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Using a rich dataset of primary school students in the Netherlands, this paper investigates the heterogeneous effects of immigrant concentration in the classroom on the academic achievement of natives. To identify the treatment effect, it takes advantage of some features of the Dutch primary...
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This paper examines the spatial interaction of neighboring cities over their employment cycles. The cycles of …-similar employment cycles, but neighboring cities with similar racial compositions tend to have less-similar employment cycles …
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First moves towards a real understanding of the offshoring phenomenon date back to very recent times, with employment … and productivity effects occupying much of the literature around the subject. In particular for Japan, the studies … analyses of the employment and productivity effects at the aggregate level of the industry, covering the years 1980 …
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This paper estimates the possible effects of offshoring on Japanese employment. Both the positive and negative effects … offshoring as a source of sector-bias change in an era of major structural changes for Japan. I argue that, as a natural result …
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. This helps to create entrepreneurs which help to create employment, which help to reduce poverty in Bangladesh. This whole …
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Government policies in the field of migration have been mainly reactive and regulatory. Similarly, research in the area of migration has been focussed primarily on the individual migrant and his individual family and surroundings. The main objective of this study was to develop a wider...
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Many migration theories identify ‘the law’ as a significant constraint on the international movement of persons. While this constraint often operates through national migration legislation, this study examines the influence of international law in shaping contemporary patterns in the...
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This paper provides a comprehensive assessment of international migration in the Asia-Pacific region and reviews internal migration in China. After putting Asia-Pacific migration in a global context, it reviews trends in migration and the impacts of migrants in the major migrantreceiving...
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to the crisis impact on employment, focusing on R&D sector as revealing the endogenous growth generating potential at …
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This paper provides new evidence on the consequences of foetal exposure to high levels of pollution for the risk of stillbirth, and for the long-term health and labour market outcomes of those that survive. Variation in in utero exposure comes from a persistent weather system that affected...
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