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Refugees and foreign direct investment : quasi-experimental evidence from U.S. resettlements
Mayda, Anna Maria; Parsons, Christopher R.; Han Pham; … - 2019
outward FDI to their countries of origin. Drawing upon aggregated individual-level refugee and project-level FDI data, we … show that outward FDI to refugees' countries of origin grew more from those U.S. commuting zones that hosted greater … refugees fostered FDI to their home region, while national domestic reforms in Vietnam amplified the positive FDI …
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Migration and globalization : what's in it for developing countries?
Rapoport, Hillel - 2016
emerging economies. It documents the role of diaspora networks in enhancing cross-border flows of goods, capital, and knowledge …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011518125
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Migration and cross-border financial flows
Kugler, Maurice; Levintal, Oren; Rapoport, Hillel - 2013
The gravity model has provided a tractable empirical framework to account for bilateral flows not only of manufactured goods, as in the case of merchandise trade, but also of financial flows. In particular, recent literature has emphasized the role of information costs in preventing larger...
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Heterogeneous immigrants and foreign direct investment : the role of language skills
Lücke, Matthias; Heidland, Tobias - 2015
We investigate the interplay of language skills and immigrant stocks in determining bilateral FDI out-stocks of OECD … immigrants on bilateral FDI – provided that residents of the two countries have few language skills in common. We find a similar … effect for immigrants from third countries that speak the language(s) of the FDI host country, making them potential …
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Global talent flows
Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; Özden, Çağlar; … - 2016
The global distribution of talent is highly skewed and the resources available to countries to develop and utilize their best and brightest vary substantially. The migration of skilled workers across countries tilts the deck even further. Using newly available data, we first review the landscape...
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International migration and institutional quality in the home country : it matters where you go and how long you stay!
Tran, Ngoc Thi Minh; Cameron, Michael; Poot, Jacques - 2017
country's diaspora constitutes one of the four principal channels through which international migration may alter development … numbers to measure the diaspora size, we calculate institutional-quality-adjusted immigrant stocks to allow for variations in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011716182
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Broadband internet and social capital
Geraci, Andrea; Nardotto, Mattia; Reggiani, Tommaso; … - 2018
We study how the diffusion of broadband Internet affects social capital using two data sets from the UK. Our empirical strategy exploits the fact that broadband access has long depended on customers' position in the voice telecommunication infrastructure that was designed in the 1930s. The...
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Long-term relatedness between countries and international migrant selection
Krieger, Tim; Renner, Laura; Ruhose, Jens - 2018
This paper studies the effect of the long-term relatedness between countries, measured by their genetic distance, on educational migrant selection. Analyzing bilateral migrant stocks of the 15 main destination countries and 85 sending countries for the year 2000, we find that migrant selection...
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Who trusts others? : community and individual determinants of social capital in a low income country
Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz - 2016
This study presents new evidence on individual and community-specific determinants of social trust using data from 96 villages in Bangladesh. We find perceived institutional trust to be positively correlated with stated inter-personal trust. At the same time, there is significant social distance...
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Civility and trust in social media
Antoci, Angelo; Bonelli, Laura; Paglieri, Fabio; … - 2018
Social media have been credited with the potential of reinvigorating trust by offering new opportunities for social and political participation. This view has been recently challenged by the rising phenomenon of online incivility, which has made the environment of social networking sites hostile...
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