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Migrants, Ethnicity and Strategic Assimilation

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N - Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick - 2006

Ethnic networks are a way of overcoming informal barriers to trade such as information costs, risk, and uncertainty by building trust and by substituting for the difficulty of enforcing contracts internationally. We study networks which emerge from the interaction (i) between migrants and...

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The Impact of Worker Effort on Public Sentiment Towards Temporary Migrants

Epstein, Gil S.; Venturini, Alessandra - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Temporary and circular migration programs have been devised by many destination countries and supported by the European … additional reason for proposing temporary migration policies based on the characteristics of the foreign labor-effort supply. The … when temporary migration policies are adopted. …

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The Impact of Worker Effort on Public Sentiment Towards Temporary Migrants

Epstein, Gil S.; Venturini, Alessandra - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2011

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Assimilation through Marriage

Epstein, Gil S.; Lindner Pomerantz, Renana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

During the last few decades cultural changes have been taking place in many countries due to migration. The degree to …

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Assimilation through Marriage

Epstein, Gil S.; Pomerantz, Renana Lindner - Department of Economics, Bar Ilan University - 2012

During the last few decades cultural changes have been taking place in many countries due to migration. The degree to …

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Frontier Issues of the Political Economy of Migration

Epstein, Gil S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Migration has a strong economic impact on the sending and host countries. Since individuals and groups do not benefit … equally from migration, interest groups emerge to protect and take care of their narrow self-interests and compete for rents … generated by migration. Narrow self-interests may be present not only for interest groups but also for ruling politicians and …

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The Impact of Worker Effort on Public Sentiment Towards Temporary Migrants

Epstein, Gil S.; Venturini, Alessandra - Department of Economics, Bar Ilan University - 2011

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Frontier Issues of the Political Economy of Migration

Epstein, Gil S. - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2012

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Assimilation through Marriage

Epstein, Gil S.; Pomerantz, Renana Lindner - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2012

During the last few decades cultural changes have been taking place in many countries due to migration. The degree to …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010895121

Ethnic Networks and International Trade

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2004

There is a well-established high quality literature on the role of networks, particularly ethnic networks, in international trade. Ethnic networks are a way of overcoming informal barriers (information costs, risk and uncertainty) to trade by building trust and substituting for the difficulty of...

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