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This paper updates and extends the Docquier-Marfouk data set on international migration byeducational attainment. We …
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This paper examines whether family and community migration experience affect theprobability of high school graduation …
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examining the correlates of out-migration for children under 15whose mother's reside in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, India. 1 …
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migration on sending families. We report the results of an experimentdesigned to compare the performance of three alternative …
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include a standardized measure of immigrants' pre-migration wage based on occupation, industry, tenure, qualification, and the … partial. A 10% higher pre-migration wage translates into a 1.6% higher wage in Germany when also controlling for educational … market. We also find that wage assimilation is significantly accelerated for immigrants with a higher pre-migration wage. Our …
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In seeking economic immigrants, especially those who are skilled, entrepreneurial and with capital to invest, a settler country such as New Zealand has assumed that national and city labour markets/economies will gain by adding to the human capital pool as well as creating new 'economic'...
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This paper investigates the effects of labour migration and openness to trade on regional skill endowments across the … using a random spatial effect model. We find that migration contributes to convergence in regional skill endowments across …
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This paper studies the migration response of the youth from new EU member states to disparate conditions in an enlarged … duration. We find that migration intentions are high among those not married and among males with children, but both categories … are also overrepresented among people with only temporary as opposed to long-term or permanent migration plans. Whereas …
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This paper studies the respective influence of intergenerational transmission and the environment in shaping individual trust. Focusing on second generation immigrants in Australia and the United States, we exploit the variation in the home and in the host country to separate the effect of the...
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with land-intensive production in the non-tradable goods sector (housing). To capture the response to migration on housing … due to increased housing costs, landowners may win. Moreover, we show how the relationship between migration and capital … reversal of migration during the transition to the steady state, like observed in East Germany after unification in 1990. It is …
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