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Immigrants, Ethnic Identities and the Nation-State
Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
In the Western world, multiculturalism has become the way to view and form "nationhood," igniting the interest to understand and model identity. The complexity of identity formation, however, has been firm and ethnic and national identities have been deviating more and more. In this paper, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010705561
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Does Bilateral Trust Affect International Movement of Goods and Labor?
Spring, Eva; Grossmann, Volker - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
separately with eight indicators of genetic ("somatic") distance between country-pairs. These indicators work equally well at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010658714
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Should I Stay or Should I Go? Romanian Migrants during Transition and Enlargements
Andrén, Daniela; Roman, Monica - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
The change in Romanian political regime in 1989 has lifted the barriers for population circulation and mobility that were further more amplified in 2002 by the liberalization of Romanians' circulation in the Schengen space. In such context, the aim of this paper is to analyze to what extent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011105409
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International Migration of Couples
Junge, Martin; Munk, Martin D.; Poutvaara, Panu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We present a theory on migration of dual-earner couples and test it in the context of international migration. Our model predicts that the probability that a couple emigrates increases in the home-country earnings of the primary earner. The effect of the home-country earnings of the secondary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010885186
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Women on the Move: The Neglected Gender Dimension of the Brain Drain
martin, john paul; Spielvogel, Gilles; Dumont, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
jointly, however, mainly due to the lack of relevant data. This paper addresses this shortcoming by looking at the gender … identify people by country of residence, place of birth, gender and level of education. The evidence summarized in this paper … are now more or less gender-balanced. A more surprising result is that this is also true for the highly skilled. Taking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703083
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Immigrants and Religion
Chiswick, Carmel U. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Religious considerations affect the decision to immigrate as well as the choice of destination country, and religious behaviors change as immigrants adjust to the economic context of their new country. This paper considers the interaction between the Economics of Religion and the Economics of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010760008
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959688
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Distortions in the International Migrant Labor Market: Evidence from Filipino Migration and Wage Responses to Destination Country Economic Shocks
McKenzie, David; Theoharides, Caroline; Yang, Dean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We use an original panel dataset of migrant departures from the Philippines to identify the responsiveness of migrant numbers and wages to GDP shocks in destination countries. We find a large significant elasticity of migrant numbers to GDP shocks at destination, but no significant wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279339
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Social Deprivation and Exclusion of Immigrants in Germany
Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Sinning, Mathias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper aims at providing empirical evidence on social exclusion of immigrants in Germany. We demonstrate that when using a conventional definition of the social inclusion index typically applied in the literature, immigrants appear to experience a significant degree of social deprivation and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233747
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Migration to Sweden from the New EU Member States
Wadensjö, Eskil - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
). The composition of the migrants changed. While earlier many more women than men arrived, now the gender composition is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233796