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Human capital investment under exit options : evidence from a natural quasi-experiment
Chand, Satish; Clemens, Michael A. - 2019
Theory suggests that groups historically subject to discrimination, such as Jews, could exhibit traditionally high investment in education because discrimination spurred exit facilitated by human capital. Theory moreover suggests that if exit is uncertain, it could induce investment in skill...
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The labour market effect of immigration : accounting for effective immigrant work experience in New Zealand
Tse, Michael M. H.; Maani, Sholeh A. - 2016
This guide, updated for the 2016-17 job market season, describes the U.S. academic market for new Ph.D. economists and offers advice on conducting an academic job search. It provides data, reports findings from published papers, describes practical details, and includes links to online...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011595162
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How do native and migrant workers contribute to innovation? : a study on France, Germany and the UK
Fassio, Claudio; Montobbio, Fabio; Venturini, Alessandra - 2015
accordingly. Our results show that highly-educated migrants have a positive effect on innovation even if the effect is smaller … different components of the labour force on innovation at the sectoral level between 1994 and 2005. The authors focus, in … determinants of innovation, such as R&D investments, stock of patents and openness to trade. To address possible endogeneity of …
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The Costs of Babylon – Linguistic Distance in Applied Economics
Isphording, Ingo E.; Otten, Sebastian - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2012
Linguistic distance, i.e. the dissimilarity between languages, is an important factor influencing international economic transactions such as migration or international trade flows by imposing hurdles for second language acquisition and increasing transaction costs. To measure these costs, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010556738
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The Costs of Babylon – Linguistic Distance in Applied Economics
Isphording, Ingo E.; Otten, Sebastian - 2012
Linguistic distance, i.e. the dissimilarity between languages, is an important factor influencing international economic transactions such as migration or international trade flows by imposing hurdles for second language acquisition and increasing transaction costs. To measure these costs, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287350
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The economics of Canadian immigration levels
Doyle, Matthew; Skuterud, Mikal; Worswick, Christopher - 2023 - First draft: June 2023
In the hope of addressing chronic labour shortages and sluggish economic growth, the Canadian government plans to increase immigration in the coming years to per capita levels not reached since the 1920s. We argue that economic immigration in the Canadian context should aim to boost GDP per...
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On immigration and native entrepreneurship
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Jaeger, David A.; McHenry, Peter - 2021
We present a novel theory that immigrants facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by being willing and able to … observationally equivalent natives. Areas with large numbers of immigrants may therefore lead to more entrepreneurship and innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012486484
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On immigration and native entrepreneurship
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Jaeger, David A.; McHenry, Peter - 2021
observationally equivalent natives. Areas with large numbers of im-migrants may therefore lead to more entrepreneurship and innovation …We present a novel theory that immigrants facilitate innovation and entrepreneur-ship by being willing and able to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012516448
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High Unemployment in Germany: Why do Foreigners Suffer Most?
Geis, Wido - 2010
In Germany, immigrant unemployment is not only higher than native unemployment; italso reacts more to changes in the situation on the labor market. Decomposing the gapbetween native and immigrant unemployment into a baseline and a labor-marketsituation component, I find that the unemployment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312169
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Foreign and native-born STEM graduates and innovation intensity in the United States
Winters, John V. - 2014
native and foreign STEM graduates have statistically significant and economically large effects on innovation. Together these … results suggest that policies that increase the stocks of both foreign and native STEM graduates increase innovation and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010418916