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The Rationality behind Immigration Preferences

Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Henkens, Kène - Tinbergen Instituut - 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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Regional Economic Impacts of Immigration: A Review

Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Tinbergen Instituut - 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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A Meta-Analytic Assessment of the Effect of Immigration on Wages

Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

expected to exert a downward pressure on wages. We revisit this issue by applying meta-analytic techniques to a sample of … immigration on wages of native groups with similar skills appears rather robust. …

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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 Instituut - 2006

resulting in economic costs, particularly with respect to wages and employment opportunities of the native born. This warrants a …

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When the Quality of a Nation triggers Emigration

Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Henkens, Kène - Tinbergen Instituut - 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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International Migration: A Global Complex Network

Tranos, Emmanouil; Gheasi, Masood; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

Migration has become a prominent research theme in geography and regional science and it has been approached from various methodological angles. Nonetheless, a common missing element in most migration studies is the lack of awareness of the overall network topology, which characterizes migration...

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Modeling Migration Dynamics of Immigrants

Bijwaard, Govert E. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

Netherlands. We show how we can allow for both permanent and temporary migrants. Based on data from Statistics Netherlands we … differences among migrants by migration motive and by country of origin and lend support to our analytical framework. Combining … composition of migrants in the country important policy implications can be derived, including admission procedures for different …

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The Effect of Immigration on Native Earnings

Zorlu, Aslan; Hartog, Joop - Tinbergen Instituut - 2000

wages of less skilled natives and a small positive effecton the wages of high skilledworkers as new immigrants are less …

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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 Instituut - 2005

What determines remittances – altruism or enlightened self-interest - and do remittances trigger additional migration? These two questions are examined empirically in Egypt, Turkey and Morocco for households with family members living abroad. Results show, first, that one cannot clearly...

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The Limiting Distribution of Production in Integrated Economies: Evidence from US States and EU Countries

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

We show that in a fully integrated economy, in which there is free mobility of goods and factors, each member’s share of total output will equal its shares of total stocks of productive factors (i.e., physical and human capital). We label this result the equal-share relationship. This...

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