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Remittances, school quality, and household education expenditures in Nepal
Bansak, Cynthia; Chezum, Brian; Giri, Animesh - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 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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How skilled immigration may improve economic equality
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-13
. However, migration also changes relative wages, alters the distribution of skills and affects equality in the receiving …
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The working hours of immigrants in Germany : temporary versus permanent
Kahanec, Martin; Shields, Michael P. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-15
Migration is often viewed as an investment decision. Temporary migrants can be expected to invest less in accumulating …
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Migration, risk attitudes, and entrepreneurship : evidence from a representative immigrant survey
Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-25
Do more risk loving migrants opt for self-employment? We use a novel vignette-adjusted measure of risk preferences to investigate the link between risk aversion and entrepreneurship in migrant communities. Using an original representative household survey of the migrant population in the Greater...
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Better migrants, better PISA results : findings from a natural experiment
Cattaneo, Maria Alejandra; Wolter, Stefan C. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-19
Switzerland changed its migration policy in the 1990s from a "non-qualified only" policy to one of almost free movement …
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Earnings differentials between immigrants and natives : the role of occupational attainment
Dell'Aringa, Carlo; Lucifora, Claudio; Pagani, Laura - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-18
This paper brings new evidence to the existing literature on earnings differentials and returns to human capital for immigrants and natives. It is the first paper analysing this topic using data drawn from the Italian Labour Force Survey, a large nationally representative dataset. We show that...
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Source country characteristics and immigrants’ optimal migration duration decision
Kırdar, Murat G. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-21
This paper examines how immigrants’ optimal migration duration in the host country responds to the purchasing power … parity (ppp) and relative wages between the host and source countries. A theoretical model of joint migration duration and … saving decisions reveals that the optimal migration duration decreases in ppp unless the elasticity of intertemporal …
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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 criteria and locations or lack micro foundation. The model …
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Do high-skill immigrants raise productivity? : evidence from Israeli manufacturing firms, 1990-1999
Paserman, Marco Daniele - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-31
This paper exploits the episode provided by the mass migration from the former Soviet Union to Israel in the 1990s to …
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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 : IZAJOM 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...
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