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Drivers of change or cut-throat competitors? Challenging Cultures of Innovation of Chinese and Nigerian migrant entrepreneurs in West Africa
Kohnert, Dirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The remarkable influx of Chinese migrant entrepreneurs in different West African countries in recent years has been met with growing resistance by established local entrepreneurs. Whether the former have a competitive edge over the latter because of distinctive socio-cultural traits, or whether...
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What happen to children's education when their parents emigrate? Evidence from Sri Lanka
Sarma, Vengadeshvaran; Parinduri, Rasyad - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
We examine the effects of parental emigration from Sri Lanka on the education of the migrants' children left behind … effects are heterogeneous: When the mothers migrate and the fathers stay behind, education of the children worsens; but, when … the fathers migrate and the mothers take care of the children, it improves. There are also some evidence boys, younger …
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Spellings Commission Report on Affordability and Access to Higher Education: changing demographics, economic crisis and investment in human capital
Orkodashvili, Mariam - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The paper discusses report of The Spellings Commission for Future of Higher Education that was set up to look into the issues facing the higher education system in the U.S., outline the challenges and offer recommendations to tackle the problems. Most importantly, The Spellings Commission Report...
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External Return to Education in Poland
Strawinski, Pawel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
In the article social rate of return to education is considered. As is pointed out in various research papers social return rate exceeds the pure technical rate of return by considerable margin. However, it is hard to calculate adequate figure due to methodological and data problems. The model...
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Fixing Europe's youth unemployment and skills mismatch, can public financial support to SMEs be effective? The case of the European Commission and European Investment Bank joint in...
Floreani, Vincent Arthur - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
“We risk having a generation that hasn’t held a job. Personal dignity comes from working [...] Young people are in a crisis". Pope Francis - July the 22nd, 2013. Youth unemployment is a critical issue across the European Union with 5.5 million people unemployed among the 18-24 years age...
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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? This paper uses exogenous home country exchange rate shocks arising from the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis to distinguish return motivations of a national sample of Australian...
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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...
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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...
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Employment in Romania: evidence from a panel data analysis
Vasilescu, Denisa Maria; Aparaschivei, Larisa; Roman, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The labour market in Romania is facing some imbalances arising from the negative demographic trends, legislative instability, poor correlation between the educational programs with the labour market, low labour productivity. The European Union labour market strategy aims at achieving 75%...
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Immigrants and Earnings Inequality: Evidence from Hong Kong
Ou, Dongshu; Kondo, Ayako - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Using data from 1991 to 2006 in Hong Kong, this paper documents how the distribution of workers’ earnings and the inequality of immigrants’ and natives’ earnings changed over time. We decompose earnings inequality to explore how the changes in immigrants’ share of the labor force have...
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