Search Results - subject:"ETHNIC NETWORKS"

Networks and selection in international migration to Spain

Neubecker, Nina; Smolka, Marcel; Steinbacher, Anne - 2012

This paper analyzes the role of ethnic communities in shaping the recent immigration boom to Spain. We find that ethnic communities exerted a strong positive effect on the scale and a strong negative effect on the skill structure of this immigration. Unlike previous studies, we explicitly...

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Ethnic Networks and the Location Choice of Migrants in Europe

Nowotny, Klaus; Pennerstorfer, Dieter - Österreichisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (WIFO) - 2011

In this paper we analyse the role of ethnic networks in the location decision of migrants to the EU 15 at the regional … level. Using a random parameters logit specification we find a substantially positive effect of ethnic networks on the … spillovers in the effect of ethnic networks: ethnic networks in neighbouring regions significantly help to explain migrants …

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The International Evolution of Italian and Chinese Districts: What Role for Lead Firms?

Giansoldati, Marco; Pauluzzo, Rubens - In: Transition Studies Review 18 (2011) 2, pp. 471-486

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The Pro-Trade Effect of Immigration on American Exports During the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

Dunlevy, James A.; Hutchinson, William K. - 2001

The belief that immigrants generate beneficial externalities in their host countries, specifically in the form of an increased opportunity and ability of firms to expand their foreign trade, has recently been challenged by George Borjas in Heaven?s Door (1999, p. 97) as having no empirical...

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The pro-trade effect of immigration on American exports during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

Dunlevy, James A.; Hutchinson, William Kenneth - 2001

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Cross-Nativity Marriages, Gender, and Human Capital Levels of Children

Furtado, Delia - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2007

capital production within the household or from increased participation in ethnic networks, it does appear that immigrant …

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Migrants, Ethnicity and Strategic Assimilation

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N - Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick - 2006

Ethnic networks are a way of overcoming informal barriers to trade such as information costs, risk, and uncertainty by …

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Ethnic Networks and U.S. Exports

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Coughlin, Cletus C.; Wall, Howard J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper provides new estimates of the effects of ethnic network on U.S. exports. In line with recent research, our dataset is a panel of exports from U.S. states to 29 foreign countries. Our analysis departs from the literature in two ways, both of which show that previous estimates of the...

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The Pro-Trade Effect of Immigration on American Exports During the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

Dunlevy, James A.; Hutchinson, William K. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703011

Ethnic Networks and Trade: Intensive vs. Extensive Margins

Coughlin, Cletus C.; Wall, Howard J. - Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and …

Ethnic networks—as proxies for information networks—have been associated with higher levels of international trade … present paper does so using a model with fixed effects, finding that ethnic networks increase trade on the intensive margin …

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