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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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education on both the incidence and timing of internal migration. In addition, for the first time in literature, we provide … causal effects of education on migration by reason for migration. We find that while education substantially increases the … incidence of migration among men, there is no evidence of an effect among women. Women, however, become more likely to migrate …
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Assessing the migration potential and predicting future migration streams are among the most relevant, yet least well … understood topics of migration research. The usual approach taken to address aggregate-level prediction problems is to fit ad hoc … application to the case of EU-enlargement and the ensuing migration streams to be expected from Eastern Europe …
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This paper tests the differential effects of the generosity of the welfare state under free migration and under policy …-controlled migration, distinguishing between source developing and developed countries. We utilize free-movement within the EU to examine … the free migration regime and compare that to immigration into the EU from two other groups, developed and developing …
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The issue of welfare receipt by immigrants is highly controversial across Europe. In this paper, we assess whether immigrants are more likely to receive welfare payments relative to natives across a range of European countries. Using the European Union Survey on Income and Living Conditions for...
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Whether Europe will be able to stand up to its internal and external challenges crucially depends on its ability to manage its internal mobility and inflows of international migrants. Using a unique expert opinion survey, we document that Europe needs skilled migrants, and skill mismatch is to...
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This paper sheds light on the labor market situation of ethnic minorities in the European Union. Facing a serious measurement challenge and lacking adequate data, we apply several measures of ethnicity and examine various data sources as well as secondary evidence. We find significant gaps...
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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 …
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China has been experiencing two major demographic sea changes since the late 1970s: (i) Internal migration, primarily …. The basic question posed in this paper is: How are aging and migration related in post-reform China? We argue that there … of migration, but out- (in-) migration shifts the origin's (destination's) age distribution. We examine theoretically and …
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The concentration of people with diverse socio-cultural backgrounds in particular geographic areas may boost the creation of new ideas, knowledge spillovers, entrepreneurship, and economic growth. In this paper we measure the impact of the size, skills, and diversity of immigration on the...
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