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The paper reviews recent literature on the economics of migration and diasporas, focusing on economic gains and …
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remittances into account. Moreover, we find that marginal propensity to save for immigrants is about 40% higher than that for … naturalization has caused significant reductions of savings and remittances for immigrants as a whole, in the magnitude of 13% and 29 …
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households to examine the joint effect of migration and remittances on economic development. We apply the model to internal … migration in China. Counterfactual analysis of the calibrated model shows that the presence of remittances increases migration …We develop a quantitative spatial equilibrium model with endogenous migration and remittance decisions within …
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the provided evidence we argue that this effect is channelled through "cultural remittances". …
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? Combining industry-level patenting and migration data from 32 European countries, we show that emigration in fact positively …
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matching between the existing demand and the Ph.D. holders' specialization. The aim of this paper is to test whether migrating … from some regions may improve job-education matching in Italy. The econometric strategy takes into account Ph.D. holders …' selfselection into non-academic employment as well as the endogeneity of the migration choice. Results demonstrate that migration …
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productivity shifts arising from migration-induced knowledge diffusion and increased workforce diversity. While we find evidence …
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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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therefore have a systematic influence on election results. Using administrative migration and voting data, we show that counties … border and to airports to account for endogenous migration patterns. Results are robust to estimations using first …
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