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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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Occupational choice of return migrants : migrant-sending countries can significantly benefit from the type of occupation chosen by return migrants
Piracha, Matloob - 2015
The occupational choice of return migrants is important to their home country. Return migrants are likely to have acquired human capital while abroad, either through formal training or by working in a more efficient labor market. The employment of these newly acquired skills in the home country...
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Migration in Ireland : challenges, opportunities and policies
González Pandiella, Alberto - 2016
The Irish labour market is exceptionally open to international migration flows, thus making labour supply highly responsive to changes in cyclical conditions. Immigration provides the skills that the Irish economy needs. The crisis triggered a sharp reversal in migration flows, with immigration...
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Crossing the border: Self-selection, earnings and individual migration decisions
Bertoli, S.; Fernández-Huertas Moraga, J.; Ortega, F. - In: Journal of Development Economics 101 (2013) C, pp. 75-91
. Specifically, we produce selection-corrected predictions of counterfactual individual earnings and use them to estimate a discrete … earnings significantly shape individual migration decisions, even in an episode in which Ecuadorians mostly chose Spain where … earnings were lower than in the US, and they contribute to explaining the observed composition of migration flows. Moreover …
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Immigrant economic assimilation: Evidence from UK longitudinal data between 1978 and 2006
Lemos, Sara - In: Labour Economics 24 (2013) C, pp. 339-353
–native earnings gap at entry and over time for the UK between 1978 and 2006. That is, we attempt to separately estimate cohort and … assimilation effects. We also estimate the associated immigrant earnings growth rate and immigrant–native earnings convergence rate … earnings of immigrants from more recent cohorts catch up faster with natives' earnings. While the convergence took over 30years …
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Does return migration influence fertility at home? : migrants encounter different fertility norms while abroad, which they can bring back upon returning home
Bertoli, Simone - 2015
Demographic factors in migrant-sending countries can influence international migration flows. But when migrants move across borders, they can also influence the pace of demographic transition in their countries of origin. This is because migrants, who predominantly move on a temporary basis,...
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Can selective immigration policies reduce migrants' quality?
Bertoli, Simone; Dequiedt, Vianney; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
Destination countries have been resorting to selective immigration policies to improve migrants' quality. We propose a model that analyzes the effects of selective immigration policies on migrants' quality, measured by their wages at destination. Screening potential migrants on the basis of...
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Income of immigrants and their return : both low- and high-income immigrants stay for a relatively short time
Bijwaard, Govert - 2015
The majority of immigrants stay only temporarily in the host country. When many migrations are temporary, it is important to know who leaves and who stays, and why. The key questions for the host country are whether immigrants are net contributors to the welfare system and whether migrants...
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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...
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The working hours of immigrants in Germany : temporary versus permanent
Kahanec, Martin; Shields, Michael P. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-15
Migration is often viewed as an investment decision. Temporary migrants can be expected to invest less in accumulating human capital specific to the host country. Instead, they work more hours in order to accumulate savings and invest in financial capital that can be transferred back to their...
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