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Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2010

Culture is not new to the study of migration. It has lurked beneath the surface for some time, occasionally protruding openly into the discussion, usually under some pseudonym. The authors bring culture into the open. They are concerned with how culture manifests itself in the migration process...

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Emigration and wages : the EU enlargement experiment

Elsner, Benjamin - 2011

the UK and Ireland. I use this emigration wave to show that emigration significantly changed the wage distribution in the … calibration of a structural model of labor demand, I find that over the period of five years emigration increased the wages of … significant effect of emigration on the wage distribution between high-skilled and low-skilled workers. -- emigration ; EU …

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Visa policies, networks and the cliff at the border

Bertoli, Simone; Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Jesús - 2012

The scale of international migration flows depends on moving costs that are, in turn, influenced by host-country policies and by the size of migrant networks at destination. This paper estimates the influence of visa policies and networks upon bilateral migration flows to multiple destinations....

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Multilateral resistance to migration

Bertoli, Simone; Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Jesús - 2011

The rate of migration observed between two countries does not depend solely on their relative attractiveness, but also on the one of alternative destinations. Following the trade literature, we term the influence exerted by other destinations on bilateral flows as Multilateral Resistance to...

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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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Information, intermediaries, and international migration

Bazzi, Samuel; Cameron, Lisa Ann; Schaner, Simone; … - 2021

Job seekers often face substantial information frictions related to potential job quality. This is especially true in international labor markets, where intermediaries match prospective migrants with employers abroad. We conducted a randomized trial in Indonesia to explore how information about...

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Self-employment and migration

Giambra, Samuele; McKenzie, David J. - 2019

There is a widespread policy view that a lack of job opportunities at home is a key reason for migration, accompanied by suggestions of the need to spend more on creating these opportunities so as to reduce migration. Self-employment is widespread in poor countries, and faced with a lack of...

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Population aging and migration

Poutvaara, Panu - 2021

was consistently a continent of emigration. Europe went through a major reversal from a continent of emigration until 1950 … fertility rate and emigration rate are going to develop in Africa. Even modest increases in emigration from Africa would …

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Returns to international migration: evidence from a Bangladesh-Malaysia visa lottery

Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq; Sharif, Iffath A.; Shrestha, … - 2021

We follow 3,512 (of 1.4 million) applicants to a government lottery that randomly allocated visas to Bangladeshis for low-skilled, temporary labor contracts in Malaysia. Most lottery winners migrate, and their remittance substantially raises their family's standard of living in Bangladesh. The...

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How has COVID-19 affected the intention to migrate via the backway to Europe and to a neighboring African country? : survey evidence and a salience experiment in The Gambia

Bah, Tijan L.; Batista, Catia; Gubert, Flore; McKenzie, … - 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in border closures in many countries and a sharp reduction in overall international mobility. However, this disruption of legal pathways to migration has raised concerns that potential migrants may turn to irregular migration routes as a substitute. We examine...

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