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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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Labour Market Outcomes and Skill Acquisition in the Host Country : North African Migrants Returning Home from the European Union

Mahuteau, Stephane - 2011

This paper studies the educational investment decisions of returning migrants while abroad in the context of their decisions about the choice of activity upon returning and the duration of migration. The theoretical model builds on Dustmann (1999), Dustmann and Kirchkamp (1992) and Mesnard...

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Women entrepreneurs : "we cannot have change unless we have men in the room"

Kamberidou, Irene - In: Journal of innovation and entrepreneurship : JIE 2 (2013), pp. 1-17

What is being done to support female entrepreneurship and in particular promote the ways in which information and …'s entrepreneurship and how ICT facilitates and fosters it. The European Commission is dynamically promoting, supporting, and encouraging … female entrepreneurship. Europe needs more women entrepreneurs and actions are being taken to overcome the obstacles and …

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"Distinguished" women entrepreneurs in the digital economy and the multitasking whirlpool

Kamberidou, Irene - In: Journal of innovation and entrepreneurship : JIE 9 (2020) 3, pp. 1-26

develop professionally and succeed as an entrepreneur? What are the major barriers to successful entrepreneurship preventing … spotlight gender gaps in entrepreneurship as well as the sovalued career-family balance, while still arguing that further … research is needed. They also agree that successful entrepreneurship requires digital skills along with the drive for …

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Immigration Policy and Entrepreneurship

Mahuteau, Stephane - 2012

This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced in the mid-1990s, on migrants' probability of becoming entrepreneurs. The policy change consists of stricter entry requirements and restrictions to welfare entitlements. The results indicate that those who...

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