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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 …€™s effect on wages using within-region variation. Our results show that emigration from Poland was largest for workers with …. Focussing on the 1998–2007 period for Poland, we use a unique data set that contains information about household members who …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011129914
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Spending more is spending less: on the desirability of enforcing migration
Facchini, Giovanni; Casarico, Alessandra; Frattini, Tommaso - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2012
We study the migration policy set by a welfare maximizing government in a model where immigrant workers differ in their skills and are imperfectly matched with heterogenous occupations. The policy fixes a minimum skill level for legal migrants, and foreign workers that fall below it can only...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009421130
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The macroeconomic consequences of migration diversion: evidence for Germany and the UK
Baas, Timo; Brücker, Herbert - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2012
This paper examines the macroeconomic consequences of the diversion of migration flows away from Germany towards the UK in the course of the EU’s Eastern Enlargement. The EU has agreed transitional periods for the free movement of workers with the new member states from Central and Eastern...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009421133
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Skill-biased technological change, unemployment and brain drain
Fadinger, Harald; Mayr, Karin - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2012
skill endowments on wages, employment rates and emigration rates of skilled and unskilled workers. We find that, depending …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009421134
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IMMIGRATION AND INNOVATION IN EUROPEAN REGIONS
Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques; Ozgen, Ceren - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2011
The concentration of people with diverse socio-cultural backgrounds in particular geographic areas may boost the creation of new ideas, knowledge spillovers, entrepreneurship, and economic growth. In this paper we measure the impact of the size, skills, and diversity of immigration on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009131027
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The rhetoric of closed borders: quotas, lax enforcement and illegal migration
Facchini, Giovanni; testa, cecilia - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2010
In 2008, approximately 12 million immigrants lived illegally in the United States, and large numbers of undocumented foreigners resided also in other advanced destination countries. Hence, attempts at controlling immigration flows seem to often fail. If governments are not enforcing their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009131029
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The Impact of Labour Market Dynamics on the Return-Migration of Immigrants
Bijwaard, Govert; Schluter, Christian; Wahba, Jackline - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2011
Using administrative panel data on the entire population of new labour immigrants to The Netherlands, we estimate the causal effects of labour dynamics on their return decisions. Specifically, the roles of unemployment and re-employment spells on immigration durations are examined. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009131031
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International Migration, Imperfect Information and Brain Drain
Dequiedt, Vianney; Zenou, Yves - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2011
We consider a model of international migration where skills of workers are imperfectly observed by firms in the host country and where information asymmetries are more severe for immigrants than for natives. There are two stages. In the first one, workers in the South decide whether to move and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009141318