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Culture, selection, and international migration : conference paper

Krieger, Tim; Renner, Laura; Ruhose, Jens - 2014 - Preliminary

This paper looks at the e ffect of cultural barriers on the skill selection of international migration. The data covers bilateral migration stocks by skill level in 2000 from about 99 sending countries to the main 15 destination countries. We use genetic distance as a proxy for cultural distance...

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Immigrant inventors and diversity in the age of mass migration

Campo, Francesco; Mendola, Mariapia; Morrison, Andrea; … - 2020

A possible unintended but damaging consequence of anti-immigrant rhetoric, and the policies it inspires, is that they may put high-skilled immigrants off more than low-skilled ones at times when countries and businesses intensify their competition for global talent. We investigate this argument...

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Diaspora externalities : a view from the South

Rapoport, Hillel - 2018

Migration decisions affect those left-behind in ways that are partly taken into account by market forces (e.g., wage effects on labour markets) and for the most part these can be seen as pure externalities. Diasporas are an example of such an externality. This paper reviews the recent economic...

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Self-employment and migration

Giambra, Samuele; McKenzie, David J. - 2019

There is a widespread policy view that a lack of job opportunities at home is a key reason for migration, accompanied by suggestions of the need to spend more on creating these opportunities so as to reduce migration. Self-employment is widespread in poor countries, and faced with a lack of...

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The healthy immigrant paradox and health convergence

Constant, Amelie - 2017

The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental dimensions of any country. Yet it is often the missing statistic in all general statistics, demographics, and presentations about the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper...

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Do emigrants self-select along cultural traits? : evidence from the MENA Countries

Docquier, Frédéric; Tansel, Aysıt; Turati, Riccardo - 2017

This paper empirically investigates whether emigrants from MENA countries self-select on cultural traits such as religiosity and gender-egalitarian attitudes. To do so, we use Gallup World Poll data on individual opinions and beliefs, migration aspirations, short-run migration plans, and...

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Do emigrants self-select along cultural traits? : evidence from the MENA countries

Docquier, Frédéric; Tansel, Aysıt; Turati, Riccardo - 2017

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What active labour market programmes work for immigrants in Europe? : A meta-analysis of the evaluation literature

Butschek, Sebastian; Walter, Thomas - 2013

A growing body of programme evaluation literature recognises immigrants as a disadvantaged group on European labour markets and investigates the employment effects of Active Labour Market Pro-grammes (ALMPs) on this subgroup. Using a meta-analysis, we condense 93 estimates from 33 empir-ical...

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The labor market impact of undocumented immigrants : job creation vs. job competition

Albert, Christoph - 2017

This paper explores the impact of undocumented as opposed to documented immigration in a model featuring search frictions and non-random hiring that is consistent with novel empirical evidence presented. In this framework, undocumented immigrants' wages are the lowest of all workers due to their...

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Natives and migrants in home production : the case of Germany

Forlani, Emanuele; Lodigiani, Elisabetta; Mendolicchio, … - 2016

in Deutschland untersuchen. Dazu wurden Individualdaten des Sozio-Ökonomischen Panels (SOEP) mit weiteren Daten bezüglich …, dass eine Erhöhung des Frauenanteils unter Migranten auf der lokalen Ebene dazu führt, dass einheimische Frauen länger … mit einem mittleren Bildungsniveau, und unter ihnen insbesondere für jüngere Frauen unter 35 Jahren am stärksten. Die …

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