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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

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 residing in Ireland was offered the possibility of contacting … remittance recipients' social pressure on migrants. …

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Interprovincial Migration in China: The Effects of Investment and Migrant Networks

Bodvarsson, Orn B.; Bao, Shuming; Hou, Jack W.; Zhao, Yaohui - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Since the 1980s, China’s government has eased restrictions on internal migration. This easing, along with rapid growth of the Chinese economy and substantial increases in foreign and domestic investments, has greatly stimulated internal migration. Earlier studies have established that...

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Ethnic German Immigration from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union to Germany: the Effects of Migrant Networks

Dietz, Barbara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999

This paper employed a widely accepted theoretical concept, the ‘theory of migrant networks’ to look at the recent immigration and absorption experience of ethnic Germans (Aussiedler) from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union in Germany. Consistent with network theory, the social...

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Migrant Labor Markets and the Welfare of Rural Households in the Developing World: Evidence from China

de Brauw, Alan; Giles, John T. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

In this paper, we examine the impact of reductions in barriers to migration on the consumption of households in rural China. We find that increased migration from rural villages leads to significant increases in consumption per capita, and that this effect is stronger for poorer households...

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The Regulation of Migration in a Transition Economy: China’s Hukou System

Bao, Shuming; Bodvarsson, Örn B.; Hou, Jack W.; Zhao, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Unlike most countries, China regulates internal migration. Public benefits, access to good quality housing, schools, health care, and attractive employment opportunities are available only to those who have local registration (Hukou). Coincident with the deepening of economic reforms, Hukou has...

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Institutional Features of Wage Bargaining in 23 European Countries, the US and Japan

Du Caju, Philip; Gautier, Erwan; Momferatou, Daphne; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper presents information on wage bargaining institutions, collected using a standardized questionnaire. Our data provide information from 1995 and 2006, for four sectors of activity and the aggregate economy, considering 23 European countries, plus the US and Japan. Main findings include...

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Ethnic Goods and Immigrant Assimilation

Abdulloev, Ilhom; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Some immigrants try to keep their ethnicity hidden while others become ever deeply more mired in their home culture. We argue that among immigrants this struggle manifests itself in the ethnic goods they choose to consume. Different types of ethnic goods have vastly different effects on...

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The Psychic Costs of Migration: Evidence from Irish Return Migrants

Barrett, Alan; Mosca, Irene - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

alcohol problems than men who stayed. For women, we again see a higher incidence of alcohol problems for short-term migrants …. However, long-term female migrants are less likely to have suffered from alcohol problems. …

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Do Migrants Get Good Jobs in Australia? The Role of Ethnic Networks in Job Search

Mahuteau, Stéphane; Junankar, Pramod N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

We study the role of ethnic networks in migrants’ job search and the quality of jobs they find in the first years of … result of restrictions in welfare eligibility since 1997, we study whether this increases the probability that new migrants … view. However, accounting for their higher employability, new migrants seem to fare better up to a year and half after …

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Extremism within the Family

Epstein, Gil S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

social traits of parents has an effect on the segregation of minorities and migrants. …

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