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Remittances, migrants' education and immigration policy: Theory and evidence from bilateral data
Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel; Salomone, Sara - 2011
capital with two dimensions of immigration policy: restrictiveness, and selectivity. The model predicts that the relationship … between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The … effect of education is more likely to be positive when the immigration policy is more restrictive and less skill …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282554
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Optimal Education Policy and Human Capital Accumulation in the Context of Brain Drain
Djajic, Slobodan; Docquier, Frédéric; Michael, Michael S. - 2018
. As a further contribution, we study the interaction between the optimal immigration policy of the host country and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931771
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Brain Drain and LDCs? Growth: Winners and Losers
Beine, Michel; Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel - 2003
We present an empirical evaluation of the growth effects of the brain drain for the source countries of migrants. Using recent US data on migration rates by education levels (Carrington and Detragiache, 1998), we find empirical support for the ?beneficial brain drain hypothesis? in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261555
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Remittances, Migrants' Education and Immigration Policy: Theory and Evidence from Bilateral Data
Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel; Salomone, Sara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
capital with two dimensions of immigration policy: restrictiveness, and selectivity. The model predicts that the relationship … between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The … effect of education is more likely to be positive when the immigration policy is more restrictive and less skill …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009369415
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Brain Drain and LDCs’ Growth: Winners and Losers
Beine, Michel; Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
We present an empirical evaluation of the growth effects of the brain drain for the source countries of migrants. Using recent US data on migration rates by education levels (Carrington and Detragiache, 1998), we find empirical support for the ”beneficial brain drain hypothesis” in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763849
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The labor market effects of immigration and emigration in OECD countries
Docquier, Frédéric; Ozden, Caglar; Peri, Giovanni - 2011
In this paper, we simulate the labor market effects of net immigration and emigration during the 1990's in all OECD … wage effects of immigration and emigration. We use a range of parameter values spanning most of the estimates in the … literature. In all cases we find that immigration had a positive effect on the wage of less educated natives. It also increased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282560
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The Changing Structure of Immigration to the OECD: What Welfare Effects on Member Countries?
Burzynski, Michal; Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel - 2018
We investigate the welfare implications of two pre-crisis immigration waves (1991– 2000 and 2001–2010) and of the post … channels of transmission of immigration shocks – the employment and wage effects, the fiscal effect, and the market size effect …-country heterogeneity in the economic benefits from immigration. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931575
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Should the US have locked the heaven's door? Reassessing the benefits of the postwar immigration
Chojnicki, Xavier; Docquier, Frédéric; Ragot, Lionel - 2005
This paper examines the economic impact of the second great immigration wave (1945-2000) on the US economy. Contrary to … recent studies, we estimate that immigration induced important net gains and small redistributive effects among natives. Our … method to calibrate the model on historical data and then consider two counterfactual variants: a cutoff of all immigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267654
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Should the U.S. Have Locked the Heaven’s Door? Reassessing the Benefits of the Postwar Immigration
Chojnicki, Xavier; Docquier, Frédéric; Ragot, Lionel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
This paper examines the economic impact of the second great immigration wave (1945- 2000) on the US economy. Contrary … to recent studies, we estimate that immigration induced important net gains and small redistributive effects among … immigration flows since 1950 and a stronger selection policy. According to our simulations, the postwar US immigration is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566746