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in the immigration flows from different countries, sampling error, and the effects of emigration – is fundamentally …
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The impacts of international migration on development in the sending countries, and especially the effects on remaining …
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Italy is a country with a long history of emigration and a very short experience of immigration. The paper first … surveys the Italian emigration pattern describing the characteristics of the Italian emigrants (age, sex, skill level), their … the policies affecting the decision to migrate. The end of the first section provides an analysis of the emigration …
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development. This paper presents empirical evidence on immigration flows into 27 OECD countries during a period of 11 years, 1990 …
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Two of the main forces driving European emigration in the late nineteenth century were real wage gaps between sending … there is a demographic speed up in the making. Our estimates suggest that the pressure on emigration out of Africa will …
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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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Many empirical studies on the determinants of international migration flows rely exclusively on macro data, and do not account for migrants' self-selection. We analyze a very interesting episode in international migration for which we are able to gather individual-level data covering all...
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In deliberating whether to pursue an undergraduate education in the US, a foreign student takes into consideration the expected probability of securing US employment after graduation. The H-1B visa provides a primary means of legal employment for college-educated foreign-nationals. In October...
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The scale of international migration flows depends on moving costs that are, in turn, influenced by host-country policies and by the size of migrant networks at destination. This paper estimates the influence of visa policies and networks upon bilateral migration flows to multiple destinations....
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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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