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Emigration Prospects and Educational Choices: Evidence from the Lorraine-Luxembourg Corridor
Beine, Michel; Fromentin, Vincent; Bachiller, Javier … - 2024
An extensive literature has documented the incentive effect of emigration prospects in terms of human capital accumulation in origin countries. Much less attention has been paid to the impact on specific educational choices. We provide some evidence from the behavior of students at the...
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Give Me Your Tired and Your Poor: Impact of a Large-Scale Amnesty Program for Undocumented Refugees
Bahar, Dany; Ibáñez, Ana María; Rozo, Sandra V. - 2020
Between 2014 and 2020 over 1.8 million refugees fled from Venezuela to Colombia as a result of a humanitarian crisis, many of them without a regular migratory status. We study the short- to medium-term labor market impacts in Colombia of the Permiso Temporal de Permanencia program, the largest...
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Knowledge Remittances: Does Emigration Foster Innovation?
Fackler, Thomas; Giesing, Yvonne; Laurentsyeva, Nadzeya - 2018
? Combining industry-level patenting and migration data from 32 European countries, we show that emigration in fact positively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018111
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Comfort and Conformity: A Culture-based Theory of Migration
Berlinschi, Ruxanda; Fidrmuc, Jan - 2018
This paper proposes a theory of migration decisions in which cultural traits play a role. Individuals are assumed to … diverse regions become even more diverse because of migration, while culturally homogeneous regions become even more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011932044
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The influence of labor taxes on the migration of skilled workers
Egger, Peter; Radulescu, Doina Maria - 2008
This paper investigates empirically the role of taxes on labor for the stock of expatriates and the migration flows of … to see to what extent labour income taxes and social security contributions determine migration flows. We collect data on … tax variables to estimate their effect on bilateral stocks of expatriates into OECD countries and the migration of skilled …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264487
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Guest-worker migration, human capital and fertility
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2011
This work focuses on a temporary guest-worker-type migration of individuals from the middle class of the wealth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274747
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Integration, mobility, and human capital formation
Haupt, Alexander; Uebelmesser, Silke - 2010
In this note, we show that labour market integration can be a double-edged sword. In the presence of local human capital externalities, integration and the ensuing agglomeration of skilled labour can cause a decline in human capital and the total wage sum (net of education costs). In particular,...
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Confined to Stay: Natural Disasters and Indonesia's Migration Ban
Cinque, Andrea; Reiners, Lennart - 2022
This paper investigates the effects of international migration restrictions on communities' capacity to absorb income … migration as an adaptive strategy. Relying on a panel of the universe of Indonesian villages, we use a triple difference …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013353449
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A Macro-level Analysis of Adult-age Language Learning
Uebelmesser, Silke; Weingarten, Severin - 2017
This article investigates the macro-level drivers of adult-age language learning. We construct a new dataset that covers German language learning in 77 countries (including Germany) for 1992-2006. Fixed-effects regressions show that language learning in the EU is strongly associated with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011698678
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Migration, social standards and replacement incomes : how to protect low-income workers in the industrialized countries against the forces of globalization and market integration
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2004
replacement incomes implies migration into unemployment. Defending wages with replacement incomes brings about first …) exclusion of migrants from a national subsidy program makes it possible to avoid a distortion of the migration pattern. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261251