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Remittances, Migrants' Education and Immigration Policy: Theory and Evidence from Bilateral Data

Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel; Salomone, Sara - 2011

-selective. These predictions are then tested empirically using bilateral remittance and migration data and proxy measures for the …

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Brain Drain and Inequality Across Nations

Docquier, Frédéric - 2006

origin countries, it also induces positive effects through various channels such as remittances, return migration, diaspora … praise the unambiguous benefits of unskilled migration for developing countries, my analysis suggests that a limited but …

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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 …

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Remittances, Migrants' Education and Immigration Policy: Theory and Evidence from Bilateral Data

Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel; Salomone, Sara - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2011

-selective. These predictions are then tested empirically using bilateral remittance and migration data and proxy measures for the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009358645

Remittances and inequality: A dynamic migration model

Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel; Shen, I-Ling - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2006

We develop a model to study the effects of migration and remittances on inequality in the origin communities. While … inequality may be of opposite signs, suggesting that the dynamic relationship between migration/remittances and inequality may … offers a different interpretation from the usually assumed migration network effects. With no need to endogenize migration …

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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....

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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...

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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 …

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Building a Better H-1B Program

Sparber, Chad - 2015

The H-1B program allows highly-educated foreign-born labor to temporarily work in the United States. Quotas restrict the number of labor force entrants, however. In many years, all available work permits were allocated by random lottery. This paper argues that an alternative distribution method...

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Highly-Educated Immigrants and Native Occupational Choice

Peri, Giovanni; Sparber, Chad - 2008

Economic debate about the consequences of immigration in the US has largely focused on how influxes of foreign-born labor with little educational attainment have affected similarly-educated native-born workers. Fewer studies analyze the effect of immigration within the market for highly-educated...

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