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components of ethnicity -country of birth, race, skin color, language, and religion - among persons admitted to legal permanent …This paper examines ethnicity among highly skilled immigrants to the United States. The paper focuses on five classic …. India dominates EB-2 and European countries EB-1. (2) The ethnicity portfolio contains more languages than religions. (3 …
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immigrants' labour force participation rate and employment probability. For recent immigrants who arrived in Canada within the … the labour force activity of older immigrants who have lived in Canada for more than twenty years. Since immigrants could …
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. Protestants could decrease from 47 to 39 percent over the same period, establishing Catholicism as the largest religion among …
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The paper explores the evolution of ethnic identities of two important and distinct immigrant religious groups. Using data from Germany, a large European country with many immigrants, we study the adaptation processes of Muslims and Christians. Individual data on language, culture, societal...
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religious denomination on labour market outcomes, by estimating the differential impact of Protestantism versus Catholicism on … cultural background has a significant effect on the individual propensity to become an entrepreneur, with Protestantism …
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This paper analyzes the changing characteristics of Chinese immigrants to Canada between 1980 and 2001. It reveals that … recent Chinese immigrants to Canada constitute a substantially different group from those of former years. They are no longer …. Immigrants from Hong Kong and Taiwan shared more commonalities than with those from Mainland China. Given Canada's time dependent …
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that the growing importance of China in the globalization of R&D is more than a 'flash-in-the-pan'. On one hand, China is …As one of the world's largest recipients of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), China is emerging as a key global player … strengthening the indigenous innovation capacity of domestic actors and, to an increasing extent, to the process of globalization of …
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traits or whether the Chinese's supposed effectiveness is just a characteristic feature of any trading diaspora is open to … question. This comparative exploratory study of Chinese and Nigerian entrepreneurial migrants in Ghana and Benin provides … the innovative culture of Chinese entrepreneurial migrants versus that of African entrepreneurial migrants. Rather, there …
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around the world. The U.S. government responded to the events in China by enacting multiple measures to protect Chinese …The Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 and ensuing government crackdown affected Chinese nationals not only at home but … nationals present in the U.S. It first suspended all forced departures among Chinese nationals present in the country as of June …
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are those that form between migrants and natives in the host country and between migrants and their home country. Ethnic … networks exist when assimilation is not complete. We consider the struggle of migrants to assimilate and, at the same time, the … that it may well be in the interest of migrants who specialize in trade to, at some point in time, turn from investing in …
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