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negative employment spillovers outside manufacturing, caused by robots but not by Chinese imports, are an important mechanism … indirectly exposed industries - can explain their disparate employment effects outside manufacturing and, in turn, the …
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Do migrants send remittances as a way of obtaining insurance? While this motive is theoretically suggested in the literature, the question of identifying this relationship empirically has only begun to be explored. Using a unique representative survey of 1500 immigrants in the Greater Dublin...
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Two of the most salient trends surrounding the issue of migration and development over the last two decades are the large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit...
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experiment with unique survey data on would-be emigrants' probabilistic expectations about employment and incomes in the … weight on the negative employment experiences of some migrants, and by inaccurate information flows from extended family, who …
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Do more risk loving migrants opt for self-employment? This is a question especially relevant for policy makers … designing selective immigration policies in countries of destination. In order to provide a rigorous answer to it, we use a …
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This paper examines the impact of migration on educational attainments in rural Mexico. Using historical migration rates by state to instrument for current migration, we find evidence of a significant negative effect of migration on schooling attendance and attainments of 12 to 18 year-old boys...
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capital with two dimensions of immigration policy: restrictiveness, and selectivity. The model predicts that the relationship … between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The … effect of education is more likely to be positive when the immigration policy is more restrictive and less skill …
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increases in immigration. …
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We develop a model to study the effects of migration and remittances on inequality in the origin communities. While wealth inequality is shown to be monotonically reduced along the time-span, the short- and the long-run impacts on income inequality may be of opposite signs, suggesting that the...
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waves to estimate how regional population reacts to asymmetric shocks. These shocks are measured by non-employment rates … most striking difference is that, in India, we do not find any significant reactions to asymmetric non-employment shocks at … regional shocks by adjusting up to a third of a regional non-employment shock through migration within two years. This is …
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