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Uncertainty and Immigrant Entrepreneurship : Evidence From Brexit

Acosta, Camilo; Marinoni, Astrid - 2023

Immigrant entrepreneurs are a major driver of economic growth, and their decisions about where to locate can greatly … referendum to investigate the relationship between immigration uncertainty and the entry of immigrant-founded ventures of … different quality. We propose a model of immigrant entrepreneurial entry and introduce a new measure of venture quality at …

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Drivers of Change or Cut-Throat Competitors? Challenging Cultures of Innovation of Chinese and Nigerian Migrant Entrepreneurs in West Africa

Kohnert, Dirk - 2010

The remarkable influx of Chinese migrant entrepreneurs in different West African countries in recent years has been met with growing resistance by established local entrepreneurs. Whether the former have a competitive edge over the latter because of distinctive socio-cultural traits, or whether...

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Why go to France or Germany, if you could as well go to the UK or the US? : selective features of immigration to four major OECD countries

Geis, Wido (contributor); Uebelmesser, Silke (contributor); … - 2008

Building on a new data set which is combined from national micro-data bases, we highlight differences in the structure of migrants to four countries, viz. France, Germany, the UK and the US, which receive a substantial share of all immigrants to the OECD world. Looking at immigrants by source...

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Immigrants and the U.S. wage distribution

Yasenov, Vasil I. - 2020

A large body of literature estimates the relative wage impacts of immigration on low- and high-skill natives, but it is unclear how these effects map onto changes of the wage distribution. I document the movement of foreign-born workers in the U.S. wage distribution, showing that, since 1980,...

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Green cards and the location choices of immigrants in the United States, 1971 - 2000

Jaeger, David A. (contributor) - 2006

This paper documents where immigrants who enter the U.S. with different types of visas ("green cards") choose to live initially and what determines those location choices. Using population data on immigrants from the Immigration and Naturalization Service from 1971 to 2000, matched to data on...

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Immigrant-native differences in welfare participation : the role of entry and exit rates

Hansen, Jörgen (contributor); Lofstrom, Magnus (contributor) - 2006

, country of birth, and time of arrival in Sweden among other things, and provides an excellent opportunity to examine immigrant …-native differences in welfare use. The empirical results suggest that the main reason for the large immigrant-native welfare gap observed … successful in reducing welfare use in general and the immigrant-native welfare gap in particular. -- welfare ; immigration …

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How much does immigration boost innovation?

Hunt, Jennifer (contributor); … - 2009

in science and engineering. These data imply that a one percentage point rise in the share of immigrant college graduates … in the population increases patents per capita by 6%. This could be an overestimate of immigration's benefit if immigrant …-18% in response to a one percentage point increase in immigrant college graduates. We isolate the causal effect by …

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The economic diversity of immigration across the United States

Friedberg, Rachel M.; Jaeger, David A. - 2009

immigration, the presence of immigrant children in schools, and the effect of immigration on the age, sex, language, and … educational composition of the local population and workforce. -- Immigration ; local labor markets ; immigrant children …

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The effects of school quality in the origin on the payoff to schooling for immigrants

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2010

quality on the immigrant selection process, rather than the quality of immigrants’ schooling per se, that is the major driver …

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The human capital (schooling) of immigrants in America

Smith, James P. - 2012

diversity in the schooling accomplishments among different immigrant sub-groups and between legal and undocumented migrants. I …

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