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Eliciting Illegal Migration Rates through List Randomization

McKenzie, David; Siegel, Melissa - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Most migration surveys do not ask about the legal status of migrants due to concerns about the sensitivity of this question. List randomization is a technique that has been used in a number of other social science applications to elicit sensitive information. We trial this technique by adding it...

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The impacts of international migration on remaining household members: omnibus results from a migration lottery program

Gibson, John; McKenzie, David; Stillman, Steven - 2009

these selectivity issues using the randomization provided by an immigration ballot under the Pacific Access Category (PAC …) of New Zealand's immigration policy. We survey applicants to the 2002-05 PAC ballots in Tonga and compare outcomes for … ballots. The immigration laws determine which household members can accompany the principal migrant, providing an instrument …

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The Long-Term Impacts of International Migration: Evidence from a Lottery

Gibson, John; McKenzie, David; Rohorua, Halahingano; … - 2015

We examine the long-term impacts of international migration by comparing immigrants who had successful ballot entries in a migration lottery program, and first moved almost a decade ago, with people who had unsuccessful entries into those same ballots. The long-term gain in income is found to be...

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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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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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The economic consequences of Brain Drain of the best and brightest: Microeconomic evidence from five countries

Gibson, John; McKenzie, David - 2010

Brain drain has long been a common concern for migrant-sending countries, particularly for small countries where high-skilled emigration rates are highest. However, while economic theory suggests a number of possible benefits, in addition to costs, from skilled emigration, the evidence base on...

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How important is selection? Experimental vs. non-experimental measures of the income gains from migration

McKenzie, David; Gibson, John - 2006

Measuring the gain in income from migration is complicated by non-random selection of migrants from the general population, making it hard to obtain an appropriate comparison group of non-migrants. This paper uses a migrant lottery to overcome this problem, providing an experimental measure of...

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Eight questions about brain drain

Gibson, John; McKenzie, David - 2011

High-skilled emigration is an emotive issue that in popular discourse is often referred to as brain drain, conjuring images of extremely negative impacts on developing countries. Recent discussions of brain gain, diaspora effects, and other advantages of migration have been used to argue against...

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Testing Classic Theories of Migration in the Lab

Batista, Catia; McKenzie, David - 2021

We test different classic migration theories by using incentivized laboratory experiments to investigate how potential migrants decide between working in different destinations. We test theories of income maximization, skill-selection, and multi-destination choice as we vary migration costs,...

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Can Information and Alternatives to Irregular Migration Reduce "Backway" Migration from The Gambia?

Bah, Tijan L.; Batista, Catia; Gubert, Flore; McKenzie, … - 2023

Irregular migration from West Africa to Europe across the Sahara and Mediterranean is extremely risky for migrants and a key policy concern. A cluster-randomized experiment with 3,641 young men from 391 settlements in The Gambia is used to test three approaches to reducing risky migration:...

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