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Migration from developing countries: selection, income elasticity, and Simpson's paradox

Clemens, Michael A.; Mendola, Mariapia - 2020

How does immigration affect incomes in the countries migrants go to, and how do rising incomes shape emigration from …-income countries the income elasticity of emigration demand is 0.23. The world's poor collectively treat migration not as an inferior … good, but as a normal good. Any negative effect of higher income on emigration within subpopulations can reverse in the …

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Family size, sibling rivalry and migration : evidence from Mexico

Bratti, Massimiliano; Fiore, Simona; Mendola, Mariapia - 2016

This paper examines the causal effects of family size and demographic structure on offspring's international migration. We use rich survey data from Mexico to estimate the impact of sibship size, birth order and sibling composition on teenagers' and young adults' migration outcomes. We find no...

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Immigrant inventors and diversity in the age of mass migration

Campo, Francesco; Mendola, Mariapia; Morrison, Andrea; … - 2020

A possible unintended but damaging consequence of anti-immigrant rhetoric, and the policies it inspires, is that they may put high-skilled immigrants off more than low-skilled ones at times when countries and businesses intensify their competition for global talent. We investigate this argument...

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