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Learning from the origins
Yarkin, Alexander - 2023
abroad. Local diasporas, social media, and family ties to the origins facilitate the transmission, while social integration …
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First time around : local conditions and multi-dimensional integration of refugees
Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Poutvaara, Panu; Schikora, Felicitas - 2020
refugees' multi-dimensional integration outcomes (economic, linguistic, navigational, political, psychological, and social … social integration: they are less likely to be in education or employment and they earn less. We also show that favorable … attitudes towards immigrants promote refugees' economic and social integration. The results suggest that attitudes toward …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012383742
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Forced migration, staying minorities, and new societies : evidence from post-war Czechoslovakia
Grossmann, Jakub; Jurajda, Štěpán; Rösel, Felix - 2021
How do staying minorities that evade ethnic cleansing integrate into re-settled communities? After World War Two, three million ethnic Germans were expelled from Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland, but some were allowed to stay, many of them left-leaning anti-fascists. We study quasi-experimental...
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Genetic distance and international migrant selection
Krieger, Tim; Renner, Laura; Ruhose, Jens - 2015 - This version: July 2015
This paper looks at the effect of the relatedness of two countries, measured by their genetic distance, on educational migrant selection. We analyze bilateral country-level education-specific migration stocks from 85 sending countries to the 15 main destination countries in 2000 and show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011300374
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009791652
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011551039
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International migration, income taxes and transfers : a welfare analysis
Michael, Michael S. - 2002
An important issue in public policy debates is the effect of international migration on welfare in source and host countries. We address this issue by constructing a general equilibrium model of a two-class source or host country. Each country produces many traded and non-traded goods, uses...
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Two-way migration between similar countries
Kreickemeier, Udo; Wrona, Jens - 2015
We develop a model to explain two-way migration of high-skilled individuals between countries that are similar in their economic characteristics. High-skilled migration results from the combination of workers whose abilities are private knowledge, and a production technology that gives...
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Immigrants as future voters
Hillman, Arye L.; Long, Ngo Van - 2021
Immigration policies in western democracies have often been contrary to the policies predicted by the mainstream theory of international economics. In particular, political parties that, according to economic theory, should adopt policies beneficial for lower-income voter-constituencies, have...
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How residence permits affect the labor market attachment of foreign workers : evidence from a migration lottery in Liechtenstein
Buechel, Berno; Gangl, Selina; Huber, Martin - 2021
We analyze the impact of obtaining a residence permit on foreign workers' labor market and residential attachment. To overcome the usually severe selection issues, we exploit a unique migration lottery that randomly assigns access to residence permits for workers with an employment contract in...
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