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Do Migrants Send Remittances as a Way of Self-Insurance? Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey
Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - 2014
Do migrants send remittances as a way of obtaining insurance? While this motive is theoretically suggested in the literature, the question of identifying this relationship empirically has only begun to be explored. Using a unique representative survey of 1500 immigrants in the Greater Dublin...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532676
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Migration, Risk Attitudes, and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey
Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - 2013
Do more risk loving migrants opt for self-employment? This is a question especially relevant for policy makers designing selective immigration policies in countries of destination. In order to provide a rigorous answer to it, we use a novel vignette-adjusted measure of risk preferences in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532802
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Types of Spatial Mobility and the Ethnic Context of Destination Neighbourhoods in Estonia
Mägi, Kadi - 2016
, intra-urban mobility, suburbanisation, and long-distance migration) for residents of the segregated post-Soviet city of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001871
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Migration, Risk Attitudes, and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey
Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2013
Do more risk loving migrants opt for self-employment? This is a question especially relevant for policy makers designing selective immigration policies in countries of destination. In order to provide a rigorous answer to it, we use a novel vignette-adjusted measure of risk preferences in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010839545
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Do Migrants Send Remittances as a Way of Self-Insurance? Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey
Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2014
Do migrants send remittances as a way of obtaining insurance? While this motive is theoretically suggested in the literature, the question of identifying this relationship empirically has only begun to be explored. Using a unique representative survey of 1500 immigrants in the Greater Dublin...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010895131
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Migrant Remittances and Information Flows: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Batista, Catia; Narciso, Gaia - 2013
Do information flows matter for remittance behavior? We design and implement a randomized control trial to quantitatively assess the role of communication between migrants and their contacts abroad on the extent and value of remittance flows. In the experiment, a random sample of 1,500 migrants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532730
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The Value of H-1B Status in Times of Scarcity
Sparber, Chad - 2015
For-profit firms are limited in their ability to hire new, foreign-born, highly-educated workers after quotas on H-1B work permits are met each year, though they are able to hire existing H-1B workers. Universities and other non-profit research institutions do not face the same restrictions....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532748
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Task Specialization, Immigration, and Wages
Peri, Giovanni; Sparber, Chad - 2008
Many workers with low levels of educational attainment immigrated to the United States in recent decades. Large inflows of less-educated immigrants would reduce wages paid to comparably-educated native-born workers if the two groups are perfectly substitutable in production. In a simple model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532759
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The Short- and Long-Run Determinants of Less- Educated Immigrant Flows into U.S. States
Simpson, Nicole B.; Sparber, Chad - 2012
We use a gravity model of migration and alternative estimation strategies to analyse how income differentials affect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532819
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Can Information and Alternatives to Irregular Migration Reduce "Backway" Migration from The Gambia?
Bah, Tijan; Batista, Catia; Gubert, Flore; McKenzie, David - 2022
Irregular migration from West Africa to Europe across the Sahara and Mediterranean is extremely risky for migrants and … test three approaches to reducing risky migration: providing better information and testimonials about the risks of the … journey, facilitating migration to a safer destination by providing information and assistance for migration to Dakar, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532981