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How Has Covid-19 Affected the Intention to Migrate Via the Backway to Europe and to a Neighboring African Country? Survey Evidence and a Salience Experiment in the Gambia
Bah, Tijan; Batista, Catia; Gubert, Flore; McKenzie, … - 2022
country with the highest pre-pandemic per-capita irregular migration rates in Africa. We use a large-scale panel survey … conducted in 2019 and 2020 to compare changes in intentions to migrate to Europe and to neighboring Senegal. We find the … backway to Europe remains high, highlighting the need for legal migration pathways to support migrants and divert them from …
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The Effects of International Migration on the Well-Being of Native Populations in Europe
Betz, William - 2013
With worldwide migration becoming increasingly prevalent in policy agendas over the past several decades, understanding the effects that migrants have on a host country's population continues to be an important research agenda. There is a large literature documenting the effects that migrants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082143
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The European Crisis and Migration to Germany : Expectations and the Diversion of Migration Flows
Bertoli, Simone - 2013
The analysis of how the economic crisis in Europe has reshaped migration flows faces two challenges: (i) the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087414
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Determinants and Dynamics of Forced Migration to Europe : Evidence from a 3-D Model of Flows and Stocks
Brück, Tilman - 2018
Violent conflict is a well-recognised driver of forced migration but literature does not usually consider the pull factors that might also cause irregular movements. In turn, the decision to leave and of where to go are rarely considered separately. This is in contrast to literature on regular...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012909987
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Refugees' and Irregular Migrants' Self-Selection into Europe : Who Migrates Where?
Aksoy, Cevat Giray - 2019
We analyze self-selection of refugees and irregular migrants and test our theory in the context of the European refugee crisis. Using unique datasets from the International Organization for Migration and Gallup World Polls, we provide the first large-scale evidence on reasons to emigrate, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012858487
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Natives' Attitudes and Immigration Flows to Europe
Di Iasio, Valentina; Wahba, Jackline - 2023
This paper examines the effects of natives' anti-immigration attitudes on migration flows to EU countries. We use panel data for migration to the EU between 1995-2018. We address the potential endogeneity between public attitudes and migration flows using instrumental variable techniques. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014261035
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Emigration and Wages : The EU Enlargement Experiment
Elsner, Benjamin - 2011
restrictions on the migrant sending countries. With EU enlargement in 2004, 1.2 million workers from Eastern Europe emigrated to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118058
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Brainy Africans to Fortress Europe : For Money or Colonial Vestiges?
Constant, Amelie F. - 2009
migrate to Fortress Europe over the period of 1990 to 2001. While we find some differences in the exodus of skilled Africans … by sub-regions, the magnitude of the colonial vestige in Africa is a significant determinant of emigration flows. Overall …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153298
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Immigration and Crime : New Empirical Evidence from European Victimization Data
Nunziata, L. - 2014
We exploit the increase in immigration flows into western European countries that took place in the 2000s to assess whether immigration affects crime victimization and the perception of criminality among European natives. Using data from the European Social Survey, the Labour Force Survey and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013043673
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Migration and Culture
Epstein, Gil S. - 2010
Culture is not new to the study of migration. It has lurked beneath the surface for some time, occasionally protruding openly into the discussion, usually under some pseudonym. The authors bring culture into the open. They are concerned with how culture manifests itself in the migration process...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139048