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The impact of worker effort on public sentiment towards temporary migrants
Epstein, Gil S.; Venturini, Alessandra - 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. -- migration ; exertion of effort ; contracted temporary migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009244026
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The impact of worker effort on public sentiment towards temporary migrants
Epstein, Gil S.; Venturini, Alessandra - 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. -- Migration ; Exertion of effort ; Contracted Temporary Migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008990097
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Informational Cascades and Decision to Migrate
Epstein, Gil S. - 2002
We introduce the idea that informational cascades can explain the observed regularity that emigrants from the same locations also tend to choose the same foreign locations. Thus informational cascades generate herd behavior. Herd behavior is compared with the network externalities explanation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262802
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Informational Cascades and Decision to Migrate
Epstein, Gil S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
We introduce the idea that informational cascades can explain the observed regularity that emigrants from the same locations also tend to choose the same foreign locations. Thus informational cascades generate herd behavior. Herd behavior is compared with the network externalities explanation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700933
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Informational cascades and decision to migrate
Epstein, Gil S. - 2002
We introduce the idea that informational cascades can explain the observed regularity that emigrants from the same locations also tend to choose the same foreign locations. Thus informational cascades generate herd behavior. Herd behavior is compared with the network externalities explanation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011406717
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005839085
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009001090
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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
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 … migrants may rise when temporary migration policies are adopted. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009019917
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010695852
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010861920