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How has internal migration in Albania affected the receipt of transfers from family and friends?
Tomini, Florian; Hagen-Zanker, Jessica - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Social networks of family and friends are very important in providing economic and social support to households. The … and the family left behind. This study analyses households that migrate together to the peripheries of Tirana (Albania … the change in the composition of transfers and the substitution of family members by friends after migrating. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009004045
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The effects of training on Romanian migrants’ income: a propensity score matching approach
Roman, Monica; Popescu, Madalina Ecaterina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Training programs are an important tool of human resource management, especially in case of technological and organizational changes inside a company. According to the human capital theory, trainings generally lead to increased post-training wages. Having this into consideration, this paper aims...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011211852
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Romania and the new economy of migration: costs, decision, networks, development
Silasi, Grigore; Simina, Ovidiu Laurian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
In some earlier studies, as a response to the media debate during the hot summer of 2006, regarding Romania’s emigration as following the accession to the EU, we were saying that the fear of mass migration from Romania was not justified. Romania is not only a gateway for the East-West...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258909
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How does relationship-based governance accommodate new entrants? Evidence from the cycle rickshaw rental market
Jain, Tarun; Sood, Ashima - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
A large theoretical and empirical literature suggests that the salience of network-based ties in contract enforcement under relation-based governance systems limits market expansion. This paper illustrates the incorporation of new agents into market exchange under conditions of informal contract...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259043
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Some Determinants of Interstate Migration of Blacks, 1965-1970
Cebula, Richard; Kohn, Robert; Vedder, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1972
migration decision of blacks, with the distance variable being statistically significant at the five percent level or better in … perhaps may be more important than even per capita personal black income in influencing the migration decision of blacks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259706
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Migration and the Tiebout-Tullock Hypothesis Revisited
Cebula, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001
single-family housing price inflation rate, a mea­sure of previous-period growth in real income per capita, and quality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260031
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¿Ha contribuido la población inmigrante a la convergencia interregional en España?
Fernandez-Leiceaga, Xoaquin; Lago-Peñas, Santiago; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
. Immigrants choose to go to regions where there are more job opportunities or acquaintances and family networks, but not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260759
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Earnings on the information technology roller coaster: insight from matched employer-employee data
Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Pitts, M. Melinda; Robertson, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This article uses matched employer-employee data for the State of Georgia to examine workers' earnings experience through the information technology (IT) sector's employment boom of the mid-1990's and bust in the early 2000s. The results show that even after controlling for pre-boom individual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005260035
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With strings attached: Grandparent-provided child care, fertility, and female labor market outcomes
García-Morán, Eva; Kuehn, Zoe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
labor force participation change under different family policies. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651388
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“Better Safe than Sorry” - Individual Risk-free Pension Schemes in the European Union - Macroeconomic Benefits, the Mobile Working Citizen’s Perspective and Why Nots
Peeters, Marga - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Variations between the diverse pension systems in the member states of the European Union hamper labour market mobility, across country borders but also within the countries of the European Union. From a macroeconomic perspective, and in the light of demographic pressure, this paper argues that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009322625