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investments, reduced unemployment and increased labor migration. In the paper the system dynamics model, which describes …; import, its relation to internal producing; and migration processes are considered. Model functioning is measured considering …
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A theory is developed of labor migration that is prompted by a desire to avoid "social humiliation." In a general … equilibrium framework it is shown that as long as migration can reduce humiliation sufficiently, migration will occur even between … two identical economies. Migration increases the number of individuals who choose to perform degrading jobs and …
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Since 2002, the British Government department responsible for immigration, the Home Office, has claimed immigrants pay £2-5bn more in tax than they withdraw from the public purse. The workings behind this figure omit the cost of the additional infrastructure investments that immigrants...
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This edited collection of migration papers would like to emphasise the acute need for migration related study and … research in Romania. At this time, migration and mobility are studied as minor subjects in Economics, Sociology, Political … Sciences and European Studies only (mostly at post-graduate level). We consider that Romanian universities need more ‘migration …
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For nearly four decades now, the conventional wisdom has been that the migration of human capital (skilled workers … not hold. A well designed migration policy can result in a “brain gain” to the developing country rather than in just a …
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regulations, remittances, asylum and migration as an aggregate process). The convergence/divergence of EU member states …’ priorities for migration policies regulate and even shape directly the migration dynamics in migrant sender countries. From this … standpoint, the research explores how main migration factors are influenced by political and judicial factors such as; rule of …
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motives of migrants who decide to remit back to their families. Drawing on the theory of labor migration under asymmetric … remittances may be seen as an implicit insurance, whose benefits are received only under migration return. …
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This study explores the short-run spillover effects of popular research papers. We consider the publicity of 'Male Organ and Economic Growth: Does Size Matter?' as an exogenous shock to economics discussion paper demand, a natural experiment of a sort. In particular, we analyze how the very...
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This study exploits a new longitudinal dataset to examine selective migration among 1,500 Kenyan youth originally … living in rural areas. We examine whether migration rates are related to individual “ability”, broadly defined to include … due to selection versus actual productivity differences. Whereas previous empirical work has focused on schooling …
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of migration. …
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