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Crossing the border : self-selection, earnings and individual migration decisions
Bertoli, Simone; Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Jesús; … - 2010
Many empirical studies on the determinants of international migration flows rely exclusively on macro data, and do not account for migrants' self-selection. We analyze a very interesting episode in international migration for which we are able to gather individual-level data covering all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003966975
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The effects of immigration in a developing country : Brazil in the age of mass migration
Escamilla-Guerrero, David; Papadia, Andrea; Zimran, Ariell - 2024
The effects of immigration are reasonably well understood in developed countries, but they are far more poorly understood in developing ones despite the importance of these countries as immigrant destinations. We address this shortcoming by studying the effects of immigration to Brazil during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014463122
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The elusive concept of immigrant quality : evidence from 1970-1990
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Regets, Mark C. - 2002
in the immigration flows from different countries, sampling error, and the effects of emigration - is fundamentally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414835
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The impacts of international migration on remaining household members : omnibus results from a migration lottery program
Gibson, John K.; McKenzie, David J.; Stillman, Steven - 2009
The impacts of international migration on development in the sending countries, and especially the effects on remaining …, leading studies which fail to adequately address them to misrepresent the impact of migration. -- Emigration ; natural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003894458
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The effects of school quality in the origin on the payoff to schooling for immigrants
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2010
The payoff to schooling among the foreign born in the US is only around one-half of the payoff for the native born. This paper examines whether this differential is related to the quality of the schooling immigrants acquired abroad. The paper uses the Over-education/ Required...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008688727
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The labor market effects of immigration and emigration in OECD countries
Docquier, Frédéric; Özden, Çağlar; Peri, Giovanni - 2011
In this paper, we simulate the labor market effects of net immigration and emigration during the 1990's in all OECD … wage effects of immigration and emigration. We use a range of parameter values spanning most of the estimates in the …, emigration had a negative effect on the wage of less educated native workers and it contributed to increase within country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009524983
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The labor demand was downward sloping : disentangling migrants' inflows and outflows, 1929 - 1957
Biavaschi, Costanza - 2012
This paper studies in- and out-migration from the U.S. during the first half of the twentieth century and assesses how these flows affected state-level labor markets. It shows that out-migration positively impacted the wages of remaining workers, while in-migration had a negative impact. Hence,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009675513
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Immigration policies and the ecuadorian exodus
Bertoli, Simone; Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Jesús; … - 2010
Ecuador experienced an unprecedented wave of international migration since the late 1990s, triggered by a severe economic and financial crisis. This paper gathers individual-level data from Ecuador and the two main destinations of Ecuadorian migrants: the US and Spain. First, we provide a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003938999
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Who leaves and who returns? : Deciphering immigrant self-selection from a developing country
Akee, Randall (contributor) - 2007
Existing research examining the self-selection of immigrants suffers from a lack of information on the immigrants' labor force activities in the home country, quotas limiting who is allowed to enter the destination country, and non-economic factors such as internal civil strife in the home...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003656897
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Brainy Africans to fortress Europe : for money or colonial vestiges?
Constant, Amelie; Tien, Bienvenue N. - 2009
model and empirically tests the hypothesis that ex-colonial links can still play an important role in the emigration … by sub-regions, the magnitude of the colonial vestige in Africa is a significant determinant of emigration flows. Overall … living with job opportunities in the host country are also very important drivers of the emigration of brainy Africans to the …
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