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Migration and Wage-Setting: Reassessing the Labor Market Effects of Migration
Brücker, Herbert; Jahn, Elke J. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009
This paper employs a wage-setting approach to analyze the labor market effects of immigration into Germany. The wage-setting framework relies on the assumption that wages tend to decline with the unemployment rate, albeit imperfectly. This enables us to consider labor market rigidities, which...
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Migration Experience, Aspirations and the Brain Drain - Theory and Empirical Evidence
Böhme, Marcus H.; Glaser, Toni - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014
in a migration experience, which increases the migrant's aspirations. This will induce her to invest more in the … given migration rate. We show that the optimal migration rate that maximizes the post-migration skill-rate of the population … is higher if we allow for the aspirations effect of migration. We use panel data from Indonesia to demonstrate that a …
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Family reunification or point-based immigration system? The case of the United States and Mexico
López Real, Joel - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011
in their effective hours of labor when they move to the United States; (iii) migration reduces inequality, more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009246867
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Worker Remittances and Capital Flows
Buch, Claudia M.; Kuckulenz, Anja; Manchec, Marie-Helene Le - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2002
The debate on the risks and benefits of the globalisation of international capital markets has focused on the volume and the volatility of the main capital flows — foreign direct investment (FDI), portfolio investment, and foreign bank lending. Financial transfers in the form of worker...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755227
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When a Random Sample is Not Random. Bounds on the Effect of Migration on Household Members Left Behind
Steinmayr, Andreas - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014
A key problem in the literature on the economics of migration is how emigration of an individual affects households …
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A Meta-Analytic Assessment of the Effect of Immigration on Wages
Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
In our increasingly interconnected and open world, international migration is becoming an important socio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256215
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The Economic Drivers of Human Trafficking: Micro-Evidence from Five Eastern European Countries.
Omar Mahmoud, Toman; Trebesch, Christoph - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009
argue that migration pressure combined with informal migration patterns and incomplete information are the key determinants …, Moldova, Romania, and Ukraine. The main result is in line with our expectations: Migrant families in high-migration areas and … indicate that illegal migration increases trafficking risks and that awareness campaigns and a reduction of information …
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The Rationality behind Immigration Preferences
Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Henkens, Kène - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
What drives stated preferences about the number of foreigners? Is it self-interest as stressed by the political economy of immigration? Does social interaction affect this preference or is the immigration preference completely in line with the preference for the aggregate population size? In...
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Regional Economic Impacts of Immigration: A Review
Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009
A burgeoning literature has emerged during the last two decades to assess the economic impacts of immigration on host countries. In recent years much research has been at the national level under the assumption that impacts in open regions may dissipate through adjustment processes such as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256173
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The Economic Drivers of Human Trafficking: Micro-Evidence from Five Eastern European Countries
Mahmoud, Toman Omar; Trebesch, Christoph - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009
argue that migration pressure combined with informal migration patterns and incomplete information are the key determinants …, Moldova, Romania, and Ukraine. The main result is in line with our expectations: Migrant families in high migration areas and … indicate that illegal migration increases trafficking risks and that awareness campaigns and a reduction of information …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755119