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Workers without Borders? Culture, Migration and the Political Limits to Globalization

Jain, Sanjay; Majumdar, Sumon; Mukand, Sharun - CESifo - 2010

This paper examines the role of cultural factors in driving the politics and shape of migration policy. We show that … equilibria: some countries have mostly temporary migration programs and see a low degree of cultural assimilation by the migrants …

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Why are Educated and Risk-Loving Persons More Mobile Across Regions

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; … - CESifo - 2012

distance-related migration costs cannot explain the lower distance sensitivity of educated and risk-loving individuals. …

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The Cost of Migrating to a Culturally Different Location

Falck, Oliver; Lameli, Alfred; Ruhose, Jens - CESifo - 2014

Ever since Sjaastad (1962), researchers have struggled to quantify the psychic cost of migration. We monetize psychic … geographic distance and pre-migration wage profiles, we find that migrants demand a (indexed with respect to local rents) wage …

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Do Ethnic Enclaves Impede Immigrants' Integration? Evidence from a Quasi-Experimental Social-Interaction Approach

Danzer, Alexander M.; Yaman, Firat - CESifo - 2012

It is widely debated whether immigrants who live among co-ethnics are less willing to integrate into the host society. Exploiting the quasi-experimental guest worker placement across German regions during the 1960/70s as well as information on immigrants’ inter-ethnic contact networks and...

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Dialects, Cultural Identity, and Economic Exchange

Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lameli, Alfred; … - CESifo - 2010

a gravity analysis, we show that current cross-regional migration is positively affected by historical dialect …

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