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Return international migration and geographical inequality : the case of Egypt

McCormick, Barry; Wahba, Jackline - 2004

This paper explores entrepreneurship amongst return migrants, how their business locations and characteristics differ from other businesses, and the implications for rural-urban inequality. First, we examine, amongst returnees, the determinants of investment in a project/enterprise. Second, we...

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Economic shocks and internal migration

Monras, Joan - 2015

conclude that internal migration might help to alleviate up to one third of the effects of the crisis on wages in the most …

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Labor Market Transparency

Wadensjo, Eskil - 2013

The labor market differs from other markets in many respects. Most important is that those who supply labor also have to deliver it in person. It means firstly that the work environment and organization of work are important for those who deliver labor, since they are in the work place....

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European immigrants in the UK before and after the 2004 enlargement : is there a change in immigrant self-selection?

Longhi, Simonetta; Rokicka, Magdalena - 2012 - This version: 18 October 2012

The 2004 accession of Eastern European countries (EU8) to the European Union has generated concerns about the influx of low-skill immigrants to the Western member states (EU15). Only three countries, namely Ireland, Sweden, and the UK, did not impose restrictions to immigration from Eastern...

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Search Equilibrium with Migration : The Case of Poland

Budnik, Katarzyna Barbara - 2008

market. In particular, it focuses on the impact of the migration flows on wages. The wage equation derived from the search … implied elasticity of wages to reduction of the workforce due to emigration between 2003 and 2006 was in the range of 0 ….2-0.3. Mediocre response of wages to emigration corresponds well with earlier studies on the impact of emigration on the source …

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The Impact of International Migration on Inclusive Growth : A Review

Koczan, Zsoka; Peri, Giovanni; Pinat, Magali; Rozhkov, … - 2022

International migration is an important channel of material improvement for individuals and their offspring. The movement of people across country borders, especially from less developed to richer countries, has a substantial impact in several dimensions. First, it affects the migrants...

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Creating and Connecting US and China Science : Chinese Diaspora and Returnee Researchers

Xie, Qingnan; Freeman, Richard B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The close connection between US and China in scientific research and education in the 2000s produced a large group of China-born researchers who work in the US ("diaspora") and a larger group of China-born researchers who gained US-research experience and returned to do their research in China...

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