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We introduce the idea that informational cascades can explain the observed regularity that emigrants from the same locations also tend to choose the same foreign locations. Thus informational cascades generate herd behavior. Herd behavior is compared with the network externalities explanation of...
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Mexican Migration Project data. Our empirical results show that both network externalities and herds have significant effects …
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Empirical studies in the migration literature have shown that migration enclaves (networks) negatively affect the … data on Mexican migration to the US, we show that migrants choose smaller networks as their English language proficiency …
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Migration networks are usually captured by the number of people from the migrant's country in the host region. Using … Mexican migration data, we analyze the effects of the usual network variable and two additional origin …
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The social contract of the welfare state can be strained by the arrival of immigrants who receive welfare payments financed by citizens' taxes. We show, however, that the presence of unemployed immigrants receiving welfare payments is consistent with social harmony. The social harmony, which is...
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Population ageing affects most countries, especially developed ones. The elderly have increased in number as a result of increased longevity and a parallel decline in fertility. This phenomenon is placing an increasing burden on the young to finance intergenerational transfers to the old, which...
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same time are willing to pay for moving costs, for example, that are specific to immigrating workers. -- migration ; labour …
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and migration. We examine the specific link between the acquisition of high levels of human capital in the form of … university education in Turkey and migration to Germany. We implement bounds testing procedures to ascertain the long …-run relationships with the variables of interest in a migration model. Although the bounds testing procedure has advantages compared to …
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takes as its starting point the migration of educated/professional labor from poor origin countries to richer host countries …. While high-skilled migration is worrisome, many international migrants accept low-skilled positions in host countries. Their … time-inconsistencies between short-run economic gains from migration and negative long-term effects from missing human …
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The literature, starting with Chiswick (1977, 1978) to Gang and Zimmermann (2000), more recently, focuses on the economic achievements and performance of first- and secondgeneration migrants. This paper presents a three-generation migrant analysis, comparing relative economic performance of...
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