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Do Ethnic Enclaves Impede Immigrants' Integration? Evidence from a Quasi-Experimental Social-Interaction Approach
Danzer, Alexander M. - 2012
It is widely debated whether immigrants who live among co-ethnics are less willing to integrate into the host society. Exploiting the quasi-experimental guest worker placement across German regions during the 1960/70s as well as information on immigrants' inter-ethnic contact networks and social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096577
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Managing Migration Through Conflicting Policies : An Option-Theory Perspective
Moretto, Michele - 2009
Recent European legislation on immigration has revealed a particular paradox on migration policies. On the one hand … relax limits for immigrants in order to control migration inflows better. To this end, we use a real option approach to … migration choice that assumes that the decision to migrate can be described as an irreversible investment decision. In our model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157501
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The Effect of Language Training on Immigrants' Economic Integration - Empirical Evidence from France
Lochmann, Alexia - 2017
increases labor force participation of the treated individuals. The language classes appear to have a larger effect for labor … higher levels of education. Our estimates suggest that the main channel for the improved labor market participation is the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012955189
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Immigrant Entrepreneurship
Kerr, Sari Pekkala - 2019
We examine immigrant entrepreneurship and the survival and growth of immigrant-founded businesses over time relative to native-founded companies. Our work quantifies immigrant contributions to new firm creation in a wide variety of fields and using multiple definitions. While significant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012902521
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The Healthy Immigrant Paradox and Health Convergence
Constant, Amelie F. - 2017
the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper we are concerned with international migration and health outcomes in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012943173
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On the Economics and Politics of Refugee Migration
Dustmann, Christian - 2016
This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of refugee migration, with emphasis on the current refugee crisis. After …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012979577
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Immigration and Entrepreneurship
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015
Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This is reflected in immigration policies and many developed countries have created special visas and entry requirements in an attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023916
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Estimating Immigrant Earnings Profiles When Migrations are Temporary
Dustmann, Christian - 2016
selective out-migration literature, our basic structure assumes that the process that determines out-migration is unrelated to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012988305
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The Effect of Attitudes Toward Migrants on Migrant Skill Composition
Avdiu, Besart - 2018
I investigate the effect of attitudes toward migrants on the average skill composition of immigrants in destination countries. A model is presented showing that negative attitudes toward migrants can reduce the average skill composition. The intuition for the result is that the highly skilled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012920757
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Do Ethnic Enclaves Impede Immigrants' Integration? Evidence from a Quasi-Experimental Social-Interaction Approach
Danzer, Alexander M.; Yaman, Firat - CESifo - 2012
It is widely debated whether immigrants who live among co-ethnics are less willing to integrate into the host society. Exploiting the quasi-experimental guest worker placement across German regions during the 1960/70s as well as information on immigrants’ inter-ethnic contact networks and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877983