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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
’ home countries affect entrepreneurship. We find that children of immigrants from more risk-loving cultures are more likely …This paper investigates impact of cultural origin on entrepreneurship. Using Swedish registry data on second …-generation immigrants and risk appetite measures from the Global Preference Survey (GPS), we investigate whether risk preferences in parents …
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International migration of people is a momentous and complex phenomenon. Research on its causes and consequences, requires sufficient data. While some datasets are available, the nature of migration complicates their scientific use. Virtually no existing dataset captures international migration...
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. This paper examines whether this differential is related to the quality of the schooling immigrants acquired abroad. The … is associated with a higher payoff to schooling among immigrants in the US labor market. This higher payoff is associated … quality on the immigrant selection process, rather than the quality of immigrants' schooling per se, that is the major driver …
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In this paper, we examine possible types of network formation among immigrants in the diaspora and between those … immigrants and the locals in different countries. We present the model by considering different possible interactions between … immigrants and the new society in their host country. Spread of migrants from the same origin in the diaspora may well increase …
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between FDI and entrepreneurship; positive spillovers via dissemination of technology or negative because of crowding out. Our … entrepreneurship in aggregate and intra‐industry to be negative. Policies need to consider how to counteract this effect. …
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: the entrepreneurship rate and the fraction of small firms fall with per capita income across countries, while average firm …'s potential payoffs in working and in entrepreneurship. If some firms consistently benefit more from technological progress than …
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