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This article studies the impact of immigration restriction policies on technology adoption in sending countries. From 1920 to 1921, the number of Italian immigrants to the United States dropped by 85% after Congress passed the Emergency Quota Act, a severely restrictive immigration law. In a...
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This article studies the impact of immigration restriction policies on technology adoption in sending countries. From 1920 to 1921, the number of Italian immigrants to the United States dropped by 85% after Congress passed the Emergency Quota Act, a severely restrictive immigration law. In a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013323080
This paper analyzes the oversea emigration of German passengers via the port of Bremen in the period of theWeimar …
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This paper examines the effects of emigration on human capital accumulation at origin throughout a century. I focus on … the mass emigration from Galicia (Spain) to Latin America (1900-1930), one of the largest emigration episodes at the time … sources and exploit variation in pioneering emigration and a pull factor for identification. I find that while emigration …
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This paper investigates the sources of information and their quality as accessible to the government of the Federal Republic of Germany when trying to assess the situation of company funded pensions between 1949 and 1985 for the Company Pension Act of 1974. By taking a closer look at multiple...
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New technologies have not always been greeted with full enthusiasm. Although the Ottomans were quick to adopt advancements in military technology, they waited almost three centuries to sanction printing in Ottoman Turkish (in Arabic characters). Printing spread relatively rapidly throughout...
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Slow onset climate change has the potential to cause significant migration flows. Scientists have recently made considerable efforts to quantify these flows based on empirical methods. However, the literature on international migration has failed to come to a clear conclusion as many studies...
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Many governments seek to reduce emigration from low-income countries by encouraging economic development there. A large … literature, however, observes that average emigration rates are higher in countries with sustained increases in GDP per capita … than in either chronically poor countries or established rich countries. This suggests an emigration life cycle in which …
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This study investigates the effect of high-skilled inventor emigration rate on growth rate of the country of origin … positive and statistically significant effect exists for the interaction of inventor emigration and trade. The result indicates …
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Comparing the emigration rates of countries at different stages of economic development, an inverse u-shape emerges … association between income and emigration. This result is independent of the level of income a country starts out at and thus …
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