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Do natural hazards cause international migration?
Gröschl, Jasmin Katrin; Steinwachs, Thomas - 2016
The estimated amount of people affected by natural hazards stands at a staggering number of about 243 million people per year. While not all of the affected move across borders, international migration potentially provides an adaptation mechanism to natural hazards. The aim of this paper is to...
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Migration and networks : does education matter more than gender?
Beine, Michel; Salomone, Sara - 2010
This paper looks at the impact of networks on international migration flows to OECD countries. In particular, we look at whether diaspora effects are different across education levels and gender. Using new data allowing to include both dimensions, we are able to analyze the respective impact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003956018
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The social integration of international migrants: evidence from the networks of Syrians in Germany
Bailey, Michael; Johnston, Drew M.; Koenen, Martin; … - 2022
We use de-identified data from Facebook to study the social integration of Syrian migrants in Germany, a country that received a large influx of refugees during the Syrian Civil War. We construct measures of migrants’ social integration based on Syrians’ friendship links to Germans, their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013174171
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A crook is a crook ... but is he still a crook abroad? : on the effect of immigration on destination-country corruption
Dimant, Eugen; Krieger, Tim; Redlin, Margarete - 2014
dataset consisting of annual immigration stocks of OECD countries from 207 countries of origin for the period 1984 - 2008, we … find that while general migration has an insignificant effect on the destination country's corruption level, immigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010417973
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International migration of skilled workers with endogenous policies
Djajić, Slobodan; Michael, Michael S. - 2014
We study the interaction between the optimal immigration policy of a host country and education policy of a source … country, and attitudes to immigration in the host country. Of key interest are the implications for the optimal spending on … education in the source country and the optimal immigration quota of the host country. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010342483
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The healthy immigrant paradox and health convergence
Constant, Amelie - 2017
the host countries. Through a general literature review and examination of specific immigration countries, we provide …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011735974
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Diasporas
Beine, Michel; Docquier, Frédéric; Özden, Çağlar - 2009
Migration flows are shaped by a complex combination of self-selection and out-selection mechanisms. In this paper, we analyze how existing diasporas (the stock of people born in a country and living in an another one) affect the size and human-capital structure of current migration flows. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003824981
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The determinants of international mobility of students
Beine, Michel; Noël, Romain; Ragot, Lionel - 2012
This paper analyzes the determinants of the choice of location of international students. Building on the documented trends in international migration of students, we develop a small theoretical model allowing to identify the various factors associated to the attraction of migrants as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009570697
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Aggregate fluctuations and international migration
Beine, Michel; Bourgeon, Pauline; Bricongne, Jean-Charles - 2013
Traditional theories of integration such as the optimum currency area approach attribute a prominent role to international labour mobility in coping with relative economic fluctuations between countries. However, recent studies on international migration have overlooked the role of short-run...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009791652
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Brexit and foreign students in gravity
Davies, Ronald B.; Specht, Lena S. - 2024
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 year before the referendum. This exercise reveals...
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