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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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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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See also the article 'The effect of migration on income growth and convergence: Meta-analytic evidence' in <I>Papers in … that explicitly measure the effect of a net migration variable in neoclassical convergence models and derive 57 comparable … effect sizes. The data suggest that an increase in the net migration rate of one percentage point increases on average the …
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In our increasingly interconnected and open world, international migration is becoming an important socio …
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improved by decomposing population growth into netinterregional migration and exogenous natural popu1ation developments. We … find thatemployment growth responds quite strongly to deviations from regional labour marketequilibria. Net migration is …
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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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migration behaviour. Both ties within the household with household members who have international migration experience and ties …
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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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This paper aims to provide a conceptual and operational context for analysing regional inequalities. It does so by utilizing a ‘search & matching’ framework. The model, developed in this paper, maps the way in which individuals are distributed according to: 1) the abilities of individuals to...
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