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Recruiting agents, or "programs" costly screen "applicants" in matching processes, and congestion in a market increases with the number of applicants to be screened. To combat this externality that applicants impose on programs, application costs can be used as a Pigouvian tax. Higher costs...
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This paper examines whether family and community migration experience affect theprobability of high school graduation …
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This paper analyses the determinants and correlates of different forms of migration, including circular, temporary and … believe that understanding who moves and whether temporarily or circularly will help formulate more effective migration …
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origin countries, it also induces positive effects through various channels such as remittances, return migration, diaspora … praise the unambiguous benefits of unskilled migration for developing countries, my analysis suggests that a limited but …
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This paper sheds light on the apparent paradox, wherein populations adversely affected by climatic conditions fail to migrate as much as would otherwise be expected. Drawing on Hirschman's treatise on Exit, Voice and Loyalty, we develop a simple model, which highlights the theoretical case for a...
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Katz and Rapoport (2005) conclude that with linear production technology and the possibility of unilateral migration … result with Cobb-Douglas technology and migration which may go in both directions. This paper shows that the exit option may …
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substitution of immigrants for natives; (ii) out-migration; and (iii) stimulation of labor demand. According to (iii), native wages …
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its size and welfare impact, and b) examines the impact of international migration as well as the migration …-South migration raises bloc size and welfare; iv) South-South migration and trade are complements under market access negotiations and …This paper provides a different basis than previous analyses for regional bloc formation and regional migration. Due to …
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The paper assesses the global effects of brain drain on developing economies and quantifies the relative sizes of various static and dynamic impacts. By constructing a unified generic framework characterized by overlapping-generations dynamics and calibrated to real data, this study incorporates...
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Since the early 1990s many empirical studies have been conducted on the impact of international migration on …
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