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causal relationship from homeownership to unemployment. The literature confirms a decreasing effect of homeownership on … geographical mobility of workers, but does not in general confirm that homeowners have longer unemployment spells or higher … unemployment rates. Even though this finding is related to heterogeneity in the labour force and associated selectivity effects …
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causal relationship from homeownership to unemployment. The literature confirms a decreasing effect of homeownership on … geographical mobility of workers, but does not in general confirm that homeowners have longer unemployment spells or higher … unemployment rates. Even though this finding is related to heterogeneity in the labour force and associated selectivity effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325367
respect to a one percentage point increase in the ratio of immigrants over native workers. While many studies in our sample …
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In this paper we determine the effect of transport cost on commuting flows, on the basis of an analysis of home-to-work journeys between municipalities in Denmark. Special attention is given to a proper estimation method and the form of the distance-decay function. It appears that neither an...
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’ of the decline in native-born employment following a 1 percent increase in the number of immigrants is a mere 0 …
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This study focuses on the external orientations of the second-generation migrant entrepreneurs by addressing in particular the way – and the extent to which – the choice for entrepreneurship is made by higher-educated young ethnic generations. The empirical data of our study is based on...
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Nowadays, migrants form a significant share of the urban population, and their business is critical for urban economic growth. This paper addresses the key factors determining the position of migrant entrepreneurs in the urban economy in the Netherlands. In order to develop a solid assessment of...
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A burgeoning literature has emerged during the last two decades to assess the economic impacts of immigration on host countries. In recent years much research has been at the national level under the assumption that impacts in open regions may dissipate through adjustment processes such as...
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diffusion of innovation activity, and the spatial selectivity of immigrants' location choices, we take account of spatial … level of immigrants (proxied by global regions of origin) also affects patent applications. In contrast, an increasing share … immigrants from different backgrounds is a more important driving force for innovation than the sheer size of the immigrant …
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The number of immigrants across the world has doubled since 1980. The estimates of the impact of immigration on wages …
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