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evaluations of the impact of skilled emigration on the labour market and economic development of the country impeded the … the emigration and skilled emigration, in particular is relatively new event for the country. Because of this most of the … existing studies in this area are concentrated mainly on the intentions for emigration. Bearing in mind that the intentions for …
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-scale outflows. While some have argued that the low level of development was partly a consequence of emigration, other work has shown … that emigration helped to improve Irish living standards. I end with the observation that the research agenda is now …
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Using uncertainty about the future returns to migration, the option value theory of migration can explain low migration rates in spite of huge wage differences. This paper presents the theory in a simple two-period framework and uses ethnic Germans in the CIS to find empirical support for it....
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We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly...
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We study the economic impact of becoming a taxi driver. Comparing individuals who pass the necessary written exams for a taxi driver's license to individuals who have not yet done so, we find that both immigrants and natives who enter into taxi driving have experienced negative employment...
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This paper analyzes the changing characteristics of Chinese immigrants to Canada between 1980 and 2001. It reveals that recent Chinese immigrants to Canada constitute a substantially different group from those of former years. They are no longer a homogeneous group from the rural areas of...
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frequently cited barriers inhibiting their integration into the Vancouver social and economic spheres. Their poor economic … hindered integration and increased dissatisfaction with their lives in Canada. Given the logic of our posited triangular … migration model we argue that this dissatisfaction will encourage Chinese emigration from Vancouver …
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We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870290
Polish migrants have been bringing norms, values, practices and social capital to their communities of origin since the end of the nineteenth century. This paper sheds light on the unintended consequences of temporary migration from Poland by combining Merton’s functional analysis with...
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The importance of the flow of workers’ remittances in the economies of developing countries during the last few decades or so cannot be ignored at the face changing global order where most of the economies in the world are transforming themselves to the call of globalization and transmuting...
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