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) have been studied extensively, AD has not. I examine migration's impact on ability (a), education (h), and productive human …, and b) the 'vetting' system (VS) which accounts for s (e.g., US H-1B program). Findings are: i) Migration reduces (raises …
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cities can mitigate these adverse mental health effects. Using a unique longitudinal survey data of Rural-to-Urban Migration …
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Does anti-migration sentiment threaten internationalization? One major pro-Brexit argument was that it would enable … more control over immigration. The most recent US presidential election also focused on immigration. Anti-migration … migration-trade nexus, there are few examples of policymakers highlighting the role of migration for internationalization. One …
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Do migrants send remittances as a way of obtaining insurance? While this motive is theoretically suggested in the literature, the question of identifying this relationship empirically has only begun to be explored. Using a unique representative survey of 1500 immigrants in the Greater Dublin...
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Two of the most salient trends surrounding the issue of migration and development over the last two decades are the … large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross …-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit less, leading to concerns that further increases in skilled migration …
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migration pressure, and in disappointment amongst those who do migrate. Yet there is almost no statistical evidence on how … migration destination. Our procedure enables us to obtain moments and quantiles of the subjective distribution of expected …
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Migration has long been considered one of the key mechanisms through which labor markets adjust to economic shocks. In … this paper, we analyze the migration response of American workers to two of the most important shocks that hit US … for the different migration responses triggered by the two shocks. Next, we present a model where workers are …
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Do more risk loving migrants opt for self-employment? This is a question especially relevant for policy makers designing selective immigration policies in countries of destination. In order to provide a rigorous answer to it, we use a novel vignette-adjusted measure of risk preferences in the...
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This paper examines the impact of migration on educational attainments in rural Mexico. Using historical migration … rates by state to instrument for current migration, we find evidence of a significant negative effect of migration on … completing high-school. The negative effect of migration on schooling is somewhat mitigated for younger girls with low educated …
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-selective. These predictions are then tested empirically using bilateral remittance and migration data and proxy measures for the …
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