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The Impact of Immigration on the Geographic Mobility of New Zealanders
Stillman, Steven; Mare, David - 2007
groups affects the geographic mobility of the New Zealand-born and earlier migrants. We identify the impact of recent … migration on mobility using the "area-analysis" approach, which exploits the fact that immigration is spatially concentrated …, and thus a change in the local supply of migrants in a particular skill group should have an impact on the mobility of …
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Migration on the Rise, a Paradigm in Decline: The Last Half-Century of Global Mobility
Clemens, Michael A. - 2022
The past several decades have witnessed a rebirth of global labor mobility. Workers have begun to move between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533090
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The Impact of Immigration on the Geographic Mobility of New Zealanders
Stillman, Steven; Maré, David Christopher - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2007
groups affects the geographic mobility of the New Zealand-born and earlier migrants. We identify the impact of recent … migration on mobility using the "area-analysis" approach, which exploits the fact that immigration is spatially concentrated …, and thus a change in the local supply of migrants in a particular skill group should have an impact on the mobility of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004967954
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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
A unique survey which tracks worldwide the best and brightest academic performers from three Pacific countries is used 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....
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Do Migrants Send Remittances as a Way of Self-Insurance? Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey
Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - 2014
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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Remittances and the Brain Drain Revisited: The microdata show that more educated migrants remit more
Bollard, Albert; McKenzie, David; Morten, Melanie; … - 2009
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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Intermarriage and Immigrant Employment: The Role of Networks
Furtado, Delia; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - 2009
The social integration of immigrants is believed to be an important determinant of immigrants' labor market outcomes. Using 2000 U.S. Census data, we examine how and why marriage to a native, one measure of social assimilation, affects immigrant employment rates. We show that even when...
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The Dynamics of Return Migration, Human Capital Accumulation, and Wage Assimilation
Adda, Jérôme; Dustmann, Christian; Görlach, Joseph-Simon - 2021
This paper develops and estimates a dynamic model where individuals differ in ability and location preference to evaluate the mechanisms that affect the evolution of immigrants' careers in conjunction with their re-migration plans. Our analysis highlights a novel form of selective return...
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The Role of Labor Market Institutions in the Impact of Immigration on Wages and Employment
Foged, Mette; Hasager, Linea; Yasenov, Vasil - 2021
We study the role of institutions in affecting the labor market impacts of immigration using a cross-country meta-analysis approach. To accomplish this, we gather information on 1,030 previously estimated wage effects and 432 employment effects of immigration from 61 academic studies covering 18...
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Media Exposure and Internal Migration - Evidence from Indonesia
Farré, Lídia; Fasani, Francesco - 2011
This paper investigates the impact of television on internal migration in Indonesia. We exploit the differential introduction of private television throughout the country and the variation in signal reception due to topography to estimate the causal effect of media exposure. Our estimates reveal...
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