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of covillagers at destination, using data on life-time histories of migration and education choices from a rural region …
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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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somewhat controversial. The most recent literature has focused on the link between skilled out-migration and educational …
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making migration and FDI complements rather than substitutes in the long run. In this paper, we estimate the magnitude of … capital and migration stocks rather than flows. Regarding migrants, we distinguish the total and the skilled diasporas abroad …
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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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neighbouring countries. We estimate migration intentions of Mozambicans before and after the attacks, controlling for the … characteristics of households and previous migration behaviour. Using a placebo period, we show that other things equal, the migration … intention of household heads decreases from 37 to 33 percent. The sensitivity of migration intentions to violence is larger for …
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The pace of international skilled migration has accelerated during recent decades and it has attracted considerable … stylized facts on the magnitude and skill composition of migration and explores the main findings on brain drain. Then it …
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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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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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Temporary and circular migration programs have been devised by many destination countries and supported by the European … additional reason for proposing temporary migration policies based on the characteristics of the foreign labor-effort supply. The … migrants may rise when temporary migration policies are adopted. …
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