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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 … numbers of refugees after 1990.Secondly, we exploit the specificities of the Indochina Migration and Refugee Assistance Act …
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, the process of domestic accumulation of HC might be affected in several ways through migration and capital inflows …. Furthermore, endowment of skilled labour and foreign direct investments (FDI) may reinforce each other through possible quot … presence of a virtuous (vicious) circle between HC accumulation and FDI inflows …
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This paper studies the relationship between immigration and offshoring by examining whether an influx of foreign workers reduces the need for firms to relocate jobs abroad. We exploit a Danish quasi-natural experiment in which immigrants were randomly allocated to municipalities using a refugee...
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This paper examines whether family and community migration experience affect theprobability of high school graduation …
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The slave trades out of Africa represent one of the most significant forced migration experiences in history. In this … paper I illustrate their long-term consequences. I first consider the influence of the slave trade on the "sending … consequences of the slave trade on the "receiving" countries in the Americas. Here I distinguish between the case of Latin America …
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This paper analyses the determinants and correlates of different forms of migration, including circular, temporary and … believe that understanding who moves and whether temporarily or circularly will help formulate more effective migration …
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origin countries, it also induces positive effects through various channels such as remittances, return migration, diaspora … praise the unambiguous benefits of unskilled migration for developing countries, my analysis suggests that a limited but …
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This paper sheds light on the apparent paradox, wherein populations adversely affected by climatic conditions fail to migrate as much as would otherwise be expected. Drawing on Hirschman's treatise on Exit, Voice and Loyalty, we develop a simple model, which highlights the theoretical case for a...
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Katz and Rapoport (2005) conclude that with linear production technology and the possibility of unilateral migration … result with Cobb-Douglas technology and migration which may go in both directions. This paper shows that the exit option may …
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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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