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Immigration, Human Capital Formation and Endogenous Economic Growth

Ehrlich, Isaac - 2016

composition of migrants in major destination countries, including the US, has been rising over the last four decades. Moreover …, the population share of skilled migrants has been approaching or exceeding that of skilled natives. We offer theoretical …

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Birthplace Diversity and Economic Prosperity

Alesina, Alberto - 2013

We use recent immigration data from 195 countries and propose an index of population diversity based on people's birthplaces. This new index is then decomposed into a size (share of foreign born) and a variety (diversity of immigrants) component and is available for 1990 and 2000 disaggregated...

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Isolating the Network Effect of Immigrants on Trade

Aleksynska, Mariya - 2012

stock of migrants, the share of migrants employed in managerial/business-related occupations has a strong additional effect … those contributing to export by the largest margin. Business network effects seem particularly important in stimulating …

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How Do Immigrants Promote Exports? Networks, Knowledge, Diversity

Orefice, Gianluca; Rapoport, Hillel; Santoni, Gianluca - 2022

How do immigrants promote exports? To answer this question we propose a unified empirical framework allowing to identify and disentangle the main mechanisms put forth in the literature: the role of networks in reducing bilateral transaction costs, and the productivity shifts arising from...

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Immigrant Entrepreneurs, Diasporas and Exports

Bratti, Massimiliano - 2018

) through which immigrants generate increased export flows from the regions in which they settle to their countries of origin … relationship going from diasporas and immigrant entrepreneurs towards export flows. Both the size of the diaspora and the number of …'s overall competitiveness and export flows towards all potential destinations …

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Regional Differences in Intersectoral Linkages and Diverse Patterns of Structural Transformation

Paul, Saumik; Raju, Dhushyanth - 2022

Intersectoral linkages can act as shock propagation channels and shape the pattern of structural transformation. To our knowledge, no research has examined how subnational differences in intersectoral linkages impact such spillover effects. We hypothesize that regional differences in local...

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The Labour Market Position of Turkish Immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands : Reason for Migration, Naturalisation and Language Proficiency

Euwals, Rob; Dagevos, Jaco; Gijsberts, Mérove; … - 2007

of labour migrants and their partners. The improvement is largely due to an improvement in educational attainment and …

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Immigration, Integration and the Labour Market : Turkish Immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands

Euwals, Rob; Dagevos, Jaco; Gijsberts, Mérove; … - 2007

On the basis of three micro datasets, the German Socio-Economic Panel 2002, the Dutch Social Position and Use of Provision Survey 2002 and the Dutch Labour Force Survey 2002, we investigate the labour market position of Turkish immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands. We compare labour market...

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Earnings and Occupational Attainment : Immigrants and the Native Born

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2010

This paper examines the determinants of occupational attainment and the impact of occupation on earnings. Results for both the native born and foreign born are presented, and these provide insights as to the earnings penalties associated with the less-than-perfect international transferability...

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Gender Discrimination and the Sex Ratio of Immigrants

Lach, Saul; Sicherman, Nachum - 2022

We use data on international migration to study the causal effect of gender discrimination on the sex-ratio of immigrants to the U.S. during the 1970-2019 period. We measure gender discrimination in the countries of origin using the Women, Business, and the Law (WBL) index, which measures legal...

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