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information, and intensified communication between regions and countries brought about, for example, by intensified trade links … strengthens their inclination to resort to migration as a means of reducing this heightened stress. Other things held constant …
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We study policies that are aimed at retaining a migrant workforce in a Gulf State while introducing a tax on migrant earnings. We single out Qatar as a case study. We consider two types of migrants: target migrants, and non-target migrants. If migrants are target migrants, we show that in order...
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, under certain conditions, elect to restrict the extent of the migration of educated individuals. …
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. The paper shows that a marginal prospect of migration by engineers increases human capital accumulation of both types of … of the said prospect of migration, including the engineers who lose the migration lottery, and even the individuals who …
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We relate to others in two important ways: we care about others, and we care about how we fare in comparison to others. In some contexts, these two forms of relatedness interact. Caring about others can conveniently be labeled altruism. Caring about how we fare in comparison with others who fare...
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We ask which migration policy a developed country will choose when its objective is to attain the optimal skill …
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Drawing on a model in which utility is derived from consumption and effort (labor supply), we ask how the deportation of a number of undocumented migrants influences the decisions regarding labor supply, consumption, and savings of the remaining undocumented migrants. We assume that the...
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Received research shows numerous motives for migration, but fewer reasons for return migration. This paper aims to … correct this imbalance. Twelve reasons for return migration are presented and discussed briefly. The reasons listed are … derived from research on migration conducted by the author in the course of the past three and a half decades. The purpose of …
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skills or produce them. Skill import may result in large-scale migration, which will not be to the liking of the natives … paper we suggest a third response: impose a substantial migration admission fee, "import" fee-paying workers regardless of …
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In this paper we study the impact of the international migration of unskilled workers on skill formation and the … of its effect on the supply of skills at home: namely, migration exclusively by unskilled workers. Somewhat surprisingly … accumulate more human capital than before the opening up to migration of unskilled workers, the number and share of skilled …
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