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International migration not only enables individuals to earn higher wages but also exposes them to new environments … caregivers in migrant households. Estimates for Moldova show that international migration raises parental aspirations in … shocks in the destination countries and migration networks. These results imply that aspirations are a highly relevant …
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. However, migration also changes relative wages, alters the distribution of skills and affects equality in the receiving …
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Does increasing a state’s minimum wage induce migration into the state? Previous literature has shown mobility in …
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Migration is often viewed as an investment decision. Temporary migrants can be expected to invest less in accumulating …
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Do more risk loving migrants opt for self-employment? We use a novel vignette-adjusted measure of risk preferences to investigate the link between risk aversion and entrepreneurship in migrant communities. Using an original representative household survey of the migrant population in the Greater...
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after about ten years after the peak of migration wave. …
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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...
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The economic consequences of migration are hotly debated and a main topic of recent populist movements across Europe … identification, we exploit a historical episode in the Polish migration history to Germany before the fall of the Iron Curtain and … construct a shift-share instrument. Our results differ from findings for high-skilled migration to the United States, which is …
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Do electoral incentives affect immigration policies? I study this question in the setting of Italian municipalities making decisions about the reception of refugees. The localized control of the reception policy (SPRAR), combined with the exogenous timing of policy decisions and staggered...
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local skill share and that both skill acquisition and migration play a role. We develop and quantify a spatial equilibrium … migration linkages between cities. Counterfactual experiments suggest that the growth in capital goods imports in China between …
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