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The labor market effects of immigration and emigration in OECD countries

Docquier, Frédéric; Özden, Çağlar; 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 …, emigration had a negative effect on the wage of less educated native workers and it contributed to increase within country …

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

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

This paper empirically investigates whether emigrants from MENA countries self-select on cultural traits such as religiosity and gender-egalitarian attitudes. To do so, we use Gallup World Poll data on individual opinions and beliefs, migration aspirations, short-run migration plans, and...

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Migrants' self-selection and the vicious circle of right-wing populism

Docquier, Frédéric; Vasilakis, Chrysovalantis - 2024

immigration and emigration flows. To do so, we use an instrumental variable approach, where we instrument variations in right …-skilled emigration, while leaving low-skilled emigration unaffected. These effects are not necessarily associated with the election of a …

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A global assessment of human capital mobility : the role of non-OECD destinations

Artuc, Erhan; Docquier, Frédéric; Özden, Çağlar; … - 2014

Discussions of high-skilled mobility typically evoke migration patterns from poorer to wealthier countries, which ignore movements to and between developing countries. This paper presents, for the first time, a global overview of human capital mobility through bilateral migration stocks by...

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Climate change, inequality, and human migration

Burzyńskia, Michał; Deuster, Christoph; Docquier, … - 2019

This paper investigates the long-term implications of climate change on local, interregional, and international migration of workers. For nearly all of the world's countries, our micro-founded model jointly endogenizes the effects of changing temperature and sea level on income distribution and...

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New York, Abu Dhabi, London or Stay at Home? : using a cross-nested logit model to identify complex substitution patterns in migration

Beine, Michel; Bierlaire, Michel; Docquier, Frédéric - 2021

The question of how people revise their decisions about whether to emigrate, and where to, when facing changes in the global environment is of critical importance in migration literature. We propose a cross-nested logit (CNL) approach to generalize the way deviations from the IIA (independence...

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A gendered assessment of the brain drain

Docquier, Frédéric (contributor); … - 2007

drain. Emigration stocks and rates are provided by level of schooling and gender for 195 source countries in 1990 and 2000 …

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Selective migration and economic development : a generalized approach

Cha'Ngom, Narcisse; Deuster, Christoph; Docquier, Frédéric - 2023

accounting framework to quantify the effects of migration on development and inequality. We find that selective emigration …International migration is a selective process that induces ambiguous effects on human capital and economic development … in countries of origin. We establish the theoretical micro-foundations of the relationship between selective emigration …

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