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Migration, the quality of the labour force and economic inequality

Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2008

Mobility of workers involves flows of labour, human capital and other production factors and thus contributes to a more efficient allocation of resources. Besides these effects on allocative efficiency, migrant flows affect relative wages and also change the international and national...

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Brainy Africans to fortress Europe: For money or colonial vestiges?

Constant, Amelie F.; 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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Managing Migration Through Conflicting Policies : An Option-Theory Perspective

Moretto, Michele - 2009

Recent European legislation on immigration has revealed a particular paradox on migration policies. On the one hand, the trend of recent legislation points to the increasing closure of frontiers (OECD 1999, 2001,2004), trying to limit the immigrants' stock. On the other hand, there is an...

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Drawbridges Down : Altruism and Immigration Preferences

Hansen, Ole-Petter; Legge, Stefan - 2021

This paper advances and empirically establishes the idea that altruism is an important determinant of individual preferences over immigration. Using data from the European Social Survey from 2014 and 2015, our results document that individual norms and values strongly shape preferences over...

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Dutch Disease and the Mitigation Effect of Migration : Evidence from Canadian Provinces

Beine, Michel A. R.; Coulombe, Serge; Vermeulen, Wessel - 2021

This paper looks at whether immigration can mitigate the Dutch disease effects associated with booms in natural resource sectors. We first derive predicted changes in the size of the non-tradable sector from a small general-equilibrium model à la Obstfeld-Rogoff, supplemented by a resource...

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Skill, Innovation and Wage Inequality : Can Immigrants Be the Trump Card?

Das, Gouranga Gopal - 2018

With the ensuing immigration reform in the US, the paper shows that targeted skilled immigration into the R&D sector that helps low-skilled labor is conducive for controlling inequality and raising wage. Skilled talent-led innovation could have spillover benefits for the unskilled sector while...

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Where do the brainy Italians go?

Constant, Amelie F.; D'Agosto, Elena - 2008

This paper studies the major determinants that affect the country choice of the talented Italian scientists and researchers who have at least a bachelor's from Italy and live abroad. There are three alternative country choices: the US/Canada, the UK, and other EU countries. On average, the...

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The Dynamics of Repeat Migration : A Markov Chain Analysis

Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Constant, Amelie F. - 2003

While the literature has established that there is substantial and highly selective return migration, the growing importance of repeat migration has been largely ignored. Using Markov chain analysis, this paper provides a modeling framework for repeated moves of migrants between the host and...

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Circular Movements And Time Away From The Host Country

Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Constant, Amelie F. - 2003

The economic literature has largely overlooked the importance of repeat migration. This paper studies repeat or circular migration as it is manifested by the frequency of exits of migrants living in Germany, and by the number of years being away from the host country using count data models....

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Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance, and Self-Employment Proclivity: A Bi-National Study of Immigrants

Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2006

There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labor force, and the potential policy responses. This paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success....

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