We investigate the interplay of language skills and immigrant stocks in determining bilateral FDI out-stocks of OECD … immigrants on bilateral FDI - provided that residents of the two countries have few language skills in common. We find a similar … effect for immigrants from third countries that speak the language(s) of the FDI host country, making them potential …

We investigate the interplay of language skills and immigrant stocks in determining bilateral FDI out-stocks of OECD … immigrants on bilateral FDI – provided that residents of the two countries have few language skills in common. We find a similar … effect for immigrants from third countries that speak the language(s) of the FDI host country, making them potential …

step on Austria in three major fields foreign trade, FDI and labour market. Romania is a more backward country than those …. The recent huge investments of OMV and Erste Bank result in an Austrian FDI stock of about EUR 6 billion by the end of … 2006, some 10% of the Austrian outward FDI stock. This is a similar amount as invested in the Czech Republic or Hungary …

externality. This paper reviews the recent economic literature on diaspora networks and development from the perspective of the … global South. It is split into two parts: a first section reviews the effect of diaspora networks on trade, foreign … the diaspora, investigating on a macro-level the role of migration in cultural convergence across countries and on a micro …

This review article surveys the recent economic literature on diaspora networks, globalization, and development … global economy. I first review the effect of diaspora networks on core globalization outcomes such as trade, foreign … diaspora, investigating the impact of emigration on the formation of political attitudes, fertility behavior, and other aspects …

We investigate the interplay of language skills and immigrant stocks in determining bilateral FDI out-stocks of OECD … bilateral immigrants on bilateral FDI - provided that residents of the two countries have few language skills in common. We find … a similar effect for immigrants from third countries that speak the language(s) of the FDI host country, making them …

, surpassing the volume of FDI and official development assistance that the country receives. This study focuses primarily on the … different types of volatility; remittances are found to be a less volatile source of external finance than FDI and ODA that are … be acyclical and stabilizing, whereas FDI emerges as pro-cyclical and destabilizing. Furthermore, remittances are …

emerging economies. It documents the role of diaspora networks in enhancing cross-border flows of goods, capital, and knowledge …