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Refugees' and Irregular Migrants' Self-Selection into Europe : Who Migrates Where?
Aksoy, Cevat Giray - 2019
About 1.4 million refugees and irregular migrants arrived in Europe in 2015 and 2016. We model how refugees and … irregular migrants for multiple origin and destination countries. Refugees and female irregular migrants are positively self … irregular migrants are self-selected. Using unique datasets from the International Organization for Migration and Gallup World …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012864933
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The Healthy Immigrant Paradox and Health Convergence
Constant, Amelie F. - 2017
The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental dimensions of any country. Yet it is often the missing statistic in all general statistics, demographics, and presentations about the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744998
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Forced Migration, Staying Minorities, and New Societies : Evidence from Post-War Czechoslovakia
Grossmann, Jakub; Jurajda, Stepan; Roesel, Felix - 2021
How do staying minorities that evade ethnic cleansing integrate into re-settled communities? After World War Two, three million ethnic Germans were expelled from Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland, but some were allowed to stay, many of them left-leaning anti-fascists. We study quasi-experimental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013237228
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Women's Rights and the Gender Migration Gap
Gutmann, Jerg; Marchal, Lea; Simsek, Betül - 2023
derived from a random utility maximization model of migration that accounts for migrants’ gender. Instrumental variable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014262744
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Priming Attitudes Towards Immigrants : Implications for Migration Research and Survey Design
Dylong, Patrick; Setzepfand, Paul; Uebelmesser, Silke - 2023
Using data from two representative and large-scale population surveys with more than 4000 participants, we investigate the effect of randomized priming interventions on attitudes towards immigrants. We document robust null effects of these interventions under two experimental settings, across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014259678
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First Time Around: Local Conditions and Multi-Dimensional Integration of Refugees
Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Poutvaara, Panu; Schikora, Felicitas - 2020
refugees’ multi-dimensional integration outcomes (economic, linguistic, navigational, political, psychological, and social …). Using a unique dataset on refugees, we leverage a centralized allocation policy in Germany where refugees were exogenously … assigned to live in specific counties. We find that high initial local unemployment negatively affects refugees’ economic and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012425653
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Refugees' and Irregular Migrants' Self-Selection into Europe: Who Migrates Where?
Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Poutvaara, Panu - 2019
About 1.4 million refugees and irregular migrants arrived in Europe in 2015 and 2016. We model how refugees and … irregular migrants for multiple origin and destination countries. Refugees and female irregular migrants are positively self … irregular migrants are self-selected. Using unique datasets from the International Organization for Migration and Gallup World …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012052887
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Why Is the Roy-Borjas Model Unable to Predict International Migrant Selection on Education? Evidence from Urban and Rural Mexico
Leopold, Stefan; Ruhose, Jens; Wiederhold, Simon - 2023
The Roy-Borjas model predicts that international migrants are less educated than nonmigrants because the returns to … predictions and empirical evidence can be resolved when the human capital of migrants is assessed using a two-dimensional measure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377562
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Self-Selection in Physical and Mental Health Among Older Intra-European Migrants
Constant, Amelie F. - 2020
European countries and now live elsewhere in Europe. We use the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe and apply …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822692
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International Migration of Couples
Junge, Martin; Munk, Martin D.; Poutvaara, Panu - 2014
We present a theory on migration of dual-earner couples, and test it in the context of international migration. Our model predicts that the probability that a couple emigrates increases in the earnings of the primary earner. The effect of the earnings of the secondary earner may go either way....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398517