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The Cliometrics of International Migration: A Survey
Hatton, Timothy J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
migrations. Here I focus on the period 1850 to 1940 and chiefly on migration from Europe to the New World. The survey is …
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International Migration and the Integration of Labor Markets
Chiswick, Barry R.; Hatton, Timothy J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
Colonial settlement. The contract and coerced migration from Europe and Africa gave way, from the 18th century, to an era of … free European migration. The period 1850 to 1913 was one of mass migration, primarily from Europe to North America and … constraints of immigration controls. Europe joined North America and Oceania as a major destination, as did the oil producing Arab …
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Fünf Jahre EU-Ostererweiterung: Schlechte Noten für deutsche Abschottungspolitik
Rinne, Ulf; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Arbeitnehmerfreizügigkeit innerhalb der Europäischen Union führt nicht zu Belastungen des Arbeitsmarktes und der Sozialversicherungen. Zu diesem Ergebnis kommt eine aktuelle Forschungsarbeit über die Entwicklungen und Folgen der Ost-West-Migration nach den jüngsten Erweiterungsrunden der...
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Let's Be Selective about Migrant Self-Selection
Biavaschi, Costanza; Elsner, Benjamin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Migrants are typically self-selected from the population of their home country. While a large literature has identified the causes of self-selection, we turn in this paper to the consequences. Using a combination of non-parametric econometrics and calibrated simulation, we quantify the impact of...
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Migration to Sweden from the New EU Member States
Wadensjö, Eskil - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Sweden did not apply any transitional rules for migrants coming from the ten new European Union member states in May 2004. The migration to Sweden from these countries also increased, especially from Poland and the Baltic states, even if not to the same extent as the immigration to Ireland and...
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There Goes the Neighborhood? People’s Attitudes and the Effects of Immigration to Australia
Sinning, Mathias; Vorell, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper compares the effects of immigration flows on economic outcomes and crime levels to the public opinion about these effects using individual and regional data for Australia. We employ an instrumental variables strategy to account for non-random location choices of immigrants and find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009225772
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Multilateral Resistance to Migration
Bertoli, Simone; Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Jesús - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
immigration boom between 1997 and 2009. Compared to more restrictive estimation strategies developed in the literature, the bias …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294833
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The Role of Language in Shaping International Migration
Adsera, Alicia; Pytlikova, Mariola - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Fluency in (or ease to quickly learn) the language of the destination country plays a key role in the transfer of human capital from the source country to another country and boosts the immigrant's rate of success at the destination's labor market. This suggests that the ability to learn and...
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Migrant Remittances and Information Flows: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Batista, Catia; Narciso, Gaia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Do information flows matter for remittance behavior? We design and implement a randomized control trial to quantitatively assess the role of communication between migrants and their contacts abroad on the extent and value of remittance flows. In the experiment, a random sample of 1,500 migrants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010726722
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International Labor Mobility and Child Work in Developing Countries
De Paoli, Anna; Mendola, Mariapia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper investigates the labor market effect of international migration on child work in countries of origin. We use an original cross-country survey dataset, which combines information on international migration with detailed individual-level data on child labor at age 5-14 in a wide range...
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