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Migration and globalization : challenges and perspectives for the research infrastructure
Kahanec, Martin (contributor);  … - 2008
International migration of people is a momentous and complex phenomenon. Research on its causes and consequences, requires sufficient data. While some datasets are available, the nature of migration complicates their scientific use. Virtually no existing dataset captures international migration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793321
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Using behavioral economic experiments at a large motor carrier : the context and design of the truckers and turnover project
Burks, Stephen V. (contributor) - 2007
The Truckers and Turnover Project is a statistical case study of a single firm and its employees which matches proprietary personnel and operational data to new data collected by the researchers to create a two-year panel study of a large subset of new hires. The project's most distinctive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003594442
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Informing migration policies : a data primer
Carletto, Calogero; Larrison, Jennica; Özden, Çağlar - 2014
Researchers in many fields, such as demography, economics, and sociology, have established various data collection methodologies and principles to answer a range of academic and policy questions on migration. Although the progress has been impressive, some basic challenges remain. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010463440
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Appraising cross-national income inequality databases : an introduction
Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Lustig, Nora; Teles, Daniel - 2015
(SEDLAC). Two are based on secondary sources: "All the Ginis" (ATG) and the World Income Inequality Database (WIID); and one … is generated entirely through multiple-imputation methods: the Standardized World Income Inequality Database (SWIID …-based: CEPALSTAT, Income Distribution Database (IDD), LIS, PovcalNet, and Socio-Economic Database for Latin America and the Caribbean …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376319
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Does bilateral trust affect international movement of goods and labor? : conference paper
Spring, Eva; Grossmann, Volker - 2013
Trust in the citizens of a potential partner country may affect the decision to trade with or to migrate to a foreign country. This paper employs panel data to examine the causal impact of such bilateral trust on international trade and migration patterns. We apply instrumental variables (IV)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010338889
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Networks and migrants' intended destination
Bertoli, Simone; Ruyssen, Ilse - 2016
Social networks are known to influence migration decisions, but connections between individuals can hardly be observed. We rely on individual-level surveys conducted by Gallup in 147 countries that provide information on migration intentions and on the existence of distance-one connections for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011532582
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International migration : driver of political and social change?
Tuccio, Michele; Wahba, Jackline; Hamdouch, Bachir - 2016
This paper focuses on the impact of international migration on the transfer of political and social norms. Exploiting recent and unique data on Morocco, it explores whether households with return and current migrants bear different political preferences and behaviours than non-migrant families....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011454320
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010463429
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Diaspora economics
Fang, Tony; Wells, Alex - 2022
Diasporas are global communities of migrants who retain a sense of connection with their homeland. The concept is ancient but has only recently become an important area of research in economics. Due to their unique transnational characteristics, diasporas can have significant influence over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013259836
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Immigrant inventors and diversity in the age of mass migration
Campo, Francesco; Mendola, Mariapia; Morrison, Andrea; … - 2020
A possible unintended but damaging consequence of anti-immigrant rhetoric, and the policies it inspires, is that they may put high-skilled immigrants off more than low-skilled ones at times when countries and businesses intensify their competition for global talent. We investigate this argument...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239250