roles of different types of human capital accumulation in U.S. growth determination. The data includes over 3,000 cross-sectional observations and 39 demographic control variables. The large number of observations provides enough degrees of freedom to...

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Does Social Capital Improve Labour Productivity in Small and Medium Enterprises?

Sabatini, Fabio - EconWPA - 2005

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134471

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