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The impact of worker effort on public sentiment towards temporary migrants

Epstein, Gil S.; Venturini, Alessandra - 2011

Temporary and circular migration programs have been devised by many destination countries and supported by the European … additional reason for proposing temporary migration policies based on the characteristics of the foreign labor-effort supply. The … when temporary migration policies are adopted. -- Migration ; Exertion of effort ; Contracted Temporary Migration …

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Remittances and the brain drain revisited : the microdata show that more educated migrants remit more

Bollard, Albert; Morten, Melanie; Rapoport, Hillel - 2009

large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross … than characteristics of their family situations explains much of the higher remittances. -- Remittances ; Migration ; Brain …Two of the most salient trends surrounding the issue of migration and development over the last two decades are the …

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Why migrate : for study or for work?

Brezis, Elise S. - 2016

Over the past decades, globalization has led to a huge increase in the migration of workers, as well as students. This … paper develops a simple two-step model that describes the decisions of an individual vis-à-vis education and migration, and … presents a unified model, wherein the two migration decisions are combined into a single, unique model. This paper shows that …

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Minimum wages and the creation of illegal migration

Epstein, Gil S.; Heizler, Odelia - 2013

thus creating illegal migration. -- illegal immigration ; foreign worker ; minimum wages …

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Immigration, fertility and human capital : a model of economic decline of the West

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2010

I show how the influences of unskilled immigration, differential fertility between immigrants and the local indigenous population, and incentives for investment in human capital combine to predict the decline of the West. In particular, indigenous low-skilled workers lose from unskilled...

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Migrants, ethnicity and the welfare state

Epstein, Gil S. - 2012

A model is set up where migrants must choose a level of social traits and consumption of ethnic goods. As the consumption level of ethnic goods increases, the migrants become ever more different to the local population and are less assimilated. Less assimilation affects the reaction of the local...

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Age at immigration and high school dropouts

Cohen-Goldner, Sarit; Epstein, Gil S. - 2014

We focus on high school dropout rate among male and female immigrant children. We consider the relationship between the dropout rate and age of arrival of the immigrants. Using repeated cross sectional data from the Israeli Labor Force Surveys of 1996-2011 we show that the share of high school...

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Ethnic goods and immigrant assimilation

Abdulloev, Ilhom; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2014

Some immigrants try to keep their ethnicity hidden while others become ever deeply more mired in their home culture. We argue that among immigrants this struggle manifests itself in the ethnic goods they choose to consume. Different types of ethnic goods have vastly different effects on...

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Who is in favor of immigration

Epstein, Gil S.; Katav-Herz, Shirit - 2019

Population ageing affects most countries, especially developed ones. The elderly have increased in number as a result of increased longevity and a parallel decline in fertility. This phenomenon is placing an increasing burden on the young to finance intergenerational transfers to the old, which...

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Interactions between local and migrant workers at the workplace

Epstein, Gil S.; Mealem, Yosef - 2010

In this paper we consider the interaction between local workers and migrants in the production process of a firm. Both local workers and migrants can invest effort in assimilation activities in order to increase the assimilation of the migrants into the firm and so by increase their interaction...

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