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Return Migration as a Channel of Brain Gain
Peri, Giovanni; Mayr, Karin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
Recent theoretical and empirical studies have emphasized the fact that the prospect of international migration … that temporary migration is widespread among highly skilled migrants (such as Eastern Europeans in Western Europe and … for return migration and which predicts who will migrate and who will return among agents with heterogeneous abilities. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005774710
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The Selection of Migrants and Returnees: Evidence from Romania and Implications
Peri, Giovanni; Ambrosini, J. William; Mayr, Karin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
-specific premium for migration and return for three typical destinations of Romanian migrants after 1990. We find evidence for a … sorting of migrants consistent with skill compensation in destination countries. The premium to return migration increases … with migrants' skills and drives the positive selection of returnees. Based on the rationality of these migration decisions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008927012
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Mobile Scientists and International Networks
Stephan, Paula E.; Scellato, Giuseppe; Franzoni, Chiara - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
evidence suggests that migration plays an important role in the formation of international networks. Approximately 40 percent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950868
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Immigration and the Economy of Cities and Regions
Lewis, Ethan G.; Peri, Giovanni - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
In this chapter we analyze immigration and its effect on urban and regional economies focusing on productivity and labor markets. While immigration policies are typically national, the effects of international migrants are often more easily identified on local economies. The reason is that their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951263
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Immigrants' and Native Workers: New Analysis on Longitudinal Data
Peri, Giovanni; Foged, Mette - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Using longitudinal data on the universe of workers in Denmark during the period 1991-2008 we track the labor market outcomes of low skilled natives in response to an exogenous inflow of low skilled immigrants. We innovate on previous identification strategies by considering immigrants...
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The Dynamics of Firm Lobbying
Kerr, William R.; Lincoln, William F.; Mishra, Prachi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
We study the determinants of the dynamics of firm lobbying behavior using a panel data set covering 1998-2006. Our data exhibit three striking facts: (i) few firms lobby, (ii) lobbying status is strongly associated with firm size, and (iii) lobbying status is highly persistent over time....
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A Spatial Knowledge Economy
Davis, Donald R.; Dingel, Jonathan I. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
emerges from symmetric fundamentals, and why skilled workers have higher migration rates than unskilled workers when both are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010553382
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Ethnic Innovation and U.S. Multinational Firm Activity
Foley, C. Fritz; Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
This paper studies the impact that immigrant innovators have on the global activities of U.S. firms by analyzing detailed data on patent applications and on the operations of the foreign affiliates of U.S. multinational firms. The results indicate that increases in the share of a firm's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009251495
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A Nation of Immigrants: Assimilation and Economic Outcomes in the Age of Mass Migration
Abramitzky, Ran; Boustan, Leah Platt; Eriksson, Katherine - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
During the Age of Mass Migration (1850-1913), the US maintained an open border, absorbing 30 million European …
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Immigrants Equilibrate Local Labor Markets: Evidence from the Great Recession
Cadena, Brian C.; Kovak, Brian K. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This paper demonstrates that low-skilled Mexican-born immigrants' location choices in the U.S. respond strongly to changes in local labor demand, and that this geographic elasticity helps equalize spatial differences in labor market outcomes for low-skilled native workers, who are much less...
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