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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532676
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Migration, Risk Attitudes, and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey
Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - 2013
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 novel vignette-adjusted measure of risk preferences in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532802
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Migration, Risk Attitudes, and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey
Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2013
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 novel vignette-adjusted measure of risk preferences in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010839545
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Do Migrants Send Remittances as a Way of Self-Insurance? Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey
Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010895131
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Estimating Immigrant Earnings Profiles when Migrations are Temporary
Dustmann, Christian; Görlach, Joseph-Simon - 2016
selective out-migration literature, our basic structure assumes that the process that determines out-migration is unrelated to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532874
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Assimilation through Marriage
Epstein, Gil S.; Pomerantz, Renana Lindner - 2012
During the last few decades cultural changes have been taking place in many countries due to migration. The degree to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532779
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Assimilation through Marriage
Epstein, Gil S.; Pomerantz, Renana Lindner - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2012
During the last few decades cultural changes have been taking place in many countries due to migration. The degree to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010895121
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Social capital, entrepreneurship and living standards: differences between immigrants and the native born
Roskruge, Matthew; Poot, Jacques; King, Laura - 2016
Both migrant entrepreneurship and social capital are topics which have attracted a great deal of attention. However, relatively little econometric analysis has been done on their interrelationship. In this paper we first consider the relationship between social capital and the prevalence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532784
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Scared Straight? Threat and Assimilation of Refugees in Germany
Philipp, Jaschke; Sardoschau, Sulin; Tabellini, Marco - 2021
This paper studies the effects of threat on convergence to local culture and on economic assimilation of refugees, exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in their allocation across German regions between 2013 and 2016. We combine novel survey data on cultural preferences and economic outcomes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533055
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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 less, leading to concerns that further increases in skilled migration …
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