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waves to estimate how regional population reacts to asymmetric shocks. These shocks are measured by non-employment rates … regions as identifying information. Because we include region and time effects, we interpret regression-adjusted population … changes as proxies for regional migration. Comparing the results with those for the United States and the European Union, 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 less, leading to concerns that further increases in skilled migration …
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We argue that spatial dispersal policies on refugees and asylum seekers influence labour market assimilation of refugees through two mechanisms: first, the local job offer arrival rate and, second, place utility. Our partial search model with simultaneous job and residential location search...
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International migration is one of the most important choices that individuals and households in poor countries can make … impacts of migration, since those who choose to move typically differ in a host of observable and unobservable ways from those … different datagathering strategies needed for conducing policy experiments. Experimental migration research as a field is still …
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differences in observable characteristics. We analyse employment assimilation for all groups over the migration cycle. Our main … part of this differential can be explained by observable characteristics. Over the migration cycle, the data suggests that …
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, unemployment and wages of the resident population. We find no evidence that immigration has overall effects on any of these …
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predominantly determined by the same success factors as those for the New Zealand born. Migration increases trade and tourism, both … consequences of greater diversity; and differences in impacts between temporary and long-term migration. …
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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 …
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We document the educational integration of immigrant children with a focus on the link between family size and educational decisions and distinguishing particularly between firstand second-generation immigrants and between source country groups. First, for immigrant adolescents, we show...
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