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Crime and immigration : do poor labor market opportunities lead to migrant crime?

Bell, Brian - 2014

Immigration is one of the most important policy debates in Western countries. However, one aspect of the debate is often mischaracterized by accusations that higher levels of immigration lead to higher levels of crime. The evidence, based on empirical studies of many countries, indicates that...

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Determinants of participation in manufacturing GVCs in Africa : the role of skills, human capital endowment and migration

Yaméogo, Nadège Désirée; Jammeh, Kebba - 2019

This analysis assesses the role of skills, human capital endowment, and migration as determinants of Sub-Saharan Africa …

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Through which channels can remittances spur economic growth in MENA countries?

Mim, Sami Ben; Ali, Mohamed Sami Ben - 2012

This paper studies the remittances' effect on economic growth. Using panel data techniques, the authors estimate several specifications to provide support of such relationship for MENA countries over the period 19802009. The findings provide new robust evidence on how remittances are used in...

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Immigration and structural change : evidence from post-war Germany

Braun, Sebastian; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2012

Does immigration accelerate sectoral change towards high-productivity sectors? This paper uses the mass displacement of ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe to West Germany after World War II as a natural experiment to study this question. A simple two-sector model of the economy, in which moving...

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The costs of Babylon : linguistic distance in applied economics

Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Otten, Sebastian - 2012

economic transactions such as migration or international trade flows by imposing hurdles for second language acquisition and …

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Do immigrant workers depress the wages of native workers? : short-term wage effects of immigrants are close to zero : and in the long term immigrants can boost productivity and wag...

Peri, Giovanni - 2014

Politicians, the media, and the public express concern that immigrants depress wages by competing with native workers, but 30 years of empirical research provide little supporting evidence to this claim. Most studies for industrialized countries have found no effect on wages, on average, and...

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Happiness and the emigration decision : happy people are an asset to society, and happiness may be a determinant of emigration

Ivlevs, Artjoms - 2014

Happy people are healthier and more creative, productive, and sociable. Because of these positive effects of happiness, it is in the interest of countries to attract and retain happy people. With respect to the decision to migrate, the central question becomes whether people who are happier and...

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Source country characteristics and immigrants’ optimal migration duration decision

Kırdar, Murat G. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-21

This paper examines how immigrants’ optimal migration duration in the host country responds to the purchasing power … parity (ppp) and relative wages between the host and source countries. A theoretical model of joint migration duration and … saving decisions reveals that the optimal migration duration decreases in ppp unless the elasticity of intertemporal …

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Self-selection patterns among return migrants : Mexico 1990-2010

Campos Vázquez, Raymundo M.; Lara, Jaime - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-18

This paper analyzes the self-selection patterns among Mexican return migrants during the period 1990–2010. To calculate the selection patterns, we nonparametrically estimate the counterfactual wages that the return migrants would have experienced had they never migrated by using the wage...

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Heterogeneous technology diffusion and Ricardian trade patterns

Kerr, William R. - 2013

This study tests the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The empirical analysis has three comparative advantages: including emerging and advanced economies, isolating panel variation regarding the link between productivity and exports, and exploiting...

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