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International migration with heterogeneous agents : theory and evidence
Brücker, Herbert (contributor);  … - 2006
International migration is characterized by two puzzling facts: First, only a small share of the population tends to … rejected for the stock model. -- international migration ; temporary migration ; panel cointegration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003376850
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Optimal immigration policy : permanent, guest-worker, or Mode IV?
Schiff, Maurice W. (contributor) - 2007
Host countries have implemented permanent and guest-worker (GW) immigration programs in recent decades, while the temporary movement of service providers under Mode IV of the GATS is one of the issues being negotiated at the Doha Round of the WTO. Though decisions on what programs to adopt have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003609619
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Optimal immigration policy : permanent, guest worker, or mode IV?
Schiff, Maurice W. (contributor) - 2007
Immigration continues to be on the forefront of the policy debate on both sides of the Atlantic. A number of reforms of permanent and guest-worker (GW) immigration programs are being considered, and the temporary movement of service providers under Mode IV (GATS) is being negotiated at the Doha...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003561645
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The role of income and immigration policies in attracting international migrants
Ortega, Francesc; Peri, Giovanni - 2012
This paper makes two contributions to the literature on the determinants of international migration flows. First, we …-migrants. Our estimates show that international migration flows are highly responsive to income per capita at destination. This … also find that tightening of laws regulating immigrant entry reduce rapidly and significantly their flow. -- international …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009550658
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When migrants overstay their legal welcome : a proposed solution to the guest-worker program
Schiff, Maurice W. (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
A number of developed countries have implemented guest-worker programs in recent decades. Its basic feature is the temporary presence of the foreign guest-workers. The problem with such programs is that there is little to prevent these guest-workers from entering the illegal job market and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002485615
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International migration in the long-run : positive selection, negative selection and policy
Hatton, Timothy J. (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
World War I to the quotas and bans introduced afterwards was the result of a combination of factors: public hostility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002352435
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Brain refrain and human capital formation in Spain
Blanco-Álvarez, Jose; Parsons, Christopher R.; Tang, … - 2022
We examine how low and high skilled internal emigration causally affect investments in human capital at origin. We provide theoretical and empirical evidence of a disincentive mechanism through which individuals refrain from education should low skilled emigration prove a viable alternative. Our...
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The economics of circular migration
Constant, Amelie; Nottmeyer, Olga; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2012
; international migration ; remittances …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009631443
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International immigration and labor regulation
Levai, Adam; Turati, Riccardo - 2024
The existing literature investigating the labor market impact of immigration assumes, implicitly or explicitly, that the law or labor regulation is exogenous to immigration. To test this assumption, we build a novel workers' protection measure based on 36 labor law variables that capture labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014517308
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Immigration in a high unemployment economy : the recent Danish experience
Pedersen, Peder J. - 2000
The purpose in this paper is to survey the course of immigration into Denmark and research and studies related to the problems encountered in this area. The first part of the paper describes the actual flows of migrants in the most recent decades. The directly job-related part of migration can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335235