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Immmigration and Internal Mobility in Canada

Beine, Michel; Coulombe, Serge - CESifo - 2014

-matching framework (Pissaridès, 1985, 2000) in a migration model à la Harris and Todaro (1970). We find that the inflow of TFWs into a …

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Immigration, Growth and Unemployment: Panel VAR Evidence from OECD Countries

Boubtane, Ekrame; Coulibaly, Dramane; Rault, Christophe - CESifo - 2013

results provide evidence of migration contribution to host economic prosperity (positive impact on GDP per capita and negative … impact on aggregate unemployment, native- and foreign-born unemployment rates). We also find that migration is influenced by … host economic conditions (migration responds positively to host GDP per capita and negatively to host total unemployment …

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Immigration, Search, and Redistribution: A Quantitative Assessment of Native Welfare

Battisti, Michele; Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Peri, Giovanni; … - CESifo - 2014

We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search frictions, wage bargaining, and a redistributive welfare state. Our quantitative analysis suggests that, in all 20 countries studied, immigration attenuates the effects of...

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Immigration, Unemployment and Growth in the Host Country: Bootstrap Panel Granger Causality Analysis on OECD Countries

Boubtane, Ekrame; Coulibaly, Dramane; Rault, Christophe - CESifo - 2013

This paper examines the causality relationship between immigration, unemployment and economic growth of the host country. We employ the panel Granger causality testing approach of Konya (2006) that is based on SUR systems and Wald tests with country specific bootstrap critical values. This...

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Managing Migration through Conflicting Policies: an Option-theory Perspective

Moretto, Michele; Vergalli, Sergio - CESifo - 2009

Recent European legislation on immigration has revealed a particular paradox on migration policies. On the one hand … relax limits for immigrants in order to control migration inflows better. To this end, we use a real option approach to … migration choice that assumes that the decision to migrate can be described as an irreversible investment decision. In our model …

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Native Welfare Losses from High Skilled Immigration

Kemnitz, Alexander - CESifo - 2008

This paper explores the effects of high skilled immigration to a host country with unionized low skilled labor and an unemployment insurance scheme. We show that such immigration can create a negative immigration surplus due to adverse effects on low skilled employment, provided that fiscal...

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Immigration and Entrepreneurship

Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - CESifo - 2015

Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This is reflected in immigration policies and many developed countries have created special visas and entry requirements in an attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not...

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Student and Graduate Migration and its Effect on the Financing of Higher Education

Haussen, Tina; Uebelmesser, Silke - CESifo - 2014

The number of tertiary students enrolled outside their home country has almost doubled in the last decade. In higher education systems that are partly tax-funded, a country’s labor force might not be willing to subsidize the education of foreign students who can be expected to work abroad...

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Dutch Disease and the Mitigation Effect of Migration: Evidence from Canadian Provinces

Beine, Michel; Coulombe, Serge; Vermeulen, Wessel N. - CESifo - 2012

interprovincial migration and temporary international migration. There is no evidence of such an effect for permanent international … immigration. Nevertheless, interprovincial migration also results in a spreading effect of Dutch disease from booming to non …

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Tradable Immigration Quotas

Moraga, Jesus Fernandez-Huertas; Rapoport, Hillel - CESifo - 2013

International migration is maybe the single most effective way to alleviate global poverty. When a given host country … individuals and governments who care about world poverty. This implies that the existing international migration regime is …

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