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question. This comparative exploratory study of Chinese and Nigerian entrepreneurial migrants in Ghana and Benin provides … the innovative culture of Chinese entrepreneurial migrants versus that of African entrepreneurial migrants. Instead, there … Innovationskultur chinesischer und nigerianischer Migranten: Dem bemerkenswerten Zustrom chinesischer Unternehmer in Westafrika begegnen …
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assess the impact on regional labour markets. Our results confirm that wages and unemployment are by far the most important …
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The analysis of how the economic crisis in Europe has reshaped migration flows faces two challenges: (i) the confounding influence of correlated changes in the attractiveness of alternative destinations, and (ii) the role of rapidly changing expectations about the evolution of the economic...
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The current literature that investigates the selection of Mexican migrants to the United States focuses on selectivity … migrants based on their pre-migration occupational history, and compare them to the skills of Mexicans who do not migrate … Family Life Survey, our analysis consistently shows that migrants have lower cognitive and higher manual skills than non-migrants …
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This paper investigates the role of family ties for international return migration decisions. The presence of children in the household affects return propensities of couples in different ways. Results suggest that schooling considerations as well as factors related to cultural identity play a...
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-setting framework relies on the assumption that wages tend to decline with rising unemployment, albeit imperfectly. This enables us to … wages by about 0.3 percent and reduces their unemployment rate by 0.1 percent, while the wages of the foreign workforce …
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Optimal integration policies should take the language skills of arriving migrants into account. However, little is … two factors: By positive economic conditions, indicating that migrants who leave amidst economic turmoil may arrive with … worse language skills. And by linguistic distance, indicating that migrants react to distance by increasing learning effort …
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Immigration is a major challenge and opportunity for rich Western countries. Integration of immigrants is a two-way process, the success of which depends both on immigrants and on natives. We provide new evidence on the determinants of individual attitudes towards immigration, using data from...
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