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Co-ethnic employment refers to the stylised fact of many labour markets that there is an over-representation of workers … constitute the major reasons for co-ethnic employment by lowering information and co-ordination costs. In the short run, co …-ethnic employment leads to more jobs for employees, easy access to labour for ethnic minority firms, strengthening of the group values …
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resulting in economic costs, particularly with respect to wages and employment opportunities of the native born. This warrants a …’ of the decline in native-born employment following a 1 percent increase in the number of immigrants is a mere 0 ….024 percent. However, the impact is somewhat larger on female than on male employment. The negative employment effect is also …
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What drives stated preferences about the number of foreigners? Is it self-interest as stressed by the political economy of immigration? Does social interaction affect this preference or is the immigration preference completely in line with the preference for the aggregate population size? In...
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In our increasingly interconnected and open world, international migration is becoming an important socio-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...
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Why do people leave high-income countries with extensive welfare states? This article will examine what underlies the emigration intentions of native-born inhabitants of one industrialized country in particular: the Netherlands. To understand emigration from high-income countries we focus not...
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employment effects. The number of studies that informs on both effects is rather limited, but eight econometric analyses yielded … 130 useful meta-observations. We find that wage rigidity increases the magnitude of the employment impact on the native … born, particularly of those who are low skilled, following positive net immigration. The employment elasticity is also …
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answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation … very important—but specific—function in the economy. They engender relatively much employment creation, productivity growth … studies show that entrepreneurial firms produce important spillovers that affect regional employment growth rates of all …
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In this paper we test the celebrated `Strength of weak ties' theory of Granovetter (1973). We test two hypotheses on the network structure in a data set of collaborating economists. While we find support for the hypothesis of transitivity of strong ties, we reject the hypothesis that weak ties...
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The main contribution of entrepreneurship theory to economics is to provide an account of market performance in disequilibrium but little empirical research has examined firm entry and exit in this context. We redress this by modelling the interrelationship between firm entry and exit in...
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during the first trimester of gestation on employment outcomes 53 or more years after birth, as well as effects on …
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