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When the Quality of a Nation triggers Emigration

Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Henkens, Kène - Tinbergen Institute - 2006

Why do people leave high-income countries with extensive welfare states? This article will examine what underlies the emigration intentions of native-born inhabitants of one industrialized country in particular: the Netherlands. To understand emigration from high-income countries we focus not...

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Global Aging and Economic Convergence: A Real Option or Still a Case of Science Fiction?

Dalen, Hendrik P. van - Tinbergen Institute - 2007

to be a sustainable solution to unbalanced global economic developments. Remittances, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and …. Remittances offer no structural solution to reduction of poverty as these funds flow to a selective group of families and are …

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Remittances and their Effect on Emigration Intentions in Egypt, Morocco and Turkey

Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Groenewold, George; Fokkema, Tineke - Tinbergen Institute - 2005

remittances has a positive effect on emigration intentions of household members living in the country of origin. Therefore …What determines remittances – altruism or enlightened self-interest - and do remittances trigger additional migration … effects on receipt of remittances than net earnings potential of households in the country of origin. Second, the receipt of …

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Zipf's Law for Integrated Economies

Bowen, Harry P.; Munandar, Haris; Viaene, Jean-Marie - Tinbergen Institute - 2005

We first demonstrate that, within a fully integrated economy (FIE) in which there is free mobility of goods and factors, each FIE member's share of total FIE output will equal its shares of the total FIE stock of each productive factor. This equal-share property implies that, if economic...

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The Fallacy of “Job Robbing”: A Meta-Analysis of Estimates of the Effect of Immigration on Employment

Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Tinbergen Institute - 2006

Immigration is a phenomenon of growing significance in many countries. Increasing social tensions are leading to political pressure to limit a further influx of foreign-born persons on the grounds that the absorption capacity of host countries has been exceeded and social cohesion threatened....

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Out of Africa: What drives the Pressure to emigrate?

Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Groenewold, George; Schoorl, … - Tinbergen Institute - 2003

migration behaviour. Both ties within the household with household members who have international migration experience and ties …

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Migration and Foreign Direct Investment: Education Matters

Gheasi, Masood; Nijkamp, Peter; Rietveld, Piet - Tinbergen Institute - 2011

The rapid growth in the foreign-born population in many high and middle-income countries in recent decades has prompted much research on the socio-economic determinants and impacts of immigration. This paper investigates the relationship between the stock of foreign population by nationality...

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Regional Economic Impacts of Immigration: A Review

Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Tinbergen Institute - 2009

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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On the Extent of Economic Integration: A Comparison of EU Countries and US States

Bowen, Harry P.; Munandar, Haris; Viaene, Jean-Marie - Tinbergen Institute - 2010

This discussion paper led to a forthcoming publication in </I>Journal of Regional Science</I> entitled 'Are EU Countries less Integrated than US States? Theory and Evidence'.<P> European economic integration is commonly believed to be incomplete, and that further reforms are needed. In this context, the...</p>

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The Rationality behind Immigration Preferences

Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Henkens, Kène - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

What drives stated preferences about the number of foreigners? Is it self-interest as stressed by the political economy of immigration? Does social interaction affect this preference or is the immigration preference completely in line with the preference for the aggregate population size? In...

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