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Regional Economic Impacts of Immigration: A Review

Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009

A burgeoning literature has emerged during the last two decades to assess the economic impacts of immigration on host countries. In recent years much research has been at the national level under the assumption that impacts in open regions may dissipate through adjustment processes such as...

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Remittances and their Effect on Emigration Intentions in Egypt, Morocco and Turkey

Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Groenewold, George; Fokkema, Tineke - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005

What determines remittances – altruism or enlightened self-interest - and do remittances trigger additional migration …, receipt of remittances may contribute to new flows of migration, in particular in the case of Morocco. …

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Migrants and International Economic Linkages: A Meta-Overview

Gheasi, Masood; Nijkamp, Peter; Rietveld, Piet - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

prompted much research on the socio-economic impacts of immigration. The migration issue has become one of the most debated … international migration on international trade, foreign direct investment, and tourism. These studies have largely adopted the same … migration and foreign direct investment. Our primary results confirm that immigration has a positive impact on FDI investment in …

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The Economics of Co-ethnic Employment; Incentives, Welfare Effects and Policy Options

Butter, Frank A.G. den; Masurel, Enno; Mosch, Robert - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

This discussion paper resulted in a chapter in (L.P. Dana (Ed.)) Handbook of Research on Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship, pp. 42-60, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007. Co-ethnic employment refers to the stylised fact of many labour markets that there is an over-representation of workers of the same...

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The Last Word on the Wage Curve?

Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002

In the last decade we have seen extensive international research on the extent to which wages of individuals respond to changing local labour market conditions. For many countries and periods, an inverse relationship between wages and unemployment rates has been found. Following Blanchflower and...

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