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international migration research, both from a methodological as well as an empirical perspective. The purpose of this paper is … twofold. First, it aims to provide an overview of that part of the migration literature that is concerned with the …
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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...
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Using meta-analytical techniques, we focus on 11 studies that explicitly measure the effect of a net migration variable … migration rate of one percentage point increases on average the GDP per capita growth rate by 0.13 percent, thus suggesting a … net migration impact that is more consistent with endogenous self-reinforcing growth rather than neoclassical convergence …
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In our increasingly interconnected and open world, international migration is becoming an important socio …
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model is improved by decomposing population growth into net interregional migration and exogenous natural popu1ation … migration is dominated by housing market developments and in the short run on1y slightly affected by increases in regional …
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potential growth phase may well disappear if supporting conditions for growth are absent. Large-scale migration is not expected … allocated generally to consumption rather than to investment purposes. Migration of a temporary nature in conjunction with …
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migration behaviour. Both ties within the household with household members who have international migration experience and ties …
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What determines remittances – altruism or enlightened self-interest - and do remittances trigger additional migration …, receipt of remittances may contribute to new flows of migration, in particular in the case of Morocco. …
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How valuable is education for entrepreneurs’ performance as compared to employees’? What might explain any differences? And does education affect peoples’ occupational choices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of US labor force participants. We show that...
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This paper examines the extent to which human capital theory can explain observed wage differentials in the Russian Federation. Wage and income dispersion have increased markedly in Russia in the six years since the transition began. Some studies conclude that this is an indicator that Russian...
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