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Ethnicity and the immigration of highly skilled workers to the United States
Jasso, Guillermina (contributor) - 2009
This paper examines ethnicity among highly skilled immigrants to the United States. The paper focuses on five classic components of ethnicity -country of birth, race, skin color, language, and religion - among persons admitted to legal permanent residence in the United States in 2003 in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003796343
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Remittances and portfolio values : an inquiry using Spanish immigrants from Africa, Europe and the Americas
Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Pozo, Susan - 2012
Using a recent Spanish database, we show that remittances respond to cross country differences in portfolio values. This behavior suggests that immigrants are sophisticated economic optimizers who take advantage of opportunities to invest trans-nationally given the networks that immigrants are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009548887
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Money for nothing? : Ukrainian immigrants in Poland and their remitting behaviors
Kaczmarczyk, Paweł - 2013
Analysis of remittances lies in the very centre of the scientific debate on developmental impacts of migration. On the macro level money sent back home may serve as an important source of capital (as compared to the value of export, Development Assistance or Foreign Direct Investment) but also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010196422
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Do migrants send remittances as a way of self-insurance? : evidence from a representative immigrant survey
Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - 2014
Do migrants send remittances as a way of obtaining insurance? While this motive is theoretically suggested in the literature, the question of identifying this relationship empirically has only begun to be explored. Using a unique representative survey of 1500 immigrants in the Greater Dublin...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010250039
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Return plans and migrants' behavior
Chabé-Ferret, Bastien; Machado, Joël; Wahba, Jackline - 2016
This paper studies how return migration intentions affect immigrants' behavior. Using a unique French data set, we analyze the relationship between return plans and several immigrants' behavior in the host and origin countries addressing the potential endogeneity between return plans and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011518137
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Remittances, migrants' education and immigration policy : theory and evidence from bilateral data
Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel; Salomone, Sara - 2011
We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using original bilateral remittance data. At a theoretical level we lay out a model of remittances interacting migrants' human capital with two dimensions of immigration policy:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009519903
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Motivations for remittances : evidence from Moldova
Piracha, Matloob; Saraogi, Amrita - 2011
household and migrant characteristics and some community level variables are the key elements in explaining the remittance … recipient household and use it to interpret the determinants/motivations of remittances. Our results show that a combination of … behaviour in Moldova. Drawing from these estimates, we conclude that altruism and investment (proxied by the level of economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009130137
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Immigration policy and remittance behaviour
Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano; Tchuente, Guy - 2017
This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced in the mid-1990s, on migrants' remittance behaviour. More precisely, we compare the remittance behaviour of two cohorts who entered Australia before and after the policy change, which consists of stricter...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011715862
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Remittances and the brain drain : evidence from microdata for Sub-Saharan Africa
Bredtmann, Julia; Martinez Flores, Fernanda; Otten, … - 2016
ends of the migrant-origin household relationship and employing household fixed effects specifications that only use within-household … microdata. We create a unique cross-country dataset by combining household surveys from five Sub-Saharan African countries that … vanishes for migrants in OECD destination countries once characteristics of the origin household are controlled for. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011581651
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Will skill-based immigration policies lead to lower remittances? : an analysis of the relations between education, sponsorship, and remittances
Mukhopadhyay, Sankar; Zou, Miaomiao - 2018
As more and more developed countries adopt policies that favor highly educated immigrants, the impact of such policies on developing countries remains unclear. Some researchers have argued that migrants who are more educated tend to bring their immediate family members to the host country, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011798154