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The Return Motivations of Legal Permanent Migrants: Evidence from Exchange Rate Shocks and Immigrants in Australia
Abarcar, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Why do legal permanent migrants return to their home countries? How do home country conditions influence this decision … depreciation in the home country currency) leads to a reduced likelihood of return of 0.37 percentage points for migrants. The … reject the theory that migrants are target earners who seek to invest upon return home. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011250907
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Migration et pauvreté en Haïti : impacts économiques et sociaux des envois de fonds sur l’inégalité et la pauvreté ?
Paul, Bénédique - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
There are few studies of the social and economic consequences of remittances from migrant workers on poverty and inequality in their home country until recently, especially in Haiti. The known amount of remittances sent to Haiti by the Haitian diaspora has surpassed one billion U.S. dollars in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107325
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Drivers of change or cut-throat competitors? Challenging Cultures of Innovation of Chinese and Nigerian migrant entrepreneurs in West Africa
Kohnert, Dirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
of any trading Diaspora, is open to question. This exploratory study of Chinese and Nigerian entrepreneurial migrants in … Chinese versus African innovative cultures of entrepreneurial migrants. Rather there exists an enhanced innovative capacity of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008568371
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Determinants of internal migration in Kazakhstan
Aldashev, Alisher; Dietz, Barbara - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
In this paper we analyze the determinants of interregional migration in Kazakhstan using quarterly panel data on region to region migration in 2008–2010. To the best of our knowledge this is the first study on interregional population flows in Central Asia. We find that migration is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009372497
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Armenia: What drives first movers and how can their efforts be scaled up?
Minoian, Victoria; Freinkman, Lev - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
The paper examines ways to expand the contribution of the Armenian diaspora to Armenia’s long-term development agenda. It identifies factors that could explain the involvement and dynamics of a small group of entrepreneurs from the diaspora who have been active in and with Armenia. Based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790081
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Can Lipset’s theory travel through time and space? the destination Nicaragua, 1972-1998. A time series test of the social requisites of democracy.
Michalak, Katja - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The epigraph is emblematic of an orthodox theoretical view that ‘only in a wealthy society could a situation exist in which the mass of the population could intelligently participate in politics’ and that this relationship is universal and applicable cross time and space. Comparing ancient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009148013
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Toward a harmonious countryside: rural development survey results of the People’s Republic of China
Lin, Tun - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The construction of a New Socialist Countryside (NSC) is among the highlights in the People's Republic of China’s (PRC …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008642686
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Enhancing technological progress in a market-socialist context:China's national innovation system at the crossroads
Gabriele, Alberto; Khan, Ali Haider - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper analyzes the available evidence of China's S&T, R&D, and innovative capabilities, to provide an assessment … policy suggestions aimed at improving China's overall innovation strategy. Our approach focuses particularly on the evolving … relationship between China's NSI and the country's overall market socialist social and economic system - both of which are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789290
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Migration, Learning, and Development
Zakharenko, Roman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
institutions foster return migration of emigrants who have acquired more knowledge while abroad. These return migrants greatly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836049
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Europe, Space of Freedom and Security. Migration and mobility: Assets and challenges for the enlargement of the European Union
Silasi, Grigore; Simina, Ovidiu Laurian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
The ‘Jean Monnet’ European Centre of Excellence (C03/0110) and the School of High Comparative European Studies (SISEC), both from the West University of Timisoara, propose to launch the scientific debate on the migration and mobility within the Romanian universities, the academic life and...
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