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Social remittances
Tuccio, Michele; Wahba, Jackline - 2020
This article reviews the economic literature on social remittances. Unlike financial remittances, which are flows of cash or goods sent by migrants to their origin countries, social remittances refer to economic, social, political attitudes, behaviours and norms that are transmitted through...
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International migration as driver of political and social change : evidence from Morocco
Tuccio, Michele; Wahba, Jackline; Hamdouch, Bachir - 2019
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....
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Diluted blood still better than water? : the beneficial effects of politicians' birthplaces on refugee acceptance
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Trong Anh Trinh - 2023
In parliamentary systems, elected representatives often have power to direct resources to their preferred areas. Foreign-born politicians, those who were born in countries other than the country where they hold policymaking positions, may exhibit a strong preference for refugees. We provide the...
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Human capital and climate change
Angrist, Noam; Winseck, Kevin; Patrinos, Harry Anthony; … - 2023
-climate beliefs, behaviors, policy preferences, and novel data on voting for green parties - a particularly consequential outcome to …, and green voting, with voting gains equivalent to a substantial 35% increase. …
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An exploratory study of populism : the municipality-level predictors of electoral outcomes in Italy
Levi, Eugenio; Patriarca, Fabrizio - 2019
We present an exploratory machine learning analysis of populist votes at municipality level in the 2018 Italian general elections, in which populist parties gained almost 50% of the votes. Starting from a comprehensive set of local characteristics, we use an algorithm based on BIC to obtain a...
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Hate at first sight? : dynamic aspects of the electoral impact of migration : the case of Ukip
Levi, Eugenio; Mariani, Rama Dasi; Patriarca, Fabrizio - 2019
In this paper, we test the hypothesis that the causal effect of immigrant presence on anti-immigrant votes is a short-run effect. For this purpose, we consider a distributed lag model and adapt the standard instrumental variable approach proposed by Altonji and Card (1991) to a dynamic...
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A political economy and voicing model of the institutional impact of brain drain, human capital, inequality and country size
Docquier, Frédéric; Schiff, Maurice W. - 2021
Brain drain BD, human capital h, and inequality's institutional impact is examined in a model where a rent …-shaped function of h, with minimum at 0 < h1 < 1; iii) the likelihood that Q improves with BD falls with international inequality; iv …) the likelihood that Q improves with h falls with domestic inequality; v) the likelihood Q improves with h falls (rises …
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Europe's migration experience and its effects on economic inequality
Guzi, Martin; Kahanec, Martin; Ulceluse, Magdalena M. - 2021
between migration and economic development and inequality. The literature review suggests that there are several channels … through which migration affects economic inequality between countries in one or the other direction. The net effects are an …. We undertake an empirical analysis and find that immigration has contributed to reducing inequality within the 25 EU …
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Job status, international migration and educational choice
Abdulloev, Ilhom; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2020
We consider how the possibility of international migration affects an individual’s educational choices in their home country. Without the opportunity to emigrate abroad people choose their educational investment (and hence their skill level) as we might expect, taking into account the utility...
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Schooling forsaken : education and migration
Abdulloev, Ilhom; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2020
We examine the phenomenon of forsaken schooling resulting from opportunities abroad. The brain-drain/gain literature takes as its starting point the migration of educated/professional labor from poor origin countries to richer host countries. While high-skilled emigration is troubling, even more...
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