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Eastern partnership migrants in Germany : outcomes, potentials and challenges
Biavaschi, Costanza; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2013
) countries, very little is known about the magnitude and characteristics of migration from these countries. We find that EaP … to unleash the potential of migration for the German economy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229297
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Migrant networks and job search outcomes : evidence from displaced workers
Colussi, Tommaso - 2015
This paper investigates how immigrants' job search outcomes are affected by the labor market outcomes of workers from the same country of origin they are connected to. Connections are identified based on having worked for the same firm in the past. Using matched employer-employee micro data from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011336968
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Female migration and native marital stability : insights from Italy
Vignoli, Daniele; Venturini, Alessandra; Pirani, Elena - 2015
In this paper, we argue that the size and the composition of the female migrant population in a given area can affect the marital stability of natives. We take Italy as a case-study and we offer discrete-time event history models predicting marital disruption on data from the nationally –...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011347111
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Are immigrants favorably self-selected? : an economic analysis
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2000
the primary focus is on international migration, reference is made to internal migration and return migration. The … favorable selectivity is more intense the greater the out-of-pocket (direct) costs of migration and return migration, the … greater the effect of the higher level of ability on lowering the costs of migration, and the smaller the relative skill …
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How do native and migrant workers contribute to innovation? : a study on France, Germany and the UK
Fassio, Claudio; Montobbio, Fabio; Venturini, Alessandra - 2015
This paper uses the French and the UK Labour Force Surveys and the German Microcensus to estimate the effects of different components of the labour force on innovation at the sectoral level between 1994 and 2005. The authors focus, in particular, on the contribution of migrant workers. We adopt...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528595
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Migration, risk attitudes, and entrepreneurship : evidence from a representative immigrant survey
Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - 2013
Do more risk loving migrants opt for self-employment? This is a question especially relevant for policymakers designing selective immigration policies in countries of destination. In order to provide a rigorous answer to it, we use a novel vignette-adjusted measure of risk preferences in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010223620
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Migrant networks and the spread of misinformation
Elsner, Benjamin; Narciso, Gaia; Thijssen, Jacco J. J. - 2013
in the host country. While the existing literature explains the effect of networks on migration decisions through the … migration. Yet we find no evidence that the quality of the network affects the timing of migration. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010230050
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Migration, friendship ties and cultural assimilation
Facchini, Giovanni; Patacchini, Eleonora; Steinhardt, … - 2014
Using novel information from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the period 1996-2011, we document that migrants with a German friend are more similar to natives than those without a local companion along several important dimensions, including engagement in social activities, concerns about the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010230516
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Does foreign language proficiency foster migration of young individuals within the European Union?
Aparicio Fenoll, Ainoa; Kuehn, Zoë - 2014
, we test whether and how much language proficiency determines migration flows across Europe. The European Union with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010364961
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Do migrants send remittances as a way of self-insurance? : evidence from a representative immigrant survey
Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - 2014
Do migrants send remittances as a way of obtaining insurance? While this motive is theoretically suggested in the literature, the question of identifying this relationship empirically has only begun to be explored. Using a unique representative survey of 1500 immigrants in the Greater Dublin...
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