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The effects of international migration on the well-being of native populations in Europe
Betz, William; Simpson, Nicole B. - 2013
the effects that migrants have on a host country's population continues to be an important research agenda. There is a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009740085
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Human capital investment under exit options : evidence from a natural quasi-experiment
Chand, Satish; Clemens, Michael A. - 2019
Theory suggests that groups historically subject to discrimination, such as Jews, could exhibit traditionally high investment in education because discrimination spurred exit facilitated by human capital. Theory moreover suggests that if exit is uncertain, it could induce investment in skill...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011985775
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The cliometrics of international migration : a survey
Hatton, Timothy J. - 2010
migrations. Here I focus on the period 1850 to 1940 and chiefly on migration from Europe to the New World. The survey is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003959313
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The long-term impacts of international migration : evidence from a lottery
Gibson, John K.; McKenzie, David J.; Rohorua, Halahingano; … - 2015
We examine the long-term impacts of international migration by comparing immigrants who had successful ballot entries in a migration lottery program, and first moved almost a decade ago, with people who had unsuccessful entries into those same ballots. The long-term gain in income is found to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011387152
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Who is in favor of immigration
Epstein, Gil S.; Katav-Herz, Shirit - 2019
Population ageing affects most countries, especially developed ones. The elderly have increased in number as a result … increase the labor force and broaden the tax base. Increasing immigration has a variety of effects on the local population … attractiveness of immigration as a solution to population ageing. This paper examines immigration as a solution to the problem of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012019277
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Unemployment, immigration, and populism
Chen, Shuai - 2023
This paper examines how unemployment and cultural anxiety have triggered different dimensions of the current populism in the United States. Specifically, I exploit the Great Recession (GR) and the 2014 Northern Triangle immigrant influx (IM) to investigate the effects of recent unemployment and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014442290
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Natural experiment evidence on the effect of migration on blood pressure and hypertension
Gibson, John K.; Stillman, Steven; McKenzie, David J.; … - 2010
Over 200 million people live outside their country of birth and experience large gains in material well-being by moving to where wages are higher. But the effect of this migration on health is less clear and existing evidence is ambiguous because of the potential for selfselection bias. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009153061
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Miserable migrants? : natural experiment evidence on international migration and objective and subjective well-being
Stillman, Steven; Gibson, John K.; McKenzie, David J.; … - 2012
Over 200 million people worldwide live outside their country of birth and typically experience large gains in material well-being by moving to where incomes are higher. But effects of migration on subjective well-being are less clear, with some studies suggesting that migrants are miserable in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009627336
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The long-term impact of international migration on economic decision-making : evidence from a migration lottery and lab-in-the-field experiments
Gibson, John K.; McKenzie, David J.; Rohorua, Halahingano; … - 2016
We study how migration from a poor to a rich country affects key economic beliefs, preference parameters, and transnational household decision-making efficiency. Our setting is the migration of Tongans to New Zealand through a migration lottery program. In a ten-year follow-up survey of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011518134
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Religiosity and migration : travel into one's self versus travel across cultures
Aleksynska, Mariya; Chiswick, Barry R. - 2011
This paper examines differences in religious behaviors of the native born and immigrants in Europe, measured as self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009307590