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In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call "the...
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In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call "the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010372494
Migration and trade are often linked through ethnic networks boosting bilateral trade. This study uses migration to quantify the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The framework provides the first panel estimates connecting country-industry productivity and...
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data and exploit exogenous variation in both immigration flows and diversity induced by former settlements, WWI and the … 1920s Immigration Acts. We find that co-ethnic networks play an important role in attracting immigrant inventors. However … become major receivers of migrant flows and, in a long-term perspective, have started thinking about immigration in terms of …
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We study whether, when, and how better connectivity through nonstop flights leads to positive innovation outcomes for … characteristics of firms and firm locations that are salient to the relation between nonstop flights and innovation outcomes across … countries. Using a gravity model, we posit and find that the positive effect of nonstop flights on innovation is stronger for …
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We examine a little-known restriction on high-skill immigration to the United States, the Exchange Visitor Skills List …
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The number of immigrants across the world has doubled since 1980. The estimates of the impact of immigration on wages …
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Attracting skilled immigrants is emerging as an important policy goal for immigrant receiving countries. This article first discusses the economic rationale for immigrant selection. Selection mechanisms of receiving countries are reviewed in the context of deteriorating labor market outcomes for...
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immigration. …
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