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This paper analyzes the interaction between migrant networks and linguistic distance in the location choice of migrants … misst, in der Sprache des Einwanderungslandes zu kommunizieren, in der Ansiedlungsentscheidung von Migranten Substitute … ethnischen Netzwerks einen positiven Einfluss auf die Ansiedlungsentscheidung von Migranten hat, während die linguistische …
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This paper analyzes the interaction between migrant networks and linguistic distance in the location choice of migrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011764646
We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate substantially less than natives in the labor market. However, trading with a foreign country is expected to increase the demand for immigrants from that country. By hiring...
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The limitations of GDP as a measure of welfare are well known. We propose a new method of estimating the well-being of nations. Using gross bilateral international migration flows and a discrete choice model in which everyone in the world chooses a country in which to live, we estimate each...
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on the development of new technologies across U.S. cities with historical settlement patterns for migrants from countries …
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Personal characteristics of migrants could help to strengthen the impact of migrant networks on bilateral trade. While … tasks carried out by migrants. Our empirical results confirm that the existence of a large number of foreign-born workers …
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Environmentally induced conflicts can trigger migration. This paper analyzes the location decisions of migrants, i ….e., the "sorting" of migrants into alternative destinations. We argue that this sorting depends on a variety of factors. The … selection of migrants affects preferences over where to settle and depends on the underlying type of environmentally induced …
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The payoff to schooling among the foreign born in the US is only around one-half of the payoff for the native born. This paper examines whether this differential is related to the quality of the schooling immigrants acquired abroad. The paper uses the Over-education/ Required...
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destinations developed by Grogger and Hanson (2011) by allowing for unobserved individual heterogeneity between migrants and non-migrants …
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Studies regarding the migrants' impact upon performance variables and in particular upon productivity growth - which is … of the study the focus is on employment patterns of migrants regarding their shares in employment, the composition in … conducts a wide range of descriptive econometric' exercises analysing the relationship between migrants employment across …
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