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Isolating the Network Effect of Immigrants on Trade
Aleksynska, Mariya - 2012
those contributing to export by the largest margin. Business network effects seem particularly important in stimulating …
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How Do Immigrants Promote Exports? Networks, Knowledge, Diversity
Orefice, Gianluca; Rapoport, Hillel; Santoni, Gianluca - 2022
How do immigrants promote exports? To answer this question we propose a unified empirical framework allowing to identify and disentangle the main mechanisms put forth in the literature: the role of networks in reducing bilateral transaction costs, and the productivity shifts arising from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014241961
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Immigrant Entrepreneurs, Diasporas and Exports
Bratti, Massimiliano - 2018
) through which immigrants generate increased export flows from the regions in which they settle to their countries of origin … relationship going from diasporas and immigrant entrepreneurs towards export flows. Both the size of the diaspora and the number of …'s overall competitiveness and export flows towards all potential destinations …
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On the Pro-Trade Effects of Immigrants
Bratti, Massimiliano - 2012
the areal unit, we find a positive association between immigrants' stocks and both export and import flows, in line with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104938
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The Labour Market Position of Turkish Immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands : Reason for Migration, Naturalisation and Language Proficiency
Euwals, Rob; Dagevos, Jaco; Gijsberts, Mérove; … - 2007
). First, we find that educational attainment and language proficiency have a higher return in the Netherlands than in Germany …, while for Germany we find a negative relation with tenured employment. The contrasting results on tenured employment may be … explained partly by differences in immigration rules. In Germany economic self-reliance is more important than in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014051625
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Immigration, Integration and the Labour Market : Turkish Immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands
Euwals, Rob; Dagevos, Jaco; Gijsberts, Mérove; … - 2007
Germany and the Netherlands. We compare labour market outcomes of Turkish immigrants, including both the first and second … large for Germany. Differences in past immigration policies between Germany and the Netherlands are likely to be important …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014051634
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Exposure to Past Immigration Waves and Attitudes Toward Newcomers
Gihleb, Rania; Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca - 2022
How does previous exposure to massive immigrant inflows affect concerns about current immigration and the integration of refugees? To answer this question, we investigate attitudes toward newcomers among natives and previous immigrants. In areas that in the 1990s received higher inflows of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014077015
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Immigration and Electoral Outcomes : Evidence from the 2015 Refugee Inflow to Germany
Bredtmann, Julia - 2022
Germany. Based on quasi-random variation in the allocation of refugees across municipalities and unique data on refugee …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014082391
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Scared Straight? Threat and Assimilation of Refugees in Germany
Jaschke, Philipp; Sardoschau, Sulin; Tabellini, Marco - 2022
This paper studies the effects of threat on convergence to local culture and on economic assimilation of refugees, exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in their allocation across German regions between 2013 and 2016. We combine novel survey data on cultural preferences and economic outcomes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083952
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Measuring Labour Differences between Natives, Non-Natives, and Natives with an Ethnic-Minority Background
Drydakis, Nick - 2017
Through a field study we measure differences in employment outcomes between natives, non-natives, and natives with an ethnic-minority background. It is suggested that the joint effect of productivity uncertainties and distastes against ethnic-minority groups should be higher for non-natives than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012948614