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International migration not only enables individuals to earn higher wages but also exposes them to new environments … caregivers in migrant households. Using unique survey data from Moldova, we find that international migration raises parental … on GDP growth shocks in the destination countries and migration networks. We conclude that aspirations are a highly …
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in a migration experience, which increases the migrant's aspirations. This will induce her to invest more in the … given migration rate. We show that the optimal migration rate that maximizes the post-migration skill-rate of the population … is higher if we allow for the aspirations effect of migration. We use panel data from Indonesia to demonstrate that a …
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This paper studies the effect of top tax rates on inventors' mobility since 1977. We put special emphasis on "superstar" inventors, those with the most and most valuable patents. We use panel data on inventors from the United States and European Patent Offices to track inventors' locations over...
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in their effective hours of labor when they move to the United States; (iii) migration reduces inequality, more …
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This paper examines migrants' choice of destination conditional on migration. To this end, we design an empirical … strategy which remedies both migration selection and unobserved heterogeneity problems. The study uses data from two rounds of … Nepal Living Standard Surveys and a Population Census and examine how the choice of a migration destination is influenced by …
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. This essay provides a broad and in-depth account of the effects of the post-enlargement migration flows on the receiving as … analysis of the available literature and empirical evidence shows that (i) EU enlargement had a significant impact on migration … hard to detect, (iv) post-enlargement migration contributes to growth prospects of the EU, (v) these immigrants are …
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, smoking, occupational choice, participation in sports, and migration, the paper compares the predictive power of all of the …
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There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labor force, and the potential policy responses. This paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success....
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As part of their effort to pool individual risk, households consider spreading their members over a plurality of locations, both inside and outside their country of origin. At the same time, the world is ridden with ‘Chinatowns’ and ‘Little Italies’: people, whenever they move, tend to...
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Economically active people are either in gainful employment, are unemployed or self-employed. We are interested in the dynamics of the transitions between these states across the business cycle. It is generally perceived that employment or self-employment are absorbing states. However,...
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