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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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EU enlargement and the race to the bottom of welfare states
Skupnik, Christoph - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-21
the bottom in benefit levels. Using EU-LFS data, I analyze the determinants of migration flows and do not find evidence … that welfare state variables affect migration flows when controlling for temporary political restrictions of the freedom of … restrictions offset the migration incentive effects of work-related pull factors. …
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Projections of potential flows to the enlarging EU from Ukraine, Croatia and other Eastern neighbors
Fertig, Michael; Kahanec, Martin - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-27
This study evaluates potential migration flows to the European Union from its Eastern neighbors and Croatia. We perform … out-of-sample forecasts to time series cross-sectional data about post-enlargement migration flows following the EU's 2004 … show that migration flows are driven by migration costs and economic conditions, but the largest effects accrue to policy …
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Labour mobility and labour market adjustment in the EU
Arpaia, Alfonso; Kiss, Áron; Palvolgyi, Balazs; … - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 5 (2016) 21, pp. 1-21
This paper assesses the role of labour mobility in the adjustment to asymmetric economic shocks in the EU. After presenting a series of stylised facts of mobility in the EU, it assesses mobility as a channel of economic adjustment by means of a vector autoregression (VAR) analysis in the vein of...
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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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