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This study analyses the impact of cultural composition on regional attractiveness from the perspective of migrant sorting behaviour. We use an attitudinal survey to quantify cultural distances between natives and immigrants in the area concerned, and estimate the migrants' varying preferences...
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This study analyses the impact of cultural composition on regional attractiveness from the perspective of migrant sorting behaviour. We use an attitudinal survey to quantify cultural distances between natives and immigrants in the area concerned, and estimate the migrants' varying preferences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010358424
Along with the increasing pace of globalization, recent decades faced a dramatically increase in international migrant flows as well. Compared to the flows of trade, capital and knowledge, we observe that contemporaneous complex institutional differences, historical backgrounds, and individuals'...
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the China Economic & Industry Data Database. From a methodical perspective, an entropy method and a perpetual inventory … above relationship. As to the existence of spatial autocorrelation, spatial panel data analysis was conducted to test these … hypotheses. The study finds that inbound tourism is a driving force for a regional innovation system in China and can bring a new …
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We focus on both individual and local uncertainty to explain the innovation potential of entrepreneurs in the NUTS1 UK regions in 2005 and 2009. The 'potential surprise function' (Shackle, 1949) clarifying why sometimes promising business choices are truncated is taken as a determinant of an...
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This paper introduces cultural gravity as a new concept for analyzing socio-economic disparities among immigrants. It tests the existence of cultural gravity effects on the geographic concentration and human capital productivity of immigrants. Using cultural distance as a proxy for the local...
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