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A land of milk and honey with streets paved with gold: Do emigrants have over-optimistic expectations about incomes abroad?
McKenzie, David; Gibson, John; Stillman, Steven - 2007
migration pressure, and in disappointment amongst those who do migrate. Yet there is almost no statistical evidence on how … migration destination. Our procedure enables us to obtain moments and quantiles of the subjective distribution of expected …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532721
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Natural Experiment Evidence on the Effect of Migration on Blood Pressure and Hypertension
Gibson, John; Stillman, Steven; McKenzie, David; … - 2010
to where wages are higher. But the effect of this migration on health is less clear and existing evidence is ambiguous … unsuccessful applicants to a migration lottery to experimentally estimate the impact of migration on measured blood pressure and … to migration. We use various econometric estimators to form bounds on the treatment effects since there appears to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532862
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The Labour Market Impact of Immigration
Dustmann, Christian; Glitz, Albrecht; Frattini, Tommaso - 2008
In the first part of this paper, we present a stylised model of the labour market impact of immigration. We then discuss mechanisms through which an economy can adjust to immigration: changes in factor prices, output mix and production technology. In the second part, we explain the problems of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533050
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Pulls of International Student Mobility
Kahanec, Martin - 2012
Economic theory suggests that high-skilled immigration generally has positive effects on the receiving economy. International student mobility is an important channel through which high-skilled immigrants arrive. The purpose of this paper is to identify some of the key determinants of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013113075
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Natural Experiment Evidence on the Effect of Migration on Blood Pressure and Hypertension
Gibson, John; Stillman, Steven; McKenzie, David Mckenzie; … - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2010
to where wages are higher. But the effect of this migration on health is less clear and existing evidence is ambiguous … unsuccessful applicants to a migration lottery to experimentally estimate the impact of migration on measured blood pressure and … to migration. We use various econometric estimators to form bounds on the treatment effects since there appears to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009317963
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The Labour Market Impact of Immigration
dustmann, christian; Glitz, Albrecht; Frattini, Tommaso - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2008
In the first part of this paper, we present a stylised model of the labour market impact of immigration. We then discuss mechanisms through which an economy can adjust to immigration: changes in factor prices, output mix and production technology. In the second part, we explain the problems of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004967949
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A land of milk and honey with streets paved with gold: Do emigrants have over-optimistic expectations about incomes abroad?
McKenzie, David Mckenzie; Gibson, John; Stillman, Steven - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2007
migration pressure, and in disappointment amongst those who do migrate. Yet there is almost no statistical evidence on how … migration destination. Our procedure enables us to obtain moments and quantiles of the subjective distribution of expected …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004977230
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How Immigrants Helped EU Labor Markets to Adjust during the Great Recession
Kahanec, Martin; Guzi, Martin - 2017
with high-skilled immigrants with relatively few (1-5) or many (11+) years since migration. The relative responsiveness of … migration), whereas other groups of immigrants became particularly fluid during the Great Recession, such as those from new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011619442
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The Economic Impact of East-West Migration on the European Union
Kahanec, Martin; Pytliková, Mariola - 2017
This study contributes to the literature on destination-country consequences of international migration with … member states over the years 1995-2010. Using a rich international migration dataset and an empirical model accounting for … the endogeneity of migration flows we find positive and significant effects of post-enlargement migration flows from new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011628540
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The Microeconomic Determinants of Emigration and Return Migration of the Best and Brightest: Evidence from the Pacific
Gibson, John; McKenzie, David - 2009
to assess the extent of emigration and return migration among the very highly skilled, and to analyze, at the … microeconomic level, the determinants of these migration choices. Although we estimate that the income gains from migration are very … different countries. Overall the data show a relatively limited role for income maximization in distinguishing migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532673