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population migrates. Given that individuals dislike low relative income, and that migration modifies the social space of the non …-migrants, we show why and how the non-migrants adjust their work effort and output in response to the migration-generated change in … their social space. When migration is negatively selective such that the least productive individual departs, the output of …
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During the last few decades cultural changes have been taking place in many countries due to migration. The degree to … culture will not survive over time. In the second case the local culture will survive. We show the conditions for assimilation … versus no assimilation between the groups. …
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During the last few decades cultural changes have been taking place in many countries due to migration. The degree to … culture will not survive over time. In the second case the local culture will survive. We show the conditions for assimilation … versus no assimilation between the groups. …
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proportions in EB-2 and EB-3 sent remittances than in the cohort overall. (6) A little measure of assimilation - using dollars to …
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There are two complementary models of immigrants' economic and social adjustment - the positive assimilation model of … Chiswick (1978, 1979), and the negative assimilation model of Chiswick and Miller (2011). The negative assimilation model is … market institutions to the host country, and has been tested previously primarily using migration among the English …
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The twentieth century United States provides a natural experiment to measure the strength and persistence of entrepreneurial cultures. Assuming immigrants bear the cultures of their birth place, comparison of revealed entrepreneurial propensities of US immigrant groups in 1910 and 2000 reflected...
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empirically documented und theoretically explained in a core model. Also, immigrant assimilation and selection is discussed, as is …
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in their effective hours of labor when they move to the United States; (iii) migration reduces inequality, more …
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coincided with the greatest waves of European migration (1880, 1910) in order to uncover the settlement patterns of migrants of … determined both the attractiveness of different US counties at the time of migration, as well as current levels of development … difference for long-term economic development whatsoever. This holds for the first and second wave of migration. Hence being …
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