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The impact of worker effort on public sentiment towards temporary migrants

Epstein, Gil S.; Venturini, Alessandra - 2011

Temporary and circular migration programs have been devised by many destination countries and supported by the European … additional reason for proposing temporary migration policies based on the characteristics of the foreign labor-effort supply. The … when temporary migration policies are adopted. -- Migration ; Exertion of effort ; Contracted Temporary Migration …

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Migration and culture

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2010

Culture is not new to the study of migration. It has lurked beneath the surface for some time, occasionally protruding … how culture manifests itself in the migration process for three groups of actors: the migrants, those remaining in the … migration as an economic phenomenon; but what about them matters? Properly, we should be looking at the determinants of identity …

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Remittances and inequality : a dynamic migration model

Docquier, Frédéric (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Brain drain and LDCs' growth : winners and losers

Beine, Michel (contributor); … - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Immigration, fertility and human capital : a model of economic decline of the West

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2010

I show how the influences of unskilled immigration, differential fertility between immigrants and the local indigenous population, and incentives for investment in human capital combine to predict the decline of the West. In particular, indigenous low-skilled workers lose from unskilled...

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A political economy of the immigrant assimilation : internal dynamics

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2010

Within immigrant society different groups wish to help the migrants in different ways – immigrant societies are multi-layered and multi-dimensional. We examine the situation where there exists a foundation that has resources and that wishes to help the migrants. To do so they need migrant...

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Ethnosizing immigrants : a theoretical framework

Epstein, Gil S.; Heizler, Odelia - 2014

called the "ethnosizer". Using information on an individual's language, culture, social interactions, history of migration …

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Multi-generation model of immigrant earnings : theory and application

Epstein, Gil S. (contributor); … - 2001 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Interactions between local and migrant workers at the workplace

Epstein, Gil S.; Mealem, Yosef - 2010

In this paper we consider the interaction between local workers and migrants in the production process of a firm. Both local workers and migrants can invest effort in assimilation activities in order to increase the assimilation of the migrants into the firm and so by increase their interaction...

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Male vs. female guest-worker migration : does it matter for fertility in the source country?

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2011

of men's additional income. -- Guest-worker migration ; Gender ; Fertility …

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