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The macroeconomic impact of international migration
Barwell, Richard - In: Quarterly bulletin / Bank of England 47 (2007) 1, pp. 48-59
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Demographic and Economic Pressure on Emigration out of Africa
Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2001
Two of the main forces driving European emigration in the late nineteenth century were real wage gaps between sending and receiving regions and demographic booms in the low-wage sending regions (directly augmenting the supply of potential movers as well as indirectly making already-measured...
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Crossing the border: Self-selection, earnings and individual migration decisions
Bertoli, Simone; Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Jesús; … - 2010
Many empirical studies on the determinants of international migration flows rely exclusively on macro data, and do not account for migrants' self-selection. We analyze a very interesting episode in international migration for which we are able to gather individual-level data covering all...
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Active inclusion of immigrants in Poland
Duszczyk, Maciej; Góra, Marek - 2012
Poland has traditionally been treated as an emigration country. Since recently Poland has been changing into an … on immigration to Poland and instruments of integration policy in the context of the existing institutional framework. We … propose also recommendations for the pre-integration and integration policy in Poland. The goal of the paper is modest since …
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Are Muslim immigrants different in terms of cultural integration?
Bisin, Alberto; Patacchini, Eleonora; Verdier, Thierry; … - 2007
Using the UK Fourth National Survey of Ethnic Minorities, we explore the determinants of religious identity for Muslims and non-Muslims. We find that Muslims integrate less and more slowly than non-Muslims. A Muslim born in the UK and having spent there more than 50 years shows a comparable...
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Immigration and the distribution of incomes
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2012
We review research on the impact of immigration on income distribution. We discuss routes through which immigration can affect income distribution in the host and source countries, including compositional effects and effects on native incomes. Immigration may affect the composition of skills...
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Immigration from the Eastern Block and the former Soviet Union to Israel: Who is coming when?
Locher, Lilo - 2000
Average education of new immigrants from the East European countries and the former Soviet Union (FSU) in Israel declined during the last ten years. I present a simple two-period model of migration with uncertainty about future conditions in both countries and estimate a reduced form, using data...
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South-south migration: the impact of Nicaraguan immigrants on earnings, inequality and poverty in Costa Rica
Gindling, T. H. - 2008
More than half of those who emigrate from developing countries move to other developing countries, yet there have been few studies of the impact of this South-South migration. In this paper, we examine the impact of migration from one developing country, Nicaragua, on the labor market in another...
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Who leaves and who returns? Deciphering immigrant self-selection from a developing country
Akee, Randall K. Q. - 2007
Existing research examining the self-selection of immigrants suffers from a lack of information on the immigrants' labor force activities in the home country, quotas limiting who is allowed to enter the destination country, and non-economic factors such as internal civil strife in the home...
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Immigration policies and the ecuadorian exodus
Bertoli, Simone; Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Jesús; … - 2010
Ecuador experienced an unprecedented wave of international migration since the late 1990s, triggered by a severe economic and financial crisis. This paper gathers individual-level data from Ecuador and the two main destinations of Ecuadorian migrants: the US and Spain. First, we provide a...
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