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This paper examines the impact of Brexit on international student migration. In a structural gravity model, we estimate … student migration between 69 countries for counterfactual scenarios in which the United Kingdom leaves the European Union one …
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their best and brightest vary substantially. The migration of skilled workers across countries tilts the deck even further … implications. Third, we review the national gatekeepers for skilled migration and broad differences in approaches used to select …
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This paper quantitatively investigates the short- and long-run effects of liberalizing global migration on the world … distribution of income. We develop and parametrize a dynamic model of the world economy with endogenous migration, fertility and … education decisions. We identify bilateral migration costs and their legal component for each pair of countries and two classes …
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productivity shifts arising from migration-induced knowledge diffusion and increased workforce diversity. While we find evidence …
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migrant selection. We analyze bilateral country-level education-specific migration stocks from 85 sending countries to the 15 … migration for low-skilled migrants. Results are robust to the inclusion of sending and destination country fixed effects …
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migration on the shape and magnitude of redistribution policies that are determined in a political economy equilibrium; at the … same time, we address the question whether the level of migration, when not restricted, is higher or lower in this welfare …
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This study shows that the relative size of the youth bulge matters for how corruption affects the internal stability of a political system. We argue that corruption cannot buy political stability (e.g., the greasing hypothesis) in countries with a relatively large youth population. Using panel...
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This paper studies the effect of emigration on gender norms in countries of migrants' origin. We use an instrumental variable strategy that allows us to estimate a causal effect of emigration on gender inequality. Our findings suggest that emigration to countries with low (high) levels of gender...
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, and international migration by asylum seekers. A priori generalized trust can be expected to have an ambiguous effect on … migration. On the one hand, countries with higher trust may exhibit higher adaptive capacity to temperature fluctuations and so … lower climate-induced migration. On the other hand, trust may also facilitate migration by increasing the likelihood that …
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We examine both theoretically and empirically how migration affects cultural change in home and host countries. Our … theoretical model integrates various compositional and cultural transmission mechanisms of migration-based cultural change for …
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