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Economic impact of STEM immigrant workers
Baum, Christopher F.; Lööf, Hans; Stephan, Andreas - 2018
STEM-focused industries are critical to the innovation-driven economy. As many firms are running short of STEM workers, international immigrants are increasingly recognized as a potential for high-tech job recruitment. This paper studies STEM occupations in Sweden 2011–2015 and tests...
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Anti-Migration as a Threat to Internationalization? A Review of the Migration-Internationalization Literature
Hatzigeorgiou, Andreas; Lodefalk, Magnus - 2018
Does anti-migration sentiment threaten internationalization? One major pro-Brexit argument was that it would enable … more control over immigration. The most recent US presidential election also focused on immigration. Anti-migration … migration-trade nexus, there are few examples of policymakers highlighting the role of migration for internationalization. One …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011939975
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The Belt and Road Initiative. Demographic trends, labour markets and welfare systems of member countries
Bruni, Michele - 2019
migration flows in the amount and with the educational stricture coherent with their needs. However, such a process is extremely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011954398
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Trends in Immigration and Economic Consequences
Coppel, Jonathan; Dumont, Jean-Christophe; Visco, Ignazio - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2001
This paper reviews immigration trends and their economic impacts in a number of OECD countries. While migration systems … migration flows. Some of the main factors driving immigration are then briefly discussed. The paper also considers the economic … claims that, while migration can partly offset slower growing or declining OECD populations, it cannot provide by itself a …
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Naturalization and labor market performance of immigrants in Germany
Riphahn, Regina T.; Saif, Salwan - 2018
Naturalization may be a relevant policy instrument affecting immigrant integration in host-country labor markets. We study the effect of naturalization on labor market outcomes of immigrants in Germany. We apply recent survey data and exploit a reform of naturalization rules in an instrumental...
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Self-employment and geographical mobility in Germany
Reuschke, Darja - 2011
Little is known about the individual location behaviour of self-employed entrepreneurs. This paper investigates the geographical mobility behaviour of self-employed entrepreneurs, as compared to employees, thereby shedding new light onto the place embeddedness of self-employment. It examines...
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Testing the "residential rootedness"-hypothesis of self-employment for Germany and the UK
Reuschke, Darja; Ham, Maarten van - 2011
exit from selfemployment are associated with internal migration. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009389123
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Imperfect Mobility
Cai, Zhengyu - 2020
This study investigates why the strong form of the spatial equilibrium is weakly supported in the literature. Using a discrete choice model, it shows that the strong form of the spatial equilibrium is rarely observed because workers are imperfectly mobile from the perspective of researchers....
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Wage convergence and inequality after unification : (East) Germany in transition
Gernandt, Johannes; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2008
This paper investigates the wage convergence between East German workers and their West German counterparts after reunification. Our research is based on a comparison of three groups of workers defined as stayers, migrants and commuters to West Germany, who lived in East Germany in 1989, with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011632489
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Leben außerhalb Deutschlands : eine Machbarkeitsstudie zur Realisierung von Auslandsbefragungen auf Basis des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP)
Schupp, Jürgen; Siegel, Nico A.; Erlinghagen, Marcel; … - 2008
A feasibility study concerning the implementation of interviews abroad within the framework of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). With the pilot study "Living outside Germany", the longitudinal German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) ventures into completely uncharted methodological...
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