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Happy moves? : assessing the link between life satisfaction and emigration intentions
Ivlevs, Artjoms - 2015
life satisfaction and emigration intentions: it is the most and the least life-satisfied people who are the most likely to … express intentions to emigrate. This result is found in countries with different levels of economic development and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010515268
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From stocks to flows - evidence for the climate-migration-nexus
Berlemann, Michael; Haustein, Erik; Steinhardt, Max … - 2021
Slow onset climate change has the potential to cause significant migration flows. Scientists have recently made considerable efforts to quantify these flows based on empirical methods. However, the literature on international migration has failed to come to a clear conclusion as many studies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550033
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Determinants of international migration : empirical evidence for migration from developing countries to Germany
Rotte, Ralph; Vogler, Michael - 1998
trade, development and migration. Empirical studies focusing on international migration from LDCs so far are very scarce … economic differential between countries for migration, the existence of an inverse u-shaped relationship between development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011294528
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Global earnings inequality, 1970-2015
Hammar, Olle; Waldenström, Daniel - 2017
We estimate trends in global earnings dispersion across occupational groups using a new database covering 66 developed and developing countries between 1970 and 2015. Our main finding is that global earnings inequality has declined, primarily during the 2000s, when the global Gini coefficient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011647672
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Does educational mismatch affect emigration behaviour?
Wanner, Philippe; Pecoraro, Marco; Tani, Massimiliano - 2021
the labour market and emigration decisions, carrying out the analysis for both Swiss native and previous immigrant workers … undereducation is positively associated with the probability of emigration and return to the country of origin. In contrast, the … reverse relationship is found between overeducation and emigration, especially among non-European immigrant workers. According …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012589903
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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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Earnings over the lifecycle : the Mincer earnings function and its applications
Polachek, Solomon W. (contributor) - 2007
In 1958 Jacob Mincer pioneered an important approach to understand how earnings are distributed across the population. In the years since Mincer's seminal work, he as well as his students and colleagues extended the original human capital model, reaching important conclusions about a whole array...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003586565
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Financial liberalization and the brain drain : a panel data analysis
Mitra, Aniruddha; Bang, James T.; Wunnava, Phanindra V. - 2011
emigration of high skilled labor and the effect is not statistically significant. Further, the impact of improved financial … impact on skilled emigration. -- financial liberalization ; brain drain ; institutions ; immigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009380417
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Gender, educational attainment, and the impact of parental migration on children left behind
Antman, Francisca M. - 2012
Estimation of the causal effect of parental migration on children's educational attainment is complicated by the fact that migrants and non-migrants are likely to differ in unobservable ways that also affect children's educational outcomes. This paper suggests a novel way of addressing this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009548641
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Bounding the price equivalent of migration barriers
Clemens, Michael A.; Montenegro, Claudio; Pritchett, Lant - 2016
Large international differences in the price of labor can be sustained by differences between workers, or by natural and policy barriers to worker mobility. We use migrant selection theory and evidence to place lower bounds on the ad valorem equivalent of labor mobility barriers to the United...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011454010