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The Labor Market Effects of Immigration and Emigration in OECD Countries
Docquier, Frédéric - 2012
In this paper, we simulate the labor market effects of net immigration and emigration during the 1990's in all OECD … wage effects of immigration and emigration. We use a range of parameter values spanning most of the estimates in the … literature. In all cases we find that immigration had a positive effect on the wage of less educated natives. It also increased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013112765
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Remittances, Migrants' Education and Immigration Policy : Theory and Evidence from Bilateral Data
Docquier, Frédéric - 2011
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118275
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The Changing Structure of Immigration to the OECD : What Welfare Effects on Member Countries?
Burzyński, Michał - 2018
We investigate the welfare implications of two pre-crisis immigration waves (1991– 2000 and 2001–2010) and of the post … channels of transmission of immigration shocks – the employment and wage effects, the fiscal effect, and the market size effect …-country heterogeneity in the economic benefits from immigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915703
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The labor market effects of immigration and emigration in OECD countries
Docquier, Frédéric; Ozden, Caglar; Peri, Giovanni - 2011
In this paper, we simulate the labor market effects of net immigration and emigration during the 1990's in all OECD … wage effects of immigration and emigration. We use a range of parameter values spanning most of the estimates in the … literature. In all cases we find that immigration had a positive effect on the wage of less educated natives. It also increased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282560
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The Changing Structure of Immigration to the OECD: What Welfare Effects on Member Countries?
Burzynski, Michal; Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel - 2018
We investigate the welfare implications of two pre-crisis immigration waves (1991– 2000 and 2001–2010) and of the post … channels of transmission of immigration shocks – the employment and wage effects, the fiscal effect, and the market size effect …-country heterogeneity in the economic benefits from immigration. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931575
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On the robustness of brain gain estimates
Beine, Michel; Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel - 2009
Recent theoretical studies suggest that migration prospects can raise the expected return to human capital and thus foster education investment at home or, in other words, induce a brain gain. In a recent paper (Beine, Docquier and Rapoport, Economic Journal, 2008) we used the Docquier and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269646
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The wage effects of immigration and emigration
Docquier, Frédéric; Özden, Çağlar; Peri, Giovanni - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008806679
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Migration and Development: Dissecting the Anatomy of the Mobility Transition
Dao, Thu Hien; Docquier, Frédéric; Parsons, Christopher; … - 2016
Emigration first increases before decreasing with economic development. This bell-shaped relationship between emigration and development was first hypothesized by the theory of the mobility transition (Zelinsky, 1971). Although several mechanisms have been proposed to explain the upward segment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011559700
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Birthplace Diversity and Economic Growth: Evidence from the US States in the Post-World War II Period
Docquier, Frédéric; Turati, Riccardo; Valette, Jérôme; … - 2018
This paper empirically revisits the impact of birthplace diversity on economic growth. We use panel data on US states over the 1960-2010 period. This rich data set allows us to better deal with endogeneity issues and to conduct a large set of robustness checks. Our results suggest that diversity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931767
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Optimal Education Policy and Human Capital Accumulation in the Context of Brain Drain
Djajic, Slobodan; Docquier, Frédéric; Michael, Michael S. - 2018
. As a further contribution, we study the interaction between the optimal immigration policy of the host country and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931771