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Bulgaria - Country Study on International Skilled Migration
Beleva, Iskra; Kotzeva, Mariana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001
The paper adduces recent existing evidence on the scope and dimensions of “brain-drain “ from Bulgaria. The analysis started with the clarification of the concepts and definitions for brain drain. The authors based the analysis on the common accepted understanding of brain drain as tertiary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257926
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The Return Motivations of Legal Permanent Migrants: Evidence from Exchange Rate Shocks and Immigrants in Australia
Abarcar, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Why do legal permanent migrants return to their home countries? How do home country conditions influence this decision … depreciation in the home country currency) leads to a reduced likelihood of return of 0.37 percentage points for migrants. The … reject the theory that migrants are target earners who seek to invest upon return home. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011250907
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Immigrant Concentration at School and Natives' Achievement : Does the Type of Migrants and Natives Matter?
Bossavie, Laurent - 2017
concentration of migrants with low parental education, while migrants with high parental education are found to have no impact. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012950369
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Negative selectivity of Europe’s guest-worker immigration?
Dronkers, Jaap; Heus, Manon de - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The aim of this paper is to empirically test the negative selectivity hypothesis as an explanation of the lower educational achievements of Turkish immigrant pupils. We do this by comparing educational achievement Turkish immigrant pupils in various European countries with the educational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008536052
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Employment and Social Cohesion
Scarlat, Valentin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The EU is striving to create growth and jobs through a multilateral approach. In particular, measures improving the competitiveness of our economies, stimulating innovation and productivity and strengthening the marginal incentives to work are considered. At the same time, EU energy policies are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543486
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The Long Term Impacts of Migration in British Cities: Diversity, Wages, Employment and Prices
Nathan, Max - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
migrants progressively displace lower-skill natives from specific sectors). The results, which survive causality checks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008869290
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A social proximity explanation of the reluctance to assimilate
Fan, C. Simon; Stark, Oded - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Quite often, migrants appear to exert little effort to absorb the mainstream culture and to learn the language of their … migrants’ comparing themselves more with the richer natives and less with fellow migrants, then the effort extended to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021976
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The Impact of Syrian Refugees on Natives' Labor Market Outcomes in Turkey: Evidence from a Quasi-Experimental Design
Ceritoglu, Evren; Yunculer, Gurcihan; Burcu, H.; Torun, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
refugees on the labor market outcomes of natives in Turkey. Using a difference-in-differences strategy, we find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011127577
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Todo el mundo es país. Rapporto col proprio lavoro e percezione della discriminazione nella popolazione immigrata
Pietravalle, Lorenzo; Savioli, Marco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Relevant incoming immigration flows to Italy are novel for a country that has been source of emigrants for a long time. Immigrants are often discriminated against in housing, education, health and work. The perceptive aspect (how much immigrants actually feel discriminated) reveals the inner...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011240780
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Identity matters: inter- and intra-racial disparity and labor market outcomes
Mason, Patrick L. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Standard analysis of racial inequality incorporates racial classification as an exogenous binary variable. This approach obfuscates the importance of racial self-identity and clouds our ability to understand the relative importance of unobserved productivity-linked attributes versus market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008565422