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systematically assess the conditions for successful entrepreneurship of migrants. …Nowadays, migrants form a significant share of the urban population, and their business is critical for urban economic … competitive urban environment, this study will investigate the entrepreneurial behaviour of migrants in Dutch cities from a micro …
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In this paper, we employ search theory as a micro-economic foundation for the wasteful commuting hypothesis. It is argued that the commute of the self-employed is the result of a search process for vacant workplaces, whereas employees search for vacant jobs through space. Because the arrival...
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creation of new ideas, knowledge spillovers, entrepreneurship, and economic growth. In this paper we measure the impact of the … size, skills, and diversity of immigration on the innovativeness of host regions. For this purpose we construct a panel of …'s restaurants as a novel instrument for immigration. The results confirm that innovation is clearly a function of regio nal …
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much research on the socio-economic determinants and impacts of immigration. This paper investigates the relationship … we then include the education level of migrants living in the UK, our results indicate that the more educ ated migrants …
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We analyze individual satisfaction with life as a whole and satisfaction with the personal financial situation for Israeli citizens of Jewish and Arab descent. Our data set is the Israeli Social Survey (2006). We are especially interested in the impact of the religions Judaism, Islam and...
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of immigration? Does social interaction affect this preference or is the immigration preference completely in line with … immigration than the highly educated. Experience with foreigners arising from social contact matters in positively appreciating … significant effect on the evaluation of the number of foreigners present. The biggest effect on immigration preferences is …
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-economic phenomenon for many countries. Since the early 1980s, many studies have been undertaken of the impact of immigration on host … labour markets. Borjas (2003) noted that the estimated effect of immigration on the wage of native workers varies widely from … immigration on wages of native groups with similar skills appears rather robust. …
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Using two Dutch labour force surveys, employment assimilation of immigrants is examined. We observe marked differences between immigrants by source country. Non-western immigrants never reach parity with native Dutch. Even second generation immigrants never fully catch up. Caribbean immigrants,...
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Immigration is a phenomenon of growing significance in many countries. Increasing social tensions are leading to … countries has been exceeded and social cohesion threatened. There is also in public discourse a common perception of immigration … immigration on labour market outcomes. Applying meta-analytic techniques to 165 estimates from 9 recent studies for various OECD …
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This provides a short overview of the main themes of ecological economics (EE). It is
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