In this paper we explore the ways in which institutions and networks influence entrepreneurial development in Russia …. By utilizing new Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) data collected in 2001, we investigate the effects of the weak … addition, the analysis explores the effectiveness of Russia’s informal networks for circumventing the weak institutional …

migrants form social links among them and the extent to which this network provides them with material support along three …

on migration decisions, we rely on the concepts of migration networks and herd effects. … “other people”, such as family and friends, are migrants, former migrants, or potential migrants themselves. We examine the … roles “other people” play in influencing an individual’s potential migration decision. In analyzing the influence of others …

The scale of international migration flows depends on moving costs that are, in turn, influenced by host …-country policies and by the size of migrant networks at destination. This paper estimates the influence of visa policies and networks … upon bilateral migration flows to multiple destinations. We rely on a Poisson pseudo-maximum likelihood estimator to derive …

characteristics of workers, changes in the institutions of the labour market, in skill-biased technological progress and increasing …

Migration is an important and yet neglected determinant of institutions. The paper documents the channels through which … emigration affects home country institutions and considers dynamic-panel regressions for a large sample of developing countries …

There is a well-known debate about the roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long-term development … institutions and found that this supported their line of reasoning. We believe there is value-added to consider this debate at the … mechanisms from geography via institutions to economic development outcomes. In particular, we examine the determinants of …

institutions and early development. Our instrumental-variables estimates provide evidence of a robust, positive effect of openness … income. We also show that the effect of migration operates through an increase in total factor productivity, which appears to …

This paper tests the hypothesis that international migration experiences may promote better institutions at home by … political accountability. We find that this effect can be mainly attributed to the presence of return migrants, particularly to …

There is considerable debate regarding the relative contribution of international migrants’ remittances to sustainable … institutions. …