Similar Search Results

Two Centuries of International Migration

Ferrie, Joseph P. - 2014

This is a draft chapter for B. R. Chiswick and P. W. Miller (eds.) Handbook on the Economics of International Migration. It provides an overview of trends and developments in international migration since the industrial revolution. We focus principally on long-distance migration to rich...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013061054

Terrorism, Immigration and Asylum Approval

Brodeur, Abel - 2019

Using the universe of individual asylum cases in the United States from 2000-2004 and a difference-in-differences research design, we test whether Sept. 11, 2001 decreased the likelihood that applicants from Muslim-majority countries were granted asylum. Our estimates suggest that the attacks...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861315

The Evils of Forced Migration : Do Integration Policies Alleviate Migrants' Economic Situations?

Falck, Oliver - 2011

especially true for developing countries. After World War II, about 8 million ethnic Germans experienced a similar situation when …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122685

Migration Policy, African Population Growth and Global Inequality

Mountford, Andrew - 2014

According to recent UN projections more than 50 percent of the growth in world population over the next half century … significant impact on the world distribution of income. In this paper we discuss the potential for migration policies to affect … more or less restrictive/selective migration policies and derive their implications for the evolution of world inequality …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050612

The Economics of Internal Migration : Advances and Policy Questions

Jia, Ning; Molloy, Raven; Smith, Christopher L.; … - 2022

We review developments in research on within-country migration, focusing on internal migration in the U.S. We begin by describing approaches to modelling individuals' migration decisions and equilibrium outcomes across local areas. Next, we summarize evidence regarding the impact of migration on...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083889

The Role of Income and Immigration Policies in Attracting International Migrants

Ortega, Francesc - 2012

This paper makes two contributions to the literature on the determinants of international migration flows. First, we compile a new dataset on annual bilateral migration flows covering 15 OECD destination countries and 120 sending countries for the period 1980-2006. We also collect data on...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104662

Why U.S. Immigration Barriers Matter for the Global Advancement of Science

Agarwal, Ruchir; Ganguli, Ina; Gaule, Patrick; Smith, Geoff - 2021

This paper studies the impact of U.S. immigration barriers on global knowledge production. We present four key findings. First, among Nobel Prize winners and Fields Medalists, migrants to the U.S. play a central role in the global knowledge network— representing 20-33% of the frontier...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013251541