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International trade and migrant networks : is It really about qualifications?
Martín Montaner, Joan A.; Requena Silvente, Francisco; … - In: Estudios de economía 41 (2014) 2, pp. 251-260
Personal characteristics of migrants could help to strengthen the impact of migrant networks on bilateral trade. While most of the attention has been focused on immigrants' educational attainment, this paper focuses on the relevance of the tasks carried out by migrants. Our empirical results...
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How do immigrants promote exports? : networks, knowledge, diversity.
Orefice, Gianluca; Rapoport, Hillel; Santoni, Gianluca - 2022
How do immigrants promote exports? To answer this question we propose a unified empirical framework allowing to identify and disentangle the main mechanisms put forth in the literature: the role of networks in reducing bilateral transaction costs, and the productivity shifts arising from...
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Networks and migrants' intended destination
Bertoli, Simone; Ruyssen, Ilse - 2016
Social networks are known to influence migration decisions, but connections between individuals can hardly be observed …. We rely on individual-level surveys conducted by Gallup in 147 countries that provide information on migration intentions … migrant stocks across countries, and bilateral migration intentions appear to be significantly correlated with actual flows …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011532582
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The formation of immigrant networks in the short and the long run
Epstein, Gil S.; Heizler, Odelia - In: Economies : open access journal 4 (2016) 3, pp. 1-16
In this paper, we present a formal framework of possible network formations among immigrants. After arriving in the new country, one of the new immigrant’s important decisions is with whom to maintain a link in the foreign country. We find that the behavior of the first two immigrants affects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011542617
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Linguistic Distance, Networks and Migrants' Regional Location Choice
Bredtmann, Julia - 2017
This paper analyzes the interaction between migrant networks and linguistic distance in the location choice of migrants to the EU at the regional level. We test the hypothesis that networks and the ability to communicate in the host country language, proxied by linguistic distance, are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012942121
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How Do Immigrants Promote Exports? Networks, Knowledge, Diversity
Orefice, Gianluca; Rapoport, Hillel; Santoni, Gianluca - 2021
productivity shifts arising from migration-induced knowledge diffusion and increased workforce diversity. While we find evidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013212263
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The social integration of international migrants: evidence from the networks of Syrians in Germany
Bailey, Michael; Johnston, Drew M.; Koenen, Martin; … - 2022
We use de-identified data from Facebook to study the social integration of Syrian migrants in Germany, a country that received a large influx of refugees during the Syrian Civil War. We construct measures of migrants’ social integration based on Syrians’ friendship links to Germans, their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013174171
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Linguistic distance, networks and migrants' regional location choice
Bredtmann, Julia; Nowotny, Klaus; Otten, Sebastian - 2017
misst, in der Sprache des Einwanderungslandes zu kommunizieren, in der Ansiedlungsentscheidung von Migranten Substitute … ethnischen Netzwerks einen positiven Einfluss auf die Ansiedlungsentscheidung von Migranten hat, während die linguistische …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011764635
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Linguistic distance, networks and migrants' regional location choice
Bredtmann, Julia; Nowotny, Klaus; Otten, Sebastian - 2017
This paper analyzes the interaction between migrant networks and linguistic distance in the location choice of migrants to the EU at the regional level. We test the hypothesis that networks and the ability to communicate in the host country language, proxied by linguistic distance, are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011764646
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Networks and Migrants' Intended Destination
Bertoli, Simone - 2016
Social networks are known to influence migration decisions, but connections between individuals can hardly be observed …. We rely on individual-level surveys conducted by Gallup in 147 countries that provide information on migration intentions … migrant stocks across countries, and bilateral migration intentions appear to be significantly correlated with actual flows …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012982972