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Immigration: The European Experience
dustmann, christian; Frattini, Tommaso - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2012
of the skill structures of immigrants and their labor market integration in the different European countries, their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009391405
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Immigration: The European Experience
dustmann, christian; Frattini, Tommaso - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2011
of the skill structures of immigrants and their labor market integration in the different European countries, their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009421742
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Preferences for Redistribution among Emigrants from a Welfare State
Poutvaara, Panu; Kauppinen, Ilpo - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2012
This paper studies attitudes towards income redistribution in the country of origin among those who stay in a welfare state, and those who emigrate. We find a striking gender difference among Danish emigrants. Majority of men opposes increasing income redistribution, while majority of women...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009421132
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The Impacts of International Migration on Remaining Household Members: Omnibus Results from a Migration Lottery Program
Gibson, John; McKenzie, David Mckenzie; Stillman, Steven - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2009
The impacts of international migration on development in the sending countries, and especially the effects on remaining household members, are increasingly studied. However, comparisons of households in developing countries with and without migrants are complicated by a double-selectivity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009317974
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The Effect of Emigration from Poland on Polish Wages
dustmann, christian; Frattini, Tommaso; Rosso, Anna - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2012
This paper analyses the effect of emigration from Poland around the time of EU accession on the Polish labour market … are currently living abroad, which allows us to develop region-specific emigration rates and estimate emigrationâ …€™s effect on wages using within-region variation. Our results show that emigration from Poland was largest for workers with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011129914
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Ethnicity and Second Generation Immigrants in Britain
dustmann, christian; Frattini, Tommaso; Theodoropoulos, … - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2010
This paper reviews the labour market performance and educational attainment of ethnic minorities and second generation immigrants in the UK over the last three decades. We first describe the size and composition of the minority population and its regional distribution over time, and investigate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009317941
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Heterogeneous Firms and Imperfect Substitution: The Productivity Effect of Migrants
Haas, Anette; Lucht, Michael - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2013
To examine the impact of migrants on the average firm productivity, wages and welfare we construct a general equilibrium model with monopolistic competition a la Melitz (2003) considering heterogeneous firms with different productivity levels and imperfect substitutability between migrants and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010693432
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Migration, Risk Attitudes, and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey
Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2013
Do more risk loving migrants opt for self-employment? This is a question especially relevant for policy makers designing selective immigration policies in countries of destination. In order to provide a rigorous answer to it, we use a novel vignette-adjusted measure of risk preferences in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010839545
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Migration, Risk Attitudes, and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey
Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2014
Do more risk loving migrants opt for self-employment? This is a question especially relevant for policy makers designing selective immigration policies in countries of destination. In order to provide a rigorous answer to it, we use a novel vignette-adjusted measure of risk preferences in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744648
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Do Migrants Send Remittances as a Way of Self-Insurance? Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey
Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2014
Do migrants send remittances as a way of obtaining insurance? While this motive is theoretically suggested in the literature, the question of identifying this relationship empirically has only begun to be explored. Using a unique representative survey of 1500 immigrants in the Greater Dublin...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744649