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Migration, entrepreneurship and development : critical questions
Naudé, Wim; Siegel, Melissa; Marchand, Katrin - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 6 (2016) 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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Does intermarriage change migrants’ preferences for the home country?
Weber, Rosa - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-21
Motivations for migrants to return clearly change with integration, but the time-changing aspect of return migration has received little attention in the literature. This paper studies how migrants' preferences for the home country change with intermarriage, i.e., marriage to a spouse from the...
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Spain : from massive immigration to vast emigration?
Izquierdo, Mario; Jimeno, Juan F.; Lacuesta, Aitor - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 5 (2016) 10, pp. 1-20
emigration rates growing, thus counterbalancing the effects of outflows due to the recent fall in the unemployment rate. …
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The productivity of return migrants : the case of China’s "Sea Turtles"
Sun, Wei - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-19
’s economic development, I discuss why the presumably better human capital accumulated overseas does not translate into …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010148479
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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 : IZAJOM 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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The effects of international migration on the well-being of native populations in Europe
Betz, William; Simpson, Nicole B. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-21
Very little is understood about how immigrants affect the happiness, or subjective well-being of natives. We use the European Social Survey to analyze the effects of aggregate immigration flows on the subjective well-being of native-born populations in a panel of 26 countries between 2002 and...
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The effects of international migration on the well-being of native populations in Europe
Betz, William; Simpson, Nicole B. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-21
Very little is understood about how immigrants affect the happiness, or subjective well-being of natives. We use the European Social Survey to analyze the effects of aggregate immigration flows on the subjective well-being of native-born populations in a panel of 26 countries between 2002 and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009786218
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Where is the grass greener? : a micro-founded model of migration with application to Guangdong
Simmons, Peter J.; Xie, Yuanyuan - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009758599
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The productivity of return migrants : the case of China’s "Sea Turtles"
Sun, Wei - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-19
’s economic development, I discuss why the presumably better human capital accumulated overseas does not translate into …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009758645
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International migration desires related to subjective well-being
Cai, Ruohong; Esipova, Neli; Oppenheimer, Michael; … - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-20
Previous research on the determinants of international migration has largely focused on objective factors, such as income. We instead use subjective well-being (SWB) to explain international migration desires, an expressed willingness to migrate. We find that individuals with higher SWB have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010372455