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On Immigration and Native Entrepreneurship
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Jaeger, David A.; McHenry, Peter - 2021
We present a novel theory that immigrants facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by being willing and able to … observationally equivalent natives. Areas with large numbers of immigrants may therefore lead to more entrepreneurship and innovation …
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Risk, Balanced Skills and Entrepreneurship
Hsieh, Chihmao - 2011
the impacts both of risk aversion and balanced skills on the likelihood individuals choose entrepreneurship. Data on Dutch …-averse people might be suited to entrepreneurship; and it may also help explain why prior research has generated mixed evidence … about the effects of risk aversion on selection into entrepreneurship …
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Cherry-picking or frog-kissing? : a theoretical analysis of how investors select entrepreneurial ventures in thin venture capital markets
Bertoni, Fabio; D'Adda, Diego; Grilli, Luca - In: Small business economics : an entrepreneurship journal 46 (2016) 3, pp. 391-405
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Making it Work : The Mixed Embeddedness of Immigrant Entrepreneurs in New Zealand
Cain, Trudie - 2013
In seeking economic immigrants, especially those who are skilled, entrepreneurial and with capital to invest, a settler country such as New Zealand has assumed that national and city labour markets/economies will gain by adding to the human capital pool as well as creating new 'economic'...
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Private interests and government policy in a global world
Jones, Ronald Winthrop - 2000
Today’s global world is characterized not only by a high volume ofinternational trade and foreign investment relativeto national income, but also by a changed composition of that tradetowards a greater fraction of trade in inputs andcapital goods and outsourcing of production.. Emphasized is...
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Human capital formation, income inequality and growth
Viaene, Jean-Marie; Zilcha, Itzhak - 2001
The paper studies the determinants of income distribution and growth in an overlapping generations economy withheterogenous households. Our framework has the following main features:heterogeneity of consumers with respect to wealth and parental human capital;intergenerational transfers,...
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Illegal Immigration and Fiscal Competition
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu - 2015
Reflecting recent enforcement policy activism of US states, this paper examines federal-state overlap of illegal immigration policy in a spatial context. Keeping the US-Mexico context in mind, we assume that labor from a source nation enters a host nation through bordering states. Once in the...
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Skilled Immigrants' Contribution to Productive Efficiency
Nahm, Daehoon - 2014
This paper studies whether skilled migrants contribute to the host country's 'productive efficiency' (Farrell, 1957) using input-output and immigration sectoral data for seven industries in twelve countries during the period 1999-2001. We find that skilled migrants contribute positively to a...
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Immigration and Outsourcing : A General Equilibrium Analysis
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu - 2007
This paper analyzes immigration and outsourcing in a general-equilibrium model of international factor mobility. In our model, legal immigration of skilled labor is controlled through a quota, while outsourcing is determined both by the firms in response to market conditions and through...
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Empowering Migrants : Impacts of a Migrant's Amnesty on Crime Reports
Ibanez, Ana; Rozo, Sandra; Bahar, Dany - 2021
How can the regularization of approximately half a million migrant's impact crime reports in hosting areas? To identify the effects of this large amnesty, we match confidential administrative data on the location of undocumented migrants with department-monthly data from crime reports and...
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