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Labour market status and migration dynamics
Bijwaard, Govert - 2009
In this empirical paper we assess how labour market transitions and out- and repeated migration of immigrants are interrelated. We estimate a multi-state multiple spell competing risks model with four states: employed, unemployed receiving benefits, out-of-the-labour market (no benefits) and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003908641
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Do high-income or low-income immigrants leave faster?
Bijwaard, Govert; Wahba, Jackline - 2013
We estimate the impact of the income earned in the host country on return migration of labor migrants from developing countries. We use a three-state correlated competing risks model to account for the strong dependence of labor market status and the income earned. Our analysis is based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010211160
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Intentions to return of undocumented migrants : illegality as a cause of skill waste
Coniglio, Nicola D. (contributor);  … - 2006
In this paper we show that highly skilled undocumented migrants are more likely to return home than migrants with low or no skills when illegality causes skill wasteʺ, i.e. when illegality reduces the rate of return of individual capabilities (i.e. skills and human capital) in both the labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003477410
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Estimating the impact of immigrants on the host country social security system when return migration is an endogenous choice
Kirdar, Murat G. - 2010
In this paper, I estimate the fiscal impact of immigrants on the German pension insurance (PI) and unemployment insurance (UI) systems when return migration is an endogenous choice. For this purpose, I develop a dynamic stochastic model of joint return migration and saving decisions that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003959164
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Modeling migration dynamics of immigrants : the case of The Netherlands
Bijwaard, Govert (contributor) - 2007
In this paper we analyze the demographic factors that influence the migration dynamics of recent immigrants to The Netherlands. We show how we can allow for both permanent and temporary migrants. Based on data from Statistics Netherlands we analyze both the departure and the return from abroad...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003610121
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Return migration, investment in children, and intergenerational mobility : comparing sons of foreign and native born fathers
Dustmann, Christian (contributor) - 2007
This paper studies parental investment in education and intergenerational earnings mobility for father-son pairs with native and foreign born fathers. We illustrate within a simple model that for immigrants, investment in their children is related to their return migration probability. In our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003561640
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Savings, asset holdings, and temporary migration
Dustmann, Christian; Mestres, Josep - 2011
This paper analyzes savings and asset holdings of immigrants in relation to their return plans. We argue that savings and asset accumulation may be affected by return plans of immigrants. Further, the way savings and assets are held in the home- and host country may also be related to future...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009230177
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The selection of migrants and returnees in Romania : evidence and long-run implications
Ambrosini, J. William; Mayr, Karin; Peri, Giovanni; … - 2012
This paper uses census and survey data to identify the wage earning ability and the selection of recent Romanian migrants and returnees. We construct measures of selection across skill groups and estimate the average and the skill-specific premium for migration and return for three typical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009550557
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The psychic costs of migration : evidence from Irish return migrants
Barrett, Alan; Mosca, Irene - 2012
Within the economics literature, the "psychic costs" of migration have been incorporated into theoretical models since Sjaastad (1962). However, the existence of such costs has rarely been investigated in empirical papers. In this paper, we look at the psychic costs of migration using alcohol...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530768
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The income portfolio of immigrants in Germany : effects of ethnic origin and assimilation or: who gains from income re-distribution?
Frick, Joachim R.; Büchel, Felix - 2000
West Germans, East Germans, and immigrants; the latter being split into Ethnic Migrants (Aussiedler) and foreigners … "pure" Aussiedler), mainly due to their age structure, resulting in lower eligibility for and receipt of old age pensions …. Again, "pure" Aussiedler are an exception. When focusing only on younger people, the situation is reversed, and immigrants …
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