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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. -- The prospect of … migration ; Sticky wages ; "Educated unemployment" ; Government intervention …
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This paper studies the growth dynamics of a developing country under migration. Assuming that human capital formation … is subject to a strong enough, positive intertemporal externality, the prospect of migration will increase growth in the … human capital in the home country. In either case, the home country experiences a welfare gain, provided that migration is …
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We draw a distinction between the social integration and economic assimilation of migrants, and study an interaction between the two. We define social integration as blending into the host country’s society, and economic assimilation as acquisition of human capital that is specific to the host...
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In the model of Stark et al. (1997, 1998), the possibility of employment in a developed country raises the level of human capital acquired by workers in the developing country. We show that this result holds even when workers have the option to save. -- Human capital formation ; Savings ;...
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Strong ties with the home country and with the host country can coexist. An altruistic migrant who sends remittances to his family back home assimilates more the more altruistic he is, and also more than a non-remitting migrant. -- Assimilation of migrants ; Acculturation identity ; Links with...
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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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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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A migration network is modeled as a mutually beneficial cooperative agreement between financially …-constrained individuals who seek to finance and expedite their migration. The cooperation agreement creates a network: "established" migrants … contract to support the subsequent migration of others in exchange for receiving support themselves. When the model is expanded …
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