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International Migration, Remittances, and Household Investment : Evidence from Philippine Migrants' Exchange Rate Shocks
Yang, Dean - 2010
the Philippine peso leads to increases in household remittances received from overseas. The estimated elasticity of … Philippine-peso remittances with respect to the Philippine/foreign exchange rate is 0.60. These positive income shocks lead to …
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A Global View of Cross-Border Migration
di Giovanni, Julian - 2014
differences, international trade, remittances, and a heterogeneous workforce. We compare welfare under the observed levels of … flows - such as Jamaica or El Salvador - are also better off due to migration, but for a different reason: remittances. The …% in countries with large incoming remittances. Our results are robust to accounting for imperfect transferability of …
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The Wage Effects of Immigration and Emigration
Docquier, Frédéric - 2010
In this paper, we simulate the long-run effects of migrant flows on wages of high-skilled and low-skilled non-migrants in a set of countries using an aggregate model of national economies. New in this literature we calculate the wage effect of emigration as well as immigration. We focus on...
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International Migration and Human Rights
Hanson, Gordon H. - 2010
Freedom of movement is considered a basic human right by the majority of countries of the world. As defined in practice, it encompasses the right to move internally within a country, the right to move abroad, and the right to return from abroad. It does not include the right of an individual...
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Welfare Magnet Hypothesis, Fiscal Burden and Immigration Skill Selectivity
Razin, Assaf - 2011
This paper revisits the magnet hypothesis and investigates the impact of the welfare generosity on the difference between skilled and unskilled migration rates. The main purpose of the paper is to assess the role of mobility restriction on shaping the effect of the welfare state genrosity. In a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119301
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Substitution between Individual and Cultural Capital : Pre-Migration Labor Supply, Culture and Us Labor Market Outcomes Among Immigrant Women
Blau, Francine D. - 2011
In this paper we use New Immigrant Survey data to investigate the impact of immigrant women's own labor supply prior to migrating and female labor supply in their source country to provide evidence on the role of human capital and culture in affecting their labor supply and wages in the United...
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Fear, Unemployment and Migration
Blanchflower, David G. - 2007
UK population growth over the past thirty-five years has been remarkably low in comparison with other countries; the population grew by just 7% between 1971 and 2004, less than all the other EU15 countries. The UK population has grown at a faster pace since the turn of the millennium. Both the...
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Effects of Low-Skilled Immigration on U.S. Natives : Evidence from Hurricane Mitch
Kugler, Adriana D. - 2010
In the 1980s the composition of immigrants to the U.S. shifted towards less-skilled workers. Around this time, real wages and employment of younger and less-educated U.S. workers fell. Some blame recent immigration shifts for the misfortunes of unskilled workers in the U.S. OLS estimates using...
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The Great Mexican Emigration
Hanson, Gordon H. - 2010
In this paper, we examine net emigration from Mexico over the period 1960 to 2000. The data are consistent with labor-supply shocks having made a substantial contribution to Mexican emigration, accounting for two fifths of Mexican labor flows to the U.S. over the last two decades of the 20th...
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Immigration and National Wages : Clarifying the Theory and the Empirics
Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P. - 2008
This paper estimates the effects of immigration on wages of native workers at the national U.S. level. Following Borjas (2003) we focus on national labor markets for workers of different skills and we enrich his methodology and refine previous estimates. We emphasize that a production function...
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