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The Spread of Anti-Trafficking Policies - Evidence from a New Index

Cho, Seo-Young; Dreher, Axel; Neumayer, Eric - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2011

We analyze the spread of policies dealing with international trafficking in human beings. Arguing that countries are unlikely to make independent choices, we identify pressure, externalities and learning or emulation as plausible diffusion mechanisms for spatial dependence in anti-trafficking...

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Can Health Foreign Assistance Break the Medical Brain Drain?

Moullan, Yasser - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2009

This paper analyses the impact of health foreign assistance on physicians' brain drain. We use the database from Bhargava and Docquier (2008) to explain physicians' brain drain and health foreign assistance from 1995 to 2003 using a bilateral gravity equation model. In the first time, we propose...

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How to Tackle the Gulf of Aden Buccaneers

Calahorrano, Lena; an de Meulen, Philipp - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2010

The surge of maritime piracy in the Gulf of Aden is often related to lawlessness and poverty in Somalia. We set up a simple model to describe the choice of becoming a pirate in a setting with an industrialized and a developing country which both engage in fishing in the same waters. As a result...

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And What About the Family Back Home? International Migration and Happiness

Borraz, Fernando; Pozo, Susan; Rossi, Máximo - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2008

In this study we use data on subjective well being and migration in Cuenca, one of the Ecuador's largest cities. We … examine the impact of migration on the happiness of the family left behind. We use the propensity score matching estimator to … take into account the endogeneity of migration. Our results indicate that migration reduces the happiness of those left …

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Are Remittances a 'Catalyst' for Financial Access? Evidence from Mexico

Ambrosius, Christian - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2011

In policy discussions, it has frequently been claimed that migrants' remittances could function as a 'catalyst' for financial access among receiving households. This paper provides empirical evidence on this hypothesis from Mexico, a main receiver of remittances worldwide. Using the Mexican...

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Competition for the International Pool of Talent: Education Policy and Student Mobility

Krieger, Tim; Haupt, Alexander M.; Lange, Thomas - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2011

The paper presents a model of two countries competing for the international pool of talented students from the rest of the world. To relax tuition-fee competition, countries differentiate their education systems in equilibrium, albeit inefficiently. One country offers high educational quality at...

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Modern Day Slavery: What Drives Human Trafficking in Europe?

Hernandez, Diego; Rudolph, Alexandra - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2011

At a time of increased attention on the international agenda for human trafficking, this paper examines the determinants of human trafficking inflows in to 13 European countries based on official records. By employing a fixed effects zero-inflated, negative binomial gravity-type model, we...

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“Stay with Us”? The Impact of Emigration on Wages in Honduras

Gagnon, Jason - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2010

gap in the migration literature concerning the impact of emigration on sending countries. This paper attempts to narrow …

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Why Don't Labor and Capital Flow Between Young and Old Countries?

an de Meulen, Philipp; Calahorrano, Lena - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2009

To counter the effects of population aging in rich industrialized countries, raising immigration from and raising capital exports to younger developing countries are often seen as alternative solutions. In this paper, we explicitly account for mobility constraints in the form of immigration...

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The Economic Drivers of Human Trafficking: Micro-Evidence from Five Eastern European Countries.

Omar Mahmoud, Toman; Trebesch, Christoph - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2009

argue that migration pressure combined with informal migration patterns and incomplete information are the key determinants …, Moldova, Romania, and Ukraine. The main result is in line with our expectations: Migrant families in high-migration areas and … indicate that illegal migration increases trafficking risks and that awareness campaigns and a reduction of information …

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