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Refugees and Foreign Direct Investment : Quasi-Experimental Evidence from U.S. Resettlements
Mayda, Anna Maria - 2020
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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Heterogeneous Immigrants and Foreign Direct Investment : The Role of Language Skills
Luecke, Matthias - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013013582
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Long-Term Relatedness between Countries and International Migrant Selection
Krieger, Tim - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012920428
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Teaching Practices and Social Capital
Algan, Yann - 2011
We use several data sets to consider the effect of teaching practices on student beliefs, as well as on organization of firms and institutions. In cross-country data, we show that teaching practices (such as copying from the board versus working on projects together) are strongly related to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119011
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Broadband Internet and Social Capital
Geraci, Andrea - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012909961
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Who Voted for Trump? Populism and Social Capital
Giuliano, Paola - 2020
We argue that low levels of social capital are conducive to the electoral success of populist movements. Using a variety of data sources for the 2016 US Presidential election at the county and individual levels, we show that social capital, measured either by the density of memberships in civic,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012826239
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Who Trusts Others? Community and Individual Determinants of Social Capital in a Low Income Country
Asadullah, M. 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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Local Social Capital and Geographical Mobility : Some Empirics and a Conjecture on the Nature of European Unemployment
David, Quentin; Janiak, Alexandre; Wasmer, Etienne - 2021
European labor markets are characterized by the low geographical mobility of workers. The absence of mobility is a factor behind high unemployment when jobless people prefer to remain in their home region rather than to go prospecting in more dynamic areas. In this paper, we attempt to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325000
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Local Social Capital and Geographical Mobility : A Theory
David, Quentin; Janiak, Alexandre; Wasmer, Etienne - 2021
In this paper, we attempt to understand the determinants of mobility by introducing the concept of local social capital. Investing in local ties is rational when workers anticipate that they will not move to another region. Reciprocally, once local social capital is accumulated, incentives to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325001
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A Simple Theory of Industry Location andResidence Choice
Borck, Rainald; Pflüger, Michael; Wrede, Matthias - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper provides a simple theory of geographical mobility which simultaneously explainspeople’s choice of residences in space and the location of industry. Residences are chosenon the basis of the utility which mobile households obtain across locations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862705