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Immigrant supply of marketable child care and native fertility in Italy
Mariani, Rama Dasi; Rosati, Furio Camillo - 2021
The availability of child-care services has often been advocated as one of the instruments to counter the fertility … increased the supply of child-care services. In this paper we examine if the flow of immigrants as actually affected fertility … child-care services by immigrants has positively affected native fertility choice. …
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The impact of family size and sibling structure on the great Mexico-U.S. migration
Bratti, Massimiliano; Fiore, Simona; Mendola, Mariapia - 2019
We investigate how fertility and demographic factors affect migration at the household level by assessing the causal … population of Mexico and exploit presumably exogenous variation in family size induced by biological fertility and infertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149253
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Walls and fences : a journey through history and economics
Vernon, Victoria; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2020 - Pre-publication draft July 2020
Throughout history, border walls and fences have been built for defense, to claim land, to signal power, and to control migration. The costs of fortifications are large while the benefits are questionable. The recent trend of building walls and fences signals a paradox: In spite of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012249714
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Walls and fences : a journey through history and economics
Vernon, Victoria; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2019
Throughout history, border walls and fences have been built for defense, to claim land, to signal power, and to control migration. The costs of fortifications are large while the benefits are questionable. The recent trend of building walls and fences signals a paradox: In spite of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161476
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Immigration and unemployment in Europe : does the core-periphery dualism matter?
Esposito, Piero; Collignon, Stefan; Scicchitano, Sergio - 2019
In this paper, we assess the impact of immigration and unemployment for a sample of 15 EU countries between 1997 and 2016. We test for the existence of a core-periphery dualism based on differences in macroeconomic fundamentals and labour market characteristics. We use a Panel Error Correction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012162043
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Long-term relatedness between countries and international migrant selection
Krieger, Tim; Renner, Laura; Ruhose, Jens - 2018 - This version: March 2018
This paper studies the effect of the long-term relatedness between countries, measured by their genetic distance, on educational migrant selection. Analyzing bilateral migrant stocks of the 15 main destination countries and 85 sending countries for the year 2000, we find that migrant selection...
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The supply of foreign talent : how skill-biased technology drives the location choice and skills of new immigrants
Beerli, Andreas; Indergand, Ronald; Kunz, Johannes - 2021
An important goal of immigration policy is to facilitate the entry of foreignborn workers whose skills are in short supply in national labor markets. In recent decades, information and communication technology [ICT] has fueled the demand for highly educated workers at the expense of lower...
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Longing for which home : evidence from global aspirations to stay, return or migrate onwards
Bekaert, Els; Constant, Amelie; Foubert, Killian; … - 2021
Aspirations provide the underlying dynamics of the behavior of individuals whether they are realized or not. Knowledge about the characteristics and motives of those who aspire to leave the host country is key for both host and home countries to formulate appropriate and effective policies in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012619394
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Climate shocks, migration, and labor markets : a gender analysis from West Africa
El-Mallakh, Nelly; Wodon, Quentin - 2021
This paper investigates the effects of shocks, predominantly climate shocks, on labor market outcomes in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU). We focus on migration ows within the WAEMU countries to disentangle the differential effects of shocks on migrants and non-migrants. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012648528
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Managing the impact of climate on migration : evidence from Mexico
Chort, Isabelle; De La Rupelle, Maëlys - 2022
While there is a growing literature on the impact of climate and weather-related events on migration, little is known about the mitigating effect of different policies directed to the agricultural sector, or aimed at insuring against environmental disasters. This paper uses state-level data on...
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