Locals Collection

Embedded Brokerage : Hubs versus Locals

Returnees versus Locals: Who Perform Better in China’s Technology Entrepreneurship?

We examine performance differences between new ventures led by returnees and those led by their local counterparts in China. We argue that while, compared with locals, returnees have the advantages of higher education and overseas experience, they also have disadvantages in their home country in terms of lack of both local connections and local knowledge. Since returnees’ effect on venture perf...

Wage differentials between foreigners and locals - discrimination or unobserved skills ?

This paper analyzes a regulated trans-border labor market segmented by skills in the Canton of Ticino (Switzerland). Swiss regulation distinguishes two types of foreign labor force, i.e. trans-border commuters with de facto free access and immigrant workers regulated by quota. While wages are generally observed to be lower for trans-border commuters than for locals, immigrant workers accomplish...

Foreign nurses 'trickle in' - eight times slower than locals leaving.

Only 78 foreign-qualified nurses were registered to practise in South Africa last year, mainly because of poor compliance with application requirements and an inability by war-torn/ dysfunctional African governments to verify professional qualifications. These were among the reasons provided by Linda Hlaisi, manager of the South African Nursing Council's (SANC) Foreign Workforce section, for th...

The meaning of place: attachments to Femundsmarka National Park, Norway, among tourists and locals

In Norway, the management of natural and cultural resources is subject to increasing public scrutiny. Con icts are escalating over many issues concerning the balance between preservation and utilisation . Traditionally con icts over issues like growth in commercial nature tourism, predator control, forest policies, protected areas management, cultural heritage protection , and rights associat...