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Refugees' and irregular migrants' self-selection into Europe: who migrates where?

Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Poutvaara, Panu - 2019

We analyze self-selection of refugees and irregular migrants and test our theory in the context of the European refugee crisis. Using unique datasets from the International Organization for Migration and Gallup World Polls, we provide the first large-scale evidence on reasons to emigrate, and...

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Do emigrants self-select along cultural traits? : evidence from the MENA countries

Docquier, Frédéric; Tansel, Aysıt; Turati, Riccardo - 2017

religiosity and gender-egalitarian attitudes. To do so, we use Gallup World Poll data on individual opinions and beliefs … also share more gender-egalitarian views, although the effect only holds among the young (aged 15 to 30), among single …

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Network abroad and culture : global individual-level evidence

Turati, Riccardo - 2024

: pro-social behavior, religiosity and gender-egalitarian attitudes. The paper shows that natives who have a connection … different contexts and individuals, while the findings on religiosity and gender-egalitarian attitudes are more sensitive to …

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Family migration and relative earnings potentials

Foged, Mette - 2016

predictions regarding the type of couples that select into migrating. The empirical tests show that gender neutral family … to one of the partners while results are less clear for small dissimilarities within the couple, suggesting that gender …

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International migration of couples

Junge, Martin; Munk, Martin D.; Poutvaara, Panu - 2014

We present a theory on migration of dual-earner couples and test it in the context of international migration. Our model predicts that the probability that a couple emigrates increases in the home-country earnings of the primary earner. The effect of the home-country earnings of the secondary...

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Gender discrimination and the sex ratio of immigrants

Lach, Saul; Sicherman, Nachum - 2022

We use data on international migration to study the causal effect of gender discrimination on the sex-ratio of … immigrants to the U.S. during the 1970-2019 period. We measure gender discrimination in the countries of origin using the Women … standard deviation increase in the WBL index in a country of origin (a decrease in gender discrimination) decreases the share …

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The gender aspect of immigrants' assimilation in Europe

Lee, Tae Hoon; Peri, Giovanni; Viarengo, Martina - 2020

The labor market performance of immigrants relative to natives has been widely studied but its gender dimension has …

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Left behind but doing good? : civic engagement in two post-socialist countries

Nikolova, Milena; Roman, Monica; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2015

The fall of socialism in Central and Eastern Europe restored ordinary citizens' rights and freedoms and ended their political and social isolation. While the freedom of movement was quickly embraced, civil society revival lagged due to the eroded civic norms, declining social capital, and...

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Does bilateral trust affect international movement of goods and labor? : conference paper

Spring, Eva; Grossmann, Volker - 2013

separately with various indicators of genetic ("somatic") distance between country-pairs. These indicators work equally well at …

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Should i stay or should i go? : Romanian migrants during transition and enlargements

Andrén, Daniela; Roman, Monica - 2014

The change in Romanian political regime in 1989 has lifted the barriers for population circulation and mobility that were further more amplified in 2002 by the liberalization of Romanians' circulation in the Schengen space. In such context, the aim of this paper is to analyze to what extent...

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