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Farm Technology and Technical Efficiency: Evidencefrom Four Regions in China

Chen, Zhuo; Huffman, Wallace E. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2006

the same structure across regions and to berelated to the age of the farmer, land fragmentation, and the village migration …

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ARBEITSMIGRATION NACH JAPAN: RECHTLICHERAHMENBEDINGUNGEN, POLITISCHER DISKURS

Behaghel, Jeannette; Vogt, Gabriele - Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien <Tōkyō> - 2006

In 2000 the United Nations published a study named „Replacement Migration– Is it a Solution to Declining and Ageing … Populations?“ which highlightsthe effects replacement migration may have on the workforce of eight industrialcountries and two … world regions. For Japan to keep up its workforce, this studyfinds a replacement migration of up to ten million people per …

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Immigration Policy and Entrepreneurship

Mahuteau, Stéphane; Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimilano; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia’s immigration policy, introduced inthe mid-1990s, on migrants’ probability of becoming entrepreneurs. The policy changeconsists of stricter entry requirements and restrictions to welfare entitlements. The resultsindicate that those who...

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Ageing and migration trends: preparing for change in the EU´s labour market

Rossi, Vanessa; Burghart, Nora - Chartered Insurance Institute - 2009

Vass of Age Concern. However what about the impact of rising migration that also seems likely for Europe in the coming …

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POLISH IMMIGRANTS INLEICESTER:Forms of Capital UnderpinningEntrepreneurial Activity

Vershinina, Natalia; Barrett, Rowena; Meyer, Michael - Leicester Business School - 2009

In this paper we report a study of 10 Polish immigrant entrepreneurs operating inLeicester, UK. Like Ram, Theodorakopoulos and Jones (2008) we take a forms-ofcapitalapproach but use Bourdieu’s (1983) social, cultural and economic capitals asthe lens through which to explore their pathways to...

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Was Dick Whittington Taller Than Those He Left Behind? Anthropometric Measures, Migration and the Quality of Life in Early Nineteenth Century London

Humphries, Jane; Leunig, Tim - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

explanatory variable in the analysis of migration. Although correlated with other variables that are routinely used in …

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The Roofs of Wren and Jones: A Seventeenth-Century Migration of Technical Knowledge from Italy to England

Valeriani, Simona - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006

Seventeenth-century English architecture saw the introduction of a new style, influenced by continental Europe, and driven, to a large extent, by the work of Inigo Jones and Christopher Wren. But along with the aesthetic novelty came novel building techniques; construction methods embedded...

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Are Human Rights and Economic Well-Being Substitutes? Evidence from Migration Patterns across the Indian States

Libman, Aleksandr M.; Herrmann-Pillath, Carsten; Yadav, … - Frankfurt School of Finance & Management - 2011

samples westudy the intra-national migration in a federation with significant economic and political differencesbetween states … patterns of migration: lower numberof human rights violations acts as a “pull” factor for individual states only if the …

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Firm Migration and Stock Returns

Puopolo, Giovanni W. - Finrisk - 2009

This paper studies the asset pricing implications of a general equi-librium model in which real investment is reversible at a cost. Firmsface higher costs in contracting than in expanding their capital stockand decide to invest when their productive capital is scarce relativeto the overall...

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Diversität durch Migration –eine Chance für die Wirtschaft

Dankwart, Saskia; David, Alexandra; Hamburg, Ileana; … - Institut für Arbeit und Technik - 2010

Globalisierung ist ein Transformationsprozess, der nicht nur die Wirtschaft betrifft, sondern auch Konsequenzen für den Migrationsfluss hat. Migranten stellen ein kulturelles und wirt‐schaftliches Kapital für Regionen und ihre Un‐ternehmen dar. Identifikation mit einer Region wird vor...

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