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Skilled migration and the transfer of institutional norms

Beine, Michel; Sekkat, Khalid - In: IZA Journal of Migration 2 (2013), pp. 1-19

We examine two impacts of international emigration on the evolution of the institutions in the origin countries. The first impact concerns the influence of emigration per se (i.e. people who left the country can voice more or less from abroad). The second impact relates to the transfer of the...

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International knowledge flows and technological advance: The role of migration

Douglas, Kacey N. - In: IZA Journal of Migration 4 (2015), pp. 1-16

This paper investigates whether knowledge flows from host to source country as a result of migration, alleviating the negative effects associated with outward migration. Using a fixed effects Poisson regression, patent citations are used as a proxy for knowledge flows and regressed on...

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Migration, entrepreneurship and development: Critical questions

Naudé, Wim; Siegel, Melissa; Marchand, Katrin - In: IZA Journal of Migration 6 (2017) 5, pp. 1-16

entrepreneurship in the process of economic development. In doing so, we show that the standard policy response to migrants and migrant … the answers, (iv) Does migration matter for development? We conclude that one must avoid seeing migrants as super … development in both sending and receiving countries, not least through reducing the shares of migrants that are reluctant …

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Where is the grass greener? A micro-founded model of migration with application to Guangdong

Simmons, Peter; Xie, Yuanyuan - In: IZA Journal of Migration 2 (2013), pp. 1-23

This paper first develops a structural micro-founded model of aggregate net migration flow using matching ideas to study how migrants choose between multiple locations using multiple criteria. Migration should reduce inequality in the criteria. Most migration models either do not handle multiple...

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How skilled immigration may improve economic equality

Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: IZA Journal of Migration 3 (2014), pp. 1-13

Mobile workers involve flows of labor and human capital and contribute to a more efficient allocation of resources. However, migration also changes relative wages, alters the distribution of skills and affects equality in the receiving society. The paper suggests that skilled immigration...

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Remittances, school quality, and household education expenditures in Nepal

Bansak, Cynthia; Chezum, Brian; Giri, Animesh - In: IZA Journal of Migration 4 (2015), pp. 1-19

A heightened interest in understanding the remitting practices of immigrants and their impact on a variety of economic indicators has emerged as remittances to developing countries have risen substantially over the past decade. If remittances primarily enhance consumption, they may have no...

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Migration and educational aspirations: Another channel of brain gain?

Böhme, Marcus H. - In: IZA Journal of Migration 4 (2015), pp. 1-24

International migration not only enables individuals to earn higher wages but also exposes them to new environments. The norms and values experienced in destination countries can change the behavior of migrants and also of family members left behind. This paper suggests that brain gain can take...

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Does aid induce brain drain? A panel data analysis

Ontiveros, Darwin Ugarte; Veradi, Vincenzo - In: IZA Journal of Migration 1 (2012), pp. 1-19

the other hand, aid targeted to development enhancement affects both categories but seems to have a larger effect on the …

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Does aid induce brain drain? A panel data analysis

Ontiveros, Darwin Ugarte; Verardi, Vincenzo - In: IZA Journal of Migration 1 (2012) 1, pp. 1-19

F35, F22, C23 </AbstractSection> Copyright Ugarte Ontiveros and Verardi; licensee Springer. 2012

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From immigrants to (non-)citizens: political economy of naturalisations in Latvia

Ivļevs, Artjoms; King, Roswitha M. - In: IZA Journal of Migration 1 (2012), pp. 1-23

We study the determinants of the willingness to acquire citizenship of Latvia by 'non-citizens' - the former Soviet migrants and their descendants born on the territory of Latvia. The country of Latvia serves as an instructive laboratory for the analysis of naturalisations: due to the centrally...

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