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Monitoring, endogenous comparative advantage, and immigration

Qirjo, Dhimitri - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-22

determine the pattern of international trade. However, individuals' decisions to emigrate depend only on the national … international labor movement promotes international trade. …

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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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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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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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Migration, entrepreneurship and development : critical questions

Naudé, Wim; Siegel, Melissa; Marchand, Katrin - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 6 (2016) 5, pp. 1-16

This paper poses and answers a number of critical questions about the relationship between migration and … the answers, (iv) Does migration matter for development? We conclude that one must avoid seeing migrants as super …-entrepreneurs and that the (positive) developmental impact of migration is more significant through other channels. Removal of …

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International knowledge flows and technological advance : the role of migration

Douglas, Kacey N. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 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 … robust to different parameter changes in the model. These results suggest that reverse knowledge flows from outward migration …

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Ethnic identity : a theoretical framework

Epstein, Gil S.; Heizler, Odelia - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-11

We present a basic theoretical framework of ethnic identity, i.e., the level of immigrant's commitment to his or her host society as well as the immigrant's commitment to his or her home society. Our model can explain the emerging empirical literature which studies the effect of the immigrants'...

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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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