Showing 1 - 10 of 133
foreign markets. We illustrate that foreign workers foster exports at the extensive and the intensive margins. This effect can … find that foreign-born workers, and especially skilled individuals, foster exports at both margins. On average, a firm … employing foreign-born workers exports 30% more in value than a control firm. We find evidence that this increase is spread over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011595795
A key problem in the literature on the economics of migration is how emigration of an individual affects households left behind. Answers to this question must confront a problem I refer to as invisible sample selection: when entire households migrate, no information about them remains in their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427243
supplies, immigration, and economic responses to political chaos. A few of these, but not the majority, are seen as good …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263532
Germany has about the same proportion of foreigners in its population as the United States, it is an immigration … country. In a way, Germany has let immigration happen, but it did not really have an explicit immigration policy in the past …. Now it has to make up its mind on its immigration policy in the future. The paper looks at the experience with immigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273148
affect the nature of the immigration inflow can effectively reduce native income losses and dampen adjustment dynamics in … regional labor markets. One such intervention is to distribute the inflow more evenly over time. Smaller immigration inflows …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434952
This paper examines the long-run determinants of immigration to Germany using a modified version of the Ricardo model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283007
Cosmopolitan or anxious? In order to test the influence of conflicting aspects of identity, German respondents were asked about their attitude towards a Syrian refugee the description of whom was varied in various domains (N=662). Once the refugee is described as being aware of as well as open...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011518721
This paper investigates the relationship between exports and overseas links using data from the UK Community Innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265701
mitigate the agency cost generated by exogeneous exports variation via higher free cash flow and cash flow volatility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014282634
We test a New Economic Geography (NEG) model for U.S. counties, employing a new strategy that allows us to bring the full NEG model to the data, and to assess selected elements of this model separately. We find no empirical support for the full NEG model. Regional wages in the U.S. do not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321477