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Informational Cascades and Decision to Migrate

Epstein, Gil S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

We introduce the idea that informational cascades can explain the observed regularity that emigrants from the same locations also tend to choose the same foreign locations. Thus informational cascades generate herd behavior. Herd behavior is compared with the network externalities explanation of...

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The Influence of Others on Migration Plans

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

roles “other people” play in influencing an individual’s potential migration decision. In analyzing the influence of others … on migration decisions, we rely on the concepts of migration networks and herd effects. …

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High Skilled Migration and the Exertion of Effort by the Local Population

Epstein, Gil S.; Kunze, Astrid; Ward, Melanie E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

The design of optimal immigration policy, particularly in the face of the spiralling demand for highly skilled workers, such as IT workers and engineers, is a topical issue in the policy debate as well as the economic literature. In this paper, we present empirical evidence from firm level data...

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Enclaves, Language and the Location Choice of Migrants

Bauer, Thomas K.; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

Empirical studies in the migration literature have shown that migration enclaves (networks) negatively affect the … data on Mexican migration to the US, we show that migrants choose smaller networks as their English language proficiency …

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Migration, Transfers and Child Labor

Dimova, Ralitza; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We examine agricultural child labor in the context of emigration, transfers, and the ability to hire outside labor. We … the hypothesis that both emigration and remittances reduce child labor. …

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Social Harmony at the Boundaries of the Welfare State: Immigrants and Social Transfers

Epstein, Gil S.; Hillman, Arye L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

The social contract of the welfare state can be strained by the arrival of immigrants who receive welfare payments financed by citizens’ taxes. We show, however, that the presence of unemployed immigrants receiving welfare payments is consistent with social harmony. The social harmony, which...

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Migrants, Ethnicity and the Welfare State

Epstein, Gil S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

A model is set up where migrants must choose a level of social traits and consumption of ethnic goods. As the consumption level of ethnic goods increases, the migrants become ever more different to the local population and are less assimilated. Less assimilation affects the reaction of the local...

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Frontier Issues of the Political Economy of Migration

Epstein, Gil S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Migration has a strong economic impact on the sending and host countries. Since individuals and groups do not benefit … equally from migration, interest groups emerge to protect and take care of their narrow self-interests and compete for rents … generated by migration. Narrow self-interests may be present not only for interest groups but also for ruling politicians and …

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A Political Economy of the Immigrant Assimilation: Internal Dynamics

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Within immigrant society different groups wish to help the migrants in different ways – immigrant societies are multi-layered and multi-dimensional. We examine the situation where there exists a foundation that has resources and that wishes to help the migrants. To do so they need migrant...

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Assimilation through Marriage

Epstein, Gil S.; Lindner Pomerantz, Renana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

During the last few decades cultural changes have been taking place in many countries due to migration. The degree to …

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