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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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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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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 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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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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Miserable Migrants? Natural Experiment Evidence on International Migration and Objective and Subjective Well-Being
Stillman, Steven; Gibson, John; McKenzie, David; … - 2012
well-being by moving to where incomes are higher. But effects of migration on subjective well-being are less clear, with … migration lottery in order to experimentally estimate the impact of migration on objective and subjective well-being. The … results show that international migration brings large improvements in objective well-being, in terms of incomes and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532799
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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