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Tradable refugee-admission quotas (TRAQs), the Syrian crisis and the new European agenda on migration

Moraga, Jesús Fernández-Huertas; Rapoport, Hillel - 2015

The Syrian Civil War gave rise to the largest refugee flight reaching Europe since the Yugoslavian wars in the 1990s. The crisis evidenced the deficiencies of the European Union Asylum Policy, which struggled both to offer solutions to Syrian refugees and to efficiently allocate costs across...

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Tradable refugee-admission quotas and EU asylum policy

Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Jesús; Rapoport, Hillel - 2014

The current EU Asylum policy is widely seen as ineffective and unfair. We propose an EU-wide market for tradable quotas on both refugees and asylum-seekers coupled with a matching mechanism linking countries' and migrants' preferences. We show that the proposed system can go a long way towards...

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

Bollard, Albert; McKenzie, David J.; 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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Emigration and democracy

Docquier, Frédéric; Lodigiani, Elisabetta; Rapoport, … - 2011

Migration is an important and yet neglected determinant of institutions. The paper documents the channels through which emigration affects home country institutions and considers dynamic-panel regressions for a large sample of developing countries. We find that emigration and human capital both...

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The measurement of educational inequality : achievement and opportunity

Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Gignoux, Jérémie - 2011

This paper proposes two related measures of educational inequality: one for educational achievement and another for educational opportunity. The former is the simple variance (or standard deviation) of test scores. Its selection is informed by consideration of two measurement issues that have...

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A global count of the extreme poor in 2012 : data issues, methodology and initial results

Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Chen, Shaohua; Dabalen, Andrew; … - 2015

Sustainable Development Goals and the World Bank's twin goals, the new poverty line was chosen so as to preserve the definition … the global count, we find 12.7 percent of the world's population, or 897 million people, are living in extreme poverty …

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Appraising cross-national income inequality databases : an introduction

Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Lustig, Nora; Teles, Daniel - 2015

(SEDLAC). Two are based on secondary sources: "All the Ginis" (ATG) and the World Income Inequality Database (WIID); and one … is generated entirely through multiple-imputation methods: the Standardized World Income Inequality Database (SWIID …

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Inequality of opportunity, income inequality and economic mobility : some international comparisons

Brunori, Paolo; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Peragine, … - 2013

Despite a recent surge in the number of studies attempting to measure inequality of opportunity in various countries, methodological differences have so far prevented meaningful international comparisons. This paper presents a comparison of ex-ante measures of inequality of economic opportunity...

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Migration policy, African population growth and global inequality

Mountford, Andrew; Rapoport, Hillel - 2014

According to recent UN projections more than 50 percent of the growth in world population over the next half century … significant impact on the world distribution of income. In this paper we discuss the potential for migration policies to affect … more or less restrictive/selective migration policies and derive their implications for the evolution of world inequality. …

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Migration and cross-border financial flows

Kugler, Maurice; Levintal, Oren; Rapoport, Hillel - 2013

The gravity model has provided a tractable empirical framework to account for bilateral flows not only of manufactured goods, as in the case of merchandise trade, but also of financial flows. In particular, recent literature has emphasized the role of information costs in preventing larger...

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