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German-Jewish Emigres and U.S. Invention
Moser, Petra - 2015
Historical accounts suggest that the arrival of German Jewish émigrés who fled the Nazi regime revolutionized U.S. science and innovation. This paper presents the first systematic analysis of the émigrés' effects on U.S. innovation. Difference-in-differences analyses compare changes in...
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Immigrant Inventors and Diversity in the Age of Mass Migration
Campo, Francesco - 2020
A possible unintended but damaging consequence of anti-immigrant rhetoric, and the policies it inspires, is that they … competition for global talent. We investigate this argument following the location choices of thousands of immigrant inventors … 1920s Immigration Acts. We find that co-ethnic networks play an important role in attracting immigrant inventors. However …
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Aliyah to Israel : Immigration Under Conditions of Adversity
Neuman, Shoshana - 2021
A snapshot at figures of immigration (Aliyah) to the Land of Israel (Palestine) and to the State of Israel reveals the following: between 1882-1947, in successive waves of immigration, some 543,000 Jews immigrated to Palestine, joining the 24,000 who lived there. During the first three years of...
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Social Networks and (Political) Assimilation in the Age of Mass Migration
Biavaschi, Costanza; Giulietti, Corrado; Zenou, Yves - 2021
This paper investigates the pathways through which immigrant communities (social networks) influence individual … immigrant in New York City in 1930, have on the probability of said immigrant becoming a U.S. citizen in 1940. Our results …
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Roads taken : the great Jewish migrations to the New World and the peddlers who forged the way
Diner, Hasia R. - 2015
Road warriors: the migration and the peddlers -- Road runners: Jewish peddlers in their new worlds -- Along the road: Jewish peddlers and their new-world customers -- Road rage: Jewish peddlers and the perils of the road -- The end of the road: life after peddling -- Legacies of the road: a...
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Immigrant entrepreneurship : the German-American experience since 1700
Berghoff, Hartmut (ed.); Spiekermann, Uwe (ed.) - 2016
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Homeward Bound : How Migrants Seek Out Familiar Climates
Obolensky, Marguerite; Tabellini, Marco; Taylor, Charles A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper introduces the concept of "climate matching" as a driver of migration and establishes several new results. First, we show that climate strongly predicts the spatial distribution of immigrants in the US, both historically (1880) and more recently (2015), whereby movers select...
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Homeward bound : how migrants seek out familiar climates
Obolensky, Marguerite; Tabellini, Marco; Taylor, Charles A. - 2024
This paper introduces the concept of "climate matching" as a driver of migration and establishes several new results. First, we show that climate strongly predicts the spatial distribution of immigrants in the US, both historically (1880) and more recently (2015), whereby movers select...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014454676
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Unternehmer - verkannte Elite? : von der Kleptokratie zur Meritokratie
Glöggler, Axel - 2009
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The press of labor migrants in Europe and North America 1880s to 1930s
Harzig, Christiane (ed.) - 1985
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