Similar Search Results

Why go to France or Germany, if you could as well go to the UK or the US?: selective features of immigration to four major OECD countries

Geis, Wido; Uebelmesser, Silke; Werding, Martin - 2008

different destination countries. Focusing on migration between the four countries in our data set, we find that migration within …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264459

How do migrants choose their destination country?: an analysis of institutional determinants

Geis, Wido; Uebelmesser, Silke; Werding, Martin - 2008

For a long time, migration has been subject to intensive economic research. Nevertheless, empirical evidence regarding … the determinants of migration still appears to be incomplete. In this paper, we analyze the effects of socio-economic and … and unemployment benefits have positive effects on migration. Also good education and health systems tend to attract …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264522

Student flows and migration : an empirical analysis

Dreher, Axel; Poutvaara, Panu - 2005

migration there over the period 1971-2001. What we find is that the stock of foreign students is an important predictor of … subsequent migration. This holds true whether or not the lagged endogenous variable is included. The relationship is robust to …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261293

Not welcome anymore : the effect of electoral incentives on the reception of refugees

Gamalerio, Matteo - 2018

Do electoral incentives affect immigration policies? I study this question in the setting of Italian municipalities making decisions about the reception of refugees. The localized control of the reception policy (SPRAR), combined with the exogenous timing of policy decisions and staggered...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011898665

Individual attitudes towards immigrants: welfare-state determinants across countries

Facchini, Giovanni; Mayda, Anna Maria - 2006

relationships have the opposite signs in economies characterized by skilled migration (relative to the native population). Such …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263954

Loss of Peers and Individual Worker Performance: Evidence from H-1B Visa Denials

Choudhury, Prithwiraj; Doran, Kirk; Marinoni, Astrid; … - 2022

We study how restrictive immigration policies and the unexpected loss of peers affect the performance of skilled migrants, exploiting the unexpected increased denials of H-1B visa extensions in the United States beginning in 2017. We find that employees who lost peers of the same ethnic...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014290062

How do migrants choose their destination country? : an analysis of institutional determinants

Geis, Wido; Übelmesser, Silke; Werding, Martin - 2008

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003805994

Politics, unemployment, and the enforcement of immigration law

Makowsky, Michael D.; Stratmann, Thomas - 2012

Immigration control-related audits and their resulting sanctions are not solely determined by impartial enforcement of laws and regulations. They are also determined by the incentives faced by vote-maximizing congressmen, agents acting on their behalf, and workers likely to compete with...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009533971

Immigrants and gender roles : assimilation vs. culture

Blau, Francine D. - 2015

This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women’s behavior in the United States - looking both over time with immigrants' residence in the United States and across immigrant generations. It focuses particularly on labor...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011392486

Immigration and the distribution of incomes

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2013

Immigration may impact income distribution both by affecting the skill composition of a country's residents, and, by changing relative factor supplies, its relative factor prices. We provide some background evidence on compositional factors but focus primarily on factor prices. We first consider...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010227178