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difference, international trade, remittances, and a heterogeneous workforce. We compare welfare under the observed levels of … Canada or Australia -- are better off due to greater product variety available in consumption and as intermediate inputs. In … unskilled natives tend to experience welfare changes of opposite signs. The remaining natives in countries with large emigration …
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emigration life cycle since the 1960s, and, except for Africa, emigration rates have been level or even declining since a peak in … the late 1980s the early 1990s. The current economic crisis will serve only to accelerate those trends. The paper … estimates the economic and demographic fundamentals driving these Third World emigration life cycles to the United States since …
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This paper studies asymmetry of information and transfers within a unique data set of 712 extended family networks from Tanzania. Using cross-reports on asset holdings, we construct measures of misperception of income among all pairs of households belonging to the same network. We show that...
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Despite their small number, Israeli economists have become an important fixture in the international academic scene. In recent years, this phenomenon has been characterized by an additional attribute: the number of Israelis who have chosen to leave the country’s universities - or not to return...
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We study how smugglers respond to different types of migration policies - legalisation through the sale of migration visas, or more traditional repressive policies through borders' enforcement, employers' sanctions or deportation - by changing the price they propose to illegal migrants. In this...
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Have Irish, German or Italian settlers arriving in the US at the turn of the 20th century left an institutional trace which determines economic development differences to this day? Does the national origin of migrants matter for long-term development? This paper explores whether the distinct...
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This paper examines the extent to which the distinct settlement pattern of migrants arriving in the US during the big migration waves of the late 19th and early 20th centuries has left a legacy on the economic development of the counties where they settled and whether this legacy can be traced...
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We provide new estimates of migrant flows into and out of America during the Age of Mass Migration at the turn of the twentieth century. Our analysis is based on a novel data set of administrative records covering the universe of 24 million migrants who entered Ellis Island, New York between...
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Many migrations are temporary – a fact that has often been ignored in the economic literature on migration. Such omission may be serious in that expected migration temporariness can impart a distinct dynamic element to immigrants’ economic behavior, generating possible consequences for...
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Israel, is over twice the overall academic emigration rates (at all levels) from European countries. Signs of what is …
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