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Immigrants are widely perceived to be highly entrepreneurial, contributing to economic growth and innovation, and self … successful than focusing on entrepreneurship. …
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Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This … is reflected in immigration policies and many developed countries have created special visas and entry requirements in an … attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship has …
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Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This … is reflected in immigration policies and many developed countries have created special visas and entry requirements in an … attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257678
Immigration is one of the most important policy debates in Western countries. However, one aspect of the debate is … often mischaracterized by accusations that higher levels of immigration lead to higher levels of crime. The evidence, based … on empirical studies of many countries, indicates that there is no simple link between immigration and crime, but …
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This paper documents the effect of immigrant concentration on natives’ work schedules. I show that immigrants are more likely to work at non‐standard hours (i.e. evenings, nights and Sundays) and that a higher proportion of immigrants in the local labor market is associated with a lower...
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Sweden has made its labour market more open for labour immigration since the mid1990s: becoming member of the common … immigration. The labour immigration expanded for example after the enlargement in 2004 but not so much as in for example the … United Kingdom and Ireland. Other forms of immigration have been more important. On the other hand, the migration has been …
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Using a recent survey of immigrants to France, we provide a detailed analysis of the educational attainment and labor market performance of various sub-population groups in France. Our results indicate that immigrants to France are less educated than the native born and that these differences...
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economy of immigration, and productivity/international trade. Extreme concerns about deleterious labour market and fiscal … effects of immigration in those nations. Four broad topics are addressed: labor market issues, fiscal questions, the political … practices regarding the selection and integration of new migrants affect labour market, fiscal and social/cultural outcomes …
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Belgian LFS Ad Hoc Module on the labour market situation of migrants and their immediate descendants, we compare the … employment outcomes of labour migrants (with and without a job prior to migration), family reunion migrants, student migrants and … refugees with those of the native-born. In line with previous studies, we establish that refugees and family reunion migrants …
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on a new and larger sample of about 2,600 adults from the German Socioeconomic Panel-Innovation Sample (SOEP-IS). We find …
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