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The Pro-Trade Effect of Immigration on American Exports During the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Dunlevy, James A.; Hutchinson, William K. - 2001
use a modified gravity model to examine the migrant stock-export relationship and find that United States exports to a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262581
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People People : Social Capital and the Labor-Market Outcomes of Underrepresented Groups
Borghans, Lex; ter Weel, Bas; Weinberg, Bruce A. - 2005
Despite indications that interpersonal interactions are important for understanding individual labor-market outcomes and have become more important over the last decades, there is little analysis by economists. This paper shows that interpersonal interactions are important determinants of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262210
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Social Capital and the Uncertainty Reduction of Self-Employment
Blumberg, Boris F.; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2001
We study the self-employed decision and its relation to human and social capital. Human capital is necessary to acquire skills. Social capital dampens the effects of uncertainty about future income. Our data set consists of 1339 respondents from the same age group, who were interviewed three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262509
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The impact of social capital on crime: evidence from the Netherlands
Akçomak, I. Semih; ter Weel, Bas - 2008
This paper investigates the relation between social capital and crime. The analysis contributes to explaining why crime is so heterogeneous across space. By employing current and historical data for Dutch municipalities and by providing novel indicators to measure social capital, we find a link...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277209
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The economics of communist party membership: the curious case of rising numbers and wage premium during China's transition
Appleton, Simon; Knight, John; Song, Lina; Xia, Qingjie - 2008
surveys, spanning eleven years, to answer this question with respect to labour market rewards in urban China. We conceptualize …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268834
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Intergenerational Transmissions and the School-to-Work Transition of 2nd Generation Immigrants
Skyt Nielsen, Helena; Rosholm, Michael; Smith, Nina; … - 2001
We analyse the extent of intergenerational transmission through parental capital, ethnic capital and neighbourhood effects on several aspects of the school-to-work transition of 2 nd generation immigrants and young ethnic Danes. The main findings are that parental capital has strong positive...
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Intergenerational mobility of immigrants in Germany: moving with natives or stuck in their neighborhoods?
Yuksel, Mutlu - 2009
In this paper, I analyze intergenerational mobility of immigrants and natives in Germany. Using the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP), I find intergenerational elasticities that range from 0.19 to 0.26 for natives and from 0.37 to 0.40 for immigrants. These elasticity estimates are lower than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269398
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Trade Liberalization and Child Labor in China
Zhao, Liqiu; Wang, Fei; Zhao, Zhong - 2016
associated with the rising incidence of child labor in China. A one percentage point decrease in average export tariffs raises …This paper exploits a quasi-natural experiment – the U.S. granting of Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) to China … after China's accession to the World Trade Organization – to examine whether trade liberalization affects the incidence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584610
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Labor Mobility, Trade and Social Capital
Schiff, Maurice - 2004
Labor market integration raises welfare in the absence of distortions. This paper examines labor and goods market integration in a general equilibrium model with social capital. The findings are: i) labor market integration has an ambiguous impact on welfare, and raises it if the goods produced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261794
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Migration and Diversity : Human versus Social Capital
Manole, Vlad; Schiff, Maurice - 2004
This paper examines the welfare implications associated with different degrees of diversity or similarity between migrants and natives under both migration and trade. We use a general equilibrium model of migration, human capital and social capital and find that there are three equilibrium...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262028