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Known knowns and known unknowns of immigrant self-employment: Selected issues
Nestorowicz, Joanna - 2011
The paper presents a review of selected definitional issues, theoretical concepts and most recent empirical evidence related to the phenomenon of immigrant self-employment. Based on the appraisal of gathered material it also points to possible areas of development of future research in the field.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011470849
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Demographic optimum in the context of migration : the German case
Pohoaţă, Ion; Crupenschi, Vladimir-Mihai; Căriman, … - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 19 (2017) 46, pp. 654-669
The study aims to test whether the unbalanced structure of indigenous workforce offer in developed economies, such as Germany, originates both in the structure of rewards associated with each type of job in accordance with the required education level and also in the algorithm of their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011793463
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Known knowns and known unknowns of immigrant self-employment : selected issues
Nestorowicz, Joanna - 2011 - Second version: March 23rd 2011
areas of development of future research in the field. -- migration ; self-employment ; ethnic entrepreneurship ; middleman …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008934638
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Population policies, demographic structural changes, and the Chinese household saving puzzle
Ge, Suqin; Yang, Dennis Tao; Zhang, Junsen - 2012
Using combined data from population censuses and Urban Household Surveys, we study the effects of demographic structural changes on the rise in household saving in China. Variations in fines across provinces on unauthorized births under the one-child policy and in cohort-specific fertility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009672255
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Population Policies, Demographic Structural Changes, and the Chinese Household Saving Puzzle
Ge, Suqin - 2012
Using combined data from population censuses and Urban Household Surveys, we study the effects of demographic structural changes on the rise in household saving in China. Variations in fines across provinces on unauthorized births under the one-child policy and in cohort-specific fertility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096769
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The Effects of Relaxing the One-Child Policy
Jia, Ning; Lugauer, Steven; Ni, Jinlan; Yin, Zhichao - 2021
This paper examines the early effects of dismantling the one-child (fertility) policy, which China relaxed in 2013 and eliminated prior to 2017. Birth rates, female labor force participation, and saving behavior have already changed. Between 2015 and 2017, the proportion of households with...
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The Determination of a Migration Wave Using Ethnicity and Community Ties
Locher, Lilo - 2001
If people come to live in a country different from their nation state, due to border shifts, expulsion, or migration …, they adopt some of the new country?s habits after some time. This paper investigates their (return) migration decision when …. Looking at ethnic German migration in the 1990s, we compare basic features of the migration wave with assumptions of the model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262554
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Migration-regime liberalization and social security : political-economy effect
Razîn, Assaf; Sand, Edith - 2009
an incentive to liberalize migration policy. The paper examines a political- economy, inter-generational, mechanism … demonstrate that the Markov equilibrium, with social security, consists of more liberal migration policies, than the corresponding …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276303
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Migration-regime liberalization and social security : political-economy effect
Razin, Asaf; Sand, Edith - 2009
an incentive to liberalize migration policy. The paper examines a political- economy, inter-generational, mechanism … demonstrate that the Markov equilibrium, with social security, consists of more liberal migration policies, than the corresponding …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850506
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On the determinants of global bilateral migration flows
Crespo Cuaresma, Jesús; Moser, Mathias; Raggl, Anna - 2013
We present a method aimed at estimating global bilateral migration flows and assessing their determinants. We employ … that fact that available net migration figures for a country are (nonlinear) aggregates of migration flows from and to all … other countries of the world in order to construct a statistical model that links the determinants of (unobserved) migration …
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