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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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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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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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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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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
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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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Referral-based Job Search Networks
Dustmann, Christian; Glitz, Albrecht; Schönberg, Uta - 2011
This paper develops a model and derives novel testable implications of referral-based job search networks in which employees provide employers with information about potential job market candidates that they otherwise would not have. Using unique matched employeremployee data that cover the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532756
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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