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Brain Drain and LDCs' Growth: Winners and Losers
Beine, Michel; Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel - 2002
recent US data on migration rates by education levels (Carrington and Detragiache, 1998), we find empirical support for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013204721
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Network Effects in International Migration: Education versus Gender
Beine, Michel; Salomone, Sara - Centre de Recherche en Économie Appliquée (CREA), … - 2011
This paper analyzes the impact of networks on the structure of international migration flows. In particular, we … the preceding literature on macro determinants of international migration, we can identify the factors that influence the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009148061
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Dissecting Network Externalities in International Migration
Beine, Michel; Docquier, Frédéric; Özden, Caglar - Centre de Recherche en Économie Appliquée (CREA), … - 2011
the net benefits of migration by reduc- ing assimilation costs (’self-selection channel’) and by lowering legal entry … elasticity of migration flows to network size is around one. Second, only a quarter of this elasticity is accounted for by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009151337
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Recent trends in the earnings of new immigrants to the United States
Borjas, George J.; Friedberg, Rachel M. - 2009
This paper studies long-term trends in the labor market performance of immigrants in the United States, using the 1960-2000 PUMS and 1994-2009 CPS. While there was a continuous decline in the earnings of new immigrants 1960-1990, the trend reversed in the 1990s, with newcomers doing as well in...
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