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This paper poses and answers a number of critical questions about the relationship between migration and …) Are immigrants really more entrepreneurial than natives? (ii) Are migrant remittances likely to fund entrepreneurship in … the answers, (iv) Does migration matter for development? We conclude that one must avoid seeing migrants as super …
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This article unravels the migrants' incidence of skill mismatch taking into consideration different migration flows … destination combinations, which allows for detailed analysis of different migration flows. This provides an innovative multi …
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This paper examines the wage and job satisfaction effects of over-education and overskilling among migrants graduating from EU-15 based universities in 2005. Female migrants with shorter durations of domicile were found to have a higher likelihood of overskilling. Newly arrived migrants incurred...
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work experience, particularly that of education-occupation mismatch prior to migration.We show that type of work experience …
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after about ten years after the peak of migration wave. …
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Migration is often viewed as an investment decision. Temporary migrants can be expected to invest less in accumulating …
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. However, migration also changes relative wages, alters the distribution of skills and affects equality in the receiving …
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Does increasing a state’s minimum wage induce migration into the state? Previous literature has shown mobility in …
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Motivations for migrants to return clearly change with integration, but the time-changing aspect of return migration … intermarriage and three outcomes related to migrants' home country preference - intentions to return, remittances sent and actual …
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This paper studies the respective influences of intergenerational transmission and the environment in shaping individual trust. Focusing on second generation immigrants in Australia and the United States, we exploit the variation in the home country and in the host country to separate the effect...
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