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International Student Mobility and High-Skilled Migration: The Evidence
Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Reczkowski, Isabella - 2012
Using information from the UNCTAD, we construct a new balanced panel database ofbilateral international student mobility for 150 origin countries, 23 host countries, andthe years 1970-2000. We match these data with information on bilateral stocks of internationalmigrants by educational...
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Singapurs Strategie zur Integration seiner multi-ethnischen Bevölkerung: was sich begegnet gleicht sich an
Zur-Lienen, Ulrich - 2002
Der öffentliche Wohnungsbau gilt im Hinblick auf die Integration der multi-ethnischen Bevölkerung des Stadtstaates Singapur als eine der 'Säulen der Nation'. Über ein ausgeklügeltes System der Alterssicherung macht er fast 90 Prozent der Einwohner zu Quasi-Eigentümern. Diesen Anreiz setzt...
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International mobility of engineers and the rise of entrepreneurship in the periphery
Saxenian, AnnaLee - 2006
By 2000, over one-third of Silicon Valley’s high-skilled workers were foreign-born, and overwhelmingly from Asia. These US-educated engineers are transforming developmental opportunities for formerly peripheral regions as they build professional and business connections to their home...
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Zuwanderung aus Indien: Ein großer Erfolg für Deutschland:Entwicklung und Bedeutung für die Fachkräftesicherung
Geis-Thöne, Wido - 2022
,6 Prozent der sozialversicherungspflichtig Beschäftigten Inder in Deutschland in Spezialisten- oder Expertentätigkeiten, die … Bevölkerung von 0,7 Prozent auf 1,6 Prozent gestiegen. Dabei haben sich auch die Zugangswege deutlich verschoben. Kamen die Inder … in der Welt, die gezielte Ansprache zuwanderungsinteressierter Personen in Indien insbesondere durch die Onlineplattform …
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Do networks do the works? Migration networks among Indian entrepreneurs in Poland and Belgium
Nestorowicz, Joanna - 2008
The thesis deals with the notion of migration networks. The focal point of the study is on the functioning of networks among immigrant entrepreneurs. Indian businessmen operating in Poland and Belgium are taken as an exemplification of the analyzed process. Theoretical considerations reflect...
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When Voicelessness Meets Speechlessness – Struggling for Equity in Chinese-Ghanaian Employment Relations
Giese, Karsten; Thiel, Alena - 2012
In this article Chinese-Ghanaian employment relations are analyzed using the concepts of foreignness, the psychological contract, equity, and cross-cultural communication. Based on a qualitative study conducted in Accra, Ghana, we discuss the labor market in general and introduce the conditions...
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Pulls of international student mobility
Kahanec, Martin; Králiková, Renáta - 2011
Economic theory suggests that high-skilled immigration generally has positive effects on the receiving economy. International student mobility is an important channel through which high-skilled immigrants arrive. The purpose of this paper is to identify some of the key determinants of...
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The determinants of international mobility of students
Beine, Michel; Noël, Romain; Ragot, Lionel - 2012
This paper analyzes the determinants of the choice of location of international students. Building on the documented trends in international migration of students, we develop a small theoretical model allowing to identify the various factors associated to the attraction of migrants as well as...
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Job Matching, Social Network and Word-of-Mouth Communication
Calvó-Armengol, Antoni; Zenou, Yves - 2003
Workers are embedded within a network of social relationships and can communicate through word-of-mouth. They can find a job either directly or through personal contacts. From this micro scenario, we derive an aggregate matching function that has the standard properties but fails to be...
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Performance spillovers and social network in the workplace: evidence from rural and urban weavers in a Chinese textile firm
Kato, Takao; Shu, Pian - 2008
We provide some of the first rigorous evidence on performance spillovers and social network in the workplace. The data we use are rather extraordinary - weekly data for rejection rates (proportion of defective output) for all weavers in a firm during a 12 months (April 2003-March 2004) period,...
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