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In this paper, using the framework of a Roy theoretical model, we examine the performance of return migrants in Albania. We ask two main questions: (i) Had they chosen not to migrate, what would be the performance of return migrants compared to the non-migrants? and (ii) What would be the...
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There is widespread concern currently that some ethnic minority communities within Britain, especially Muslim, are not following the stereotypical immigrant path of economic and cultural assimilation into British society. Indeed, many seem to have the impression that differences between Muslims...
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Mexican migration to the United States has been a very important issue throughout the twentieth century, and its … migration to the United States has on labour market outcomes of Mexican workers. It uses data from the Mexican National Survey ….S. labour market than in the Mexican one during the period of migration. They also tend to work longer hours and face a …
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Ethnic inventors play important roles in US innovation systems, especially in high-tech regions like Silicon Valley. Do ‘ethnicity-innovation’ channels exist elsewhere? This paper investigates, using a new panel of UK patents microdata. In theory, ethnicity might affect positively innovation...
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This brief essay provides a selective discussion of how in recent years economists in the neoclassical tradition have addressed the questions whether and how immigration affects native workers’ labour market outcomes. In particular, it discusses: the distinction between the displacement,...
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The ¿beneficial brain drain¿ hypothesis suggests that skilled migration can be good for a sending country because the … degree of screening of migrants by the host country is limited and that the possibility of migration actually encourages home … country residents to obtain education. We studied the implications of doctors¿ migration by conducting a survey among overseas …
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Despite extensive recent advances in the empirical and theoretical study of migration, certain critical areas in the … analysis of European migration remain relatively underdeveloped both theoretically and empirically. Specifically, we lack … multiple generations and incorporating family migration trajectories. This paper outlines the development, data and design of …
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London is one of the world’s major cities, and one of its most diverse. London’s cultural diversity is widely seen as a social asset, but there is little hard evidence on its importance for the city’s businesses. Theory and evidence suggest various links between urban cultural diversity...
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This paper examines the relation between ambition, as a form of dynamic human capital, and the escalator role of high order metropolitan regions, as originally identified by Fielding (1989). It argues that occupational progression in such places particularly depends on concentrations both of...
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This paper examines the relation between ambition, as a form of dynamic human capital, and the escalator role of high-order metropolitan regions, as originally identified by A. J. Fielding. It argues that occupational progression in such places particularly depends on concentrations both of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011125904