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The impact of corruption on apprehension level of immigrants: A study of the United States immigration
Buzurukov, Bilol; Lee, Byeong Wan - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014
This paper demonstrates the effect of country level corruption on illicit behavior of individuals in a foreign country. The empirical research investigates the probability of individuals being apprehended overseas due to the influence of corrupt environment in their home countries. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010961611
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Alone but Better Off? Adult Child Migration and Health of Elderly Parents in Moldova
Böhme, Marcus; Persian, Ruth; Stoehr, Tobias - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013
Increasing labor migration and simultaneous aging of societies are two important demographic developments many poor countries face. Elderly people who are left behind may experience a decrease in welfare when their children migrate. This paper investigates the e ect of migration on various...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886996
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Empirical Characteristics of Legal and Illegal Immigrants in the U.S.
Caponi, Vincenzo - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013
We combine the New Immigrant Survey (NIS), which contains information on US legal immigrants, with the American Community Survey (ACS), which contains information on all immigrants to the U.S., legal and illegal ones. Using econometric methodology proposed by Lancaster and Imbens (1996) we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010887018
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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
Human trafficking is a humanitarian problem of global scale, but quantitative research on the issue barely exists. This paper is a first attempt to explore the economic drivers of human trafficking and migrant exploitation using micro data. We argue that migration pressure combined with informal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010955680
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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
Human trafficking is a humanitarian problem of global scale, but quantitative research on the issue barely exists. This paper is a first attempt to explore the economic drivers of human trafficking and migrant exploitation using micro data. We argue that migration pressure combined with informal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755119
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Gender Differences in Risk Preferences and Stereotypes: Experimental Evidence from a Matrilineal and a Patrilineal Society
Pondorfer, Andreas; Mahmoud, Toman Omar; Rehdanz, Katrin; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014
We use a controlled experiment to analyze gender differences in risk preferences and stereotypes about risk preferences … matrilineal Teop in Papua New Guinea. We find no gender differences in actual risk preferences, but evidence for culture …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010905566
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The Returns to Occupational Foreign Language Use: Evidence from Germany
Stoehr, Tobias - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013
This paper analyses the wage premia associated with workers' occupational use of foreign languages in Germany. After eliminating time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity and other confounding factors, sizable returns of about 10 percent to applying fluent English skills are found. Returns to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010887011
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Long-Run Determinants of Immigration to Germany 1974-1999: A Ricardian Framework
Foders, Federico - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2003
This paper examines the long-run determinants of immigration to Germany using a modified version of the Ricardo model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005818842
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Germany; an Immigration Country
Siebert, Horst - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2003
Germany has about the same proportion of foreigners in its population as the United States, it is an immigration … country. In a way, Germany has let immigration happen, but it did not really have an explicit immigration policy in the past …. Now it has to make up its mind on its immigration policy in the future. The paper looks at the experience with immigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005818846
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Global Governance: Old and New Issues
Hufbauer, Gary Clyde - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008
supplies, immigration, and economic responses to political chaos. A few of these, but not the majority, are seen as good …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700588