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Social Cohesion and Labor Mobility
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2018
Social cohesion and labor mobility both have the same objective and do not need to be in conflict. They are about cooperating among individuals and societies in order to survive and prosper. Social cohesion can benefit from labour mobility: Labour mobility is economically beneficial for migrants...
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Ability Drain: Size, Impact, and Comparison with Brain Drain under Alternative Immigration Policies
Schiff, Maurice - 2017
) have been studied extensively, AD has not. I examine migration's impact on ability (a), education (h), and productive human …, and b) the 'vetting' system (VS) which accounts for s (e.g., US H-1B program). Findings are: i) Migration reduces (raises …
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Should I stay or should I go? Migration and job-skills mismatch among Italian doctoral recipients
Alfano, Vincenzo; D'Uva, Marcella; De Simone, Elina; … - 2019
’ selfselection into non-academic employment as well as the endogeneity of the migration choice. Results demonstrate that migration … seems to facilitate the possibility of finding better job opportunities. More specifically, only migration within the …
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Social Networks and Mental Health Outcomes: Chinese Rural-Urban Migrant Experience
Meng, Xin; Xue, Sen - 2019
cities can mitigate these adverse mental health effects. Using a unique longitudinal survey data of Rural-to-Urban Migration …
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Economic impact of STEM immigrant workers
Baum, Christopher F.; Lööf, Hans; Stephan, Andreas - 2018
STEM-focused industries are critical to the innovation-driven economy. As many firms are running short of STEM workers, international immigrants are increasingly recognized as a potential for high-tech job recruitment. This paper studies STEM occupations in Sweden 2011–2015 and tests...
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Anti-Migration as a Threat to Internationalization? A Review of the Migration-Internationalization Literature
Hatzigeorgiou, Andreas; Lodefalk, Magnus - 2018
Does anti-migration sentiment threaten internationalization? One major pro-Brexit argument was that it would enable … more control over immigration. The most recent US presidential election also focused on immigration. Anti-migration … migration-trade nexus, there are few examples of policymakers highlighting the role of migration for internationalization. One …
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The Belt and Road Initiative. Demographic trends, labour markets and welfare systems of member countries
Bruni, Michele - 2019
migration flows in the amount and with the educational stricture coherent with their needs. However, such a process is extremely …
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A strictly economic explanation of gender roles: The lasting legacy of the plough.
Cigno, Alessandro - 2020
We show that the descendants of ancient farmers may have an interest in marrying among themselves, and thus maintaining the gendered division of labour, originally justified on comparative-advantage grounds by the advent of the plough, even after they emigrate to a modern industrial economy...
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“A Global City in a Global Pandemic: Assessing the Ongoing Impact of COVID Induced Trends on London’s Economic Sectors”
Anderson, Dylan; Hesketh, Rachel; Kleinman, Mark; … - 2020
Over the last 50 years, London has successfully adapted to technological change and globalization, making it the major driver of the UK economy. But its strengths have also made the city particularly vulnerable to the health impacts of COVID-19, and potentially also to wider negative economic...
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Social Barriers to Female Migration: Theory and Evidence from Bangladesh
Amirapu, Amrit; Asadullah, M Niaz; Wahhaj, Zaki - 2020
Traditional gender norms can restrict independent migration by women, thus preventing them from taking advantage of … using marriage to engage in long-distance migration - if they are able to match with migrating grooms. Guided by a … theoretical model in which women make marriage and migration decisions jointly, we hypothesize that marriage and labour markets …
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