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Female Migration : A Way Out of Discrimination
Ruyssen, Ilse - 2015
be explained by perceived gender discrimination. Thanks to unique individual level data, we track women's willingness and … preparation to emigrate from 150 countries between 2009-2013 and disentangle how perceived gender discrimination can foster or … to both sample selection bias and potential endogeneity issues. Perceived gender discrimination is shown to form a strong …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013011648
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Genetic Distance and International Migrant Selection
Krieger, Tim - 2015
This paper looks at the effect of the relatedness of two countries, measured by their genetic distance, on educational migrant selection. We analyze bilateral country-level education-specific migration stocks from 85 sending countries to the 15 main destination countries in 2000 and show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013018280
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High-Skilled Migration and Agglomeration
Kerr, Sari Pekkala - 2017
This paper reviews recent research regarding high-skilled migration. We adopt a data-driven perspective, bringing together and describing several ongoing research streams that range from the construction of global migration databases, to the legal codification of national policies regarding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964619
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Global Talent Flows
Kerr, Sari Pekkala - 2017
The global distribution of talent is highly skewed and the resources available to countries to develop and utilize their best and brightest vary substantially. The migration of skilled workers across countries tilts the deck even further. Using newly available data, we first review the landscape...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965941
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International Family Migration and the Dual-Earner Model
Munk, Martin - 2017
Gender differences in labor force participation are exceptionally small in Nordic countries. We investigate how couples … which both partners work, when abroad. Female labor force participation is slightly lower among couples that later emigrate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960102
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International Migration of Couples
Junge, Martin - 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/10013048881
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Diasporas
Beine, Michel A. R. - 2009
Migration flows are shaped by a complex combination of self-selection and out-selection mechanisms. In this paper, we analyze how existing diasporas (the stock of people born in a country and living in an another one) affect the size and human-capital structure of current migration flows. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012763995
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Gender Differences in Experimental Wage Negotiations
Dittrich, Marcus - 2012
We examine behavioral gender differences and gender pairing effects in a laboratory experiment with face … than female employers pay to male employees. Moreover, we find gender differences in the first offers of the bargaining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104251
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I (Don't) Like You! But Who Cares? Gender Differences in Same Sex and Mixed Sex Teams
Gerhards, Leonie - 2017
on gender differences in labor market outcomes: mutual dislikability impedes team behavior, except in all-male teams …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012952473
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Gender Differences in Strategic Reasoning
Dittrich, Marcus; Leipold, Kristina - 2021
This paper studies gender differences in strategic situations. In two experimental guessing games - the beauty contest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315607