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I show how the influences of unskilled immigration, differential fertility between immigrants and the local indigenous … low-skilled workers lose from unskilled immigration even if the indigenous low-skilled workers do not finance …
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interaction between pre-migration labor supply and source country female labor supply. We obtain similar effects on hourly …
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micro data on internal migrants from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 2000–2006 and merge this information with a … distance-related migration costs cannot explain the lower distance sensitivity of educated and risk-loving individuals. …
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paper documents the demographic and fiscal importance of international migration, especially in aging societies, reviews the …
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This paper looks at the impact of networks on international migration flows to OECD countries. In particular, we look …, unlike the preceding literature on macro determinants of international migration, we can identify the respective factors … gender. Women are also found to be less directly dependent on migration costs unrelated to networks such as distance. …
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This paper quantitatively investigates the short- and long-run effects of liberalizing global migration on the world … distribution of income. We develop and parametrize a dynamic model of the world economy with endogenous migration, fertility and … education decisions. We identify bilateral migration costs and their legal component for each pair of countries and two classes …
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In this note, we show that labour market integration can be a double-edged sword. In the presence of local human capital externalities, integration and the ensuing agglomeration of skilled labour can cause a decline in human capital and the total wage sum (net of education costs). In particular,...
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This work focuses on a temporary guest-worker-type migration of individuals from the middle class of the wealth …
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1820-1909.We apply age heaping techniques to measure human capital selectivity of international migrants. In a sample of 52 … source and five destination countries we find selective migration determined by relative anthropometric inequality in source …
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original and detailed data on migration. Our results provide evidence of a strong transfer of fertility norms from migrants to …This paper examines the relationship between international migration and source country fertility. The impact of … international migration on source country fertility may have a number of causes, including a transfer of destination countries …
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