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Immigration and the work force : economic consequences for the United States and source areas

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Network Effects in International Migration: Education versus Gender

Beine, Michel; Salomone, Sara - Centre de Recherche en Économie Appliquée (CREA), … - 2011

This paper analyzes the impact of networks on the structure of international migration flows. In particular, we … the preceding literature on macro determinants of international migration, we can identify the factors that influence the …

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Dissecting Network Externalities in International Migration

Beine, Michel; Docquier, Frédéric; Özden, Caglar - Centre de Recherche en Économie Appliquée (CREA), … - 2011

the net benefits of migration by reduc- ing assimilation costs (’self-selection channel’) and by lowering legal entry … elasticity of migration flows to network size is around one. Second, only a quarter of this elasticity is accounted for by the …

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Immigration and the Work Force : Economic Consequences for the United States and Source Areas

Borjas, George J. - 2007

Since the 1970s, the striking increase in immigration to the United States has been accompanied by a marked change in the composition of the immigrant community, with a much higher percentage of foreign-born workers coming from Latin America and Asia and a dramatically lower percentage from...

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