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This paper analyzes the effects of parental migration on children left behind in order to understand whether and how … the effects of migration on children depend on which of their parents migrates. I describe the migration of one of the … Indonesia, where female migration is particularly widespread. To solve the selection problems entailed in the comparison between …
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The Common European Asylum System calls for increased coordination of the EU countries’ policies towards asylum seekers and refugees. In this paper, we provide a formal analysis of the effects of coordination, explicitly modelling the democratic process through which policy is determined. In a...
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The main objective of the paper is to establish the link between the exogenous migration shocks and endogenous foreign …
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Many workers with low levels of educational attainment immigrated to the United States in recent decades. In a simple model exploiting comparative advantage we show that if less-educated foreign and native-born workers specialize in performing different tasks, immigration will cause natives to...
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This paper provides the first direct evidence on the determinants of link formation among immigrants in the host society. We use a purposely-designed survey on a representative sample of Sri Lankan immigrants living in Milan to study how migrants form social links among them and the extent to...
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somewhat controversial. The most recent literature has focused on the link between skilled out-migration and educational …
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This paper explores the links between the patterns of migration (high vs. low-skill), trade policy, and foreign direct …-skill intensive, emigration of high- skill labour leads to positive FDI, suggesting that migration and FDI are complements. Cross …-sectional analysis using FDI and emigration data for 103 migration-sending countries over the period 1990-2000 finds some support for …
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Migration is an important and yet neglected determinant of institutions. The paper documents the channels through which …
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This paper provides new empirical evidence about the influence exerted by migration networks upon migrants‟ self …-selection in education from the analysis of the recent process of Ecuadorian migration. The severe economic crisis that hit Ecuador … in the late 1990s induced a massive wave of migration, from a country which was characterized by a substantial …
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This paper first presents a brief historical overview of immigration in Europe. We then provide (and distinguishing between EU and non-EU immigrants) a comprehensive analysis of the skill structures of immigrants and their labor market integration in the different European countries, their...
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