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The role of language in shaping international migration

Adserà, Alícia; Pytlikova, Mariola - 2012

Fluency in (or ease to quickly learn) the language of the destination country plays a key role in the transfer of human capital from the source country to another country and boosts the immigrant's rate of success at the destination's labor market. This suggests that the ability to learn and...

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On the economic geography of international migration

Özden, Çağlar; Parsons, Christopher R. - 2014

existence of Zipf's and Gibrat's Laws in the context of aggregate and high-skilled international immigration and emigration …. Lastly, high skilled immigration and emigration stocks expressed in levels or as densities all exhibit signs of convergence … fertility rates, reductions in emigration restrictions, migrant sorting and selective immigration policies, immigrant networks …

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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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Migration and the demographic shift

Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2014

This chapter connects population aging with international migration. After documenting the trends for both, we review the supply-push and demand-pull determinants of migration, focusing particularly on the role of age and aging. We subsequently discuss the literature concerning the implications...

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Immigration and crime : new empirical evidence from European victimization data

Nunziata, Luca - 2014

We exploit the increase in immigration flows into western European countries that took place in the 2000s to assess whether immigration affects crime victimization and the perception of criminality among European natives. Using data from the European Social Survey, the Labour Force Survey and...

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High skilled immigration in the international arena

Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor) - 2005

This conceptual paper, prepared for a United Nations Expert Group Meeting on Migration and Development, is concerned … level and distribution of income in the destinations. The causes and consequences of high-skilled emigration from the … perspective of the origins or sending countries are examined. Educational finance and taxing policies that encourage emigration …

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Migration's income and poverty impact has been underestimated

Schiff, Maurice W. (contributor) - 2006

This paper examines two issues associated with the impact of migration on household income and poverty. First, existing studies have typically overlooked a feature of migration that should be taken into account in estimating its impact, namely the fact that migration changes the size of the...

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Bounding the price equivalent of migration barriers

Clemens, Michael A.; Montenegro, Claudio; Pritchett, Lant - 2016

Large international differences in the price of labor can be sustained by differences between workers, or by natural and policy barriers to worker mobility. We use migrant selection theory and evidence to place lower bounds on the ad valorem equivalent of labor mobility barriers to the United...

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International migration : driver of political and social change?

Tuccio, Michele; Wahba, Jackline; Hamdouch, Bachir - 2016

preferences and behaviours than non-migrant families. Once controlling for the double selection into emigration and return …

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The elasticity of the migrant labor supply : evidence from temporary Filipino migrants

Bertoli, Simone; Moraga, Jesús Fernández-Huertas; … - 2016

The effect of immigration on host and origin countries is mediated by the way migrants take their labor supply decisions. We propose a simple way of integrating the traditional random utility maximization model used to analyze location decisions with a classical labor demand function at...

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