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Immigration and Innovation in European Regions

Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

of McDonald's restaurants as a novel instrument for immigration. The results confirm that innovation is clearly a … this paper we measure the impact of the size, skills, and diversity of immigration on the innovativeness of host regions …-2005. Innovation outcomes are measured by means of the number of patent applications per million inhabitants. Given the geographical …

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The Rationality behind Immigration Preferences

Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Henkens, Kène - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

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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A Meta-Analytic Assessment of the Effect of Immigration on Wages

Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

-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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The Fallacy of “Job Robbing”: A Meta-Analysis of Estimates of the Effect of Immigration on Employment

Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006

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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The Economic Impact of Immigration on the Labor Market of Host Countries - Meta-Analytic Evidence

Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

The number of immigrants across the world has doubled since 1980. The estimates of the impact of immigration on wages …

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A Field Experiment in Motivating Employee Ideas

Neckermann, Susanne; Gibbs, Michael; Siemroth, Christoph - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

crowding out. Our findings suggest that rewards can improve innovation and creativity, and that there may be a tradeoff between …

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Collusion through Joint R&D: An Empirical Assessment

Duso, Tomaso; Roeller, Lars-Hendrik; Seldeslachts, Jo - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010

This paper tests whether upstream R&D cooperation leads to downstream collusion. We consider an oligopolistic setting where firms enter in research joint ventures (RJVs) to lower production costs or coordinate on collusion in the product market. We show that a sufficient condition for...

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Happiness and Financial Satisfaction in Israel. Effects of Religiosity , Ethnicity, and War

Praag, Bernard M.S. van; Romanov, Dmitri; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010

This discussion paper led to a publication in <A href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167487010000954">'Journal of Economic Psychology'</A>, 31(6), 1008-20.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...</a>

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Migration and Foreign Direct Investment: Education Matters

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

much research on the socio-economic determinants and impacts of immigration. This paper investigates the relationship …

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Employment Assimilation of Immigrants in the Netherlands

Zorlu, Aslan; Hartog, Joop - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

Forthcoming in the International Journal of Population Research, Vol. 2012. 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....

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