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Remittances and the brain drain revisited: The microdata show that more educated migrants remit more
Bollard, Albert; Morten, Melanie; Rapoport, Hillel - 2009
Two of the most salient trends surrounding the issue of migration and development over the last two decades are the … large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross …-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit less, leading to concerns that further increases in skilled migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335976
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Brain drain and development traps
Bénassy, Jean-Pascal; Brézis, Elise S. - 2011
endogenous international migration into a simple growth model. As a result the dynamics of the economy can feature some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335994
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Remittances, migrants' education and immigration policy: Theory and evidence from bilateral data
Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel; Salomone, Sara - 2011
-selective. These predictions are then tested empirically using bilateral remittance and migration data and proxy measures for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336074
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Do Migrants Facilitate Internationalization? A Review of the Literature
Hatzigeorgiou, Andreas; Lodefalk, Magnus - 2018
How migration relates to internationalization has been a prominent question in international economics for a long time … and its relevance for policy has increased with the amplified political focus on migration. But the role of migration for … internationalization is not as obvious as the standard theory suggests, and tightening migration could have unexpected consequences for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012654439
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Long-term benefits from temporary migration: Does the gender of the migrant matter?
DeSilva, Sanjaya - 2013
the long-term impact of temporary labor migration. We use a propensity score matching (PSM) framework to compare … outcomes. Our results show that households that send women abroad are relatively poor and utilize migration to catch up with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318675
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The role of housing in labor reallocation
Davis, Morris A.; Fisher, Jonas D. M.; Veracierto, Marcelo - 2010
This paper builds a dynamic general equilibrium model of cities and uses it to analyze the role of local housing markets and moving costs in determining the character and extent of labor reallocation in the US economy. Labor reallocation in the model is driven by idiosyncratic city-specific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292111
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The labor market experience and impact of undocumented workers
Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Quispe-Agnoli, Myriam - 2008
Using administrative data from the state of Georgia, the authors find that average wages among documented workers are lower in industries that employ undocumented workers and that a greater share of undocumented workers in those industries further lowers wages. In addition, undocumented workers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292246
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Optimal quota for sector-specific immigration
Mayr, Karin - 2008
Sectoral labor supply shortage is a cause of concern in many OECD countries and has raised support for immigration as a potential remedy. In this paper, we derive a general equilibrium model with overlapping generations, where natives require a compensating wage differential for working in one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294883
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Task specialization, immigration, and wages
Peri, Giovanni; Sparber, Chad - 2008
Many workers with low levels of educational attainment immigrated to the United States in recent decades. Large inflows of less educated immigrants would reduce wages paid to comparably-educated native-born workers if the two groups are perfectly substitutable in production. In a simple model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266371
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Rethinking the gains from immigration: theory and evidence from the US
Peri, Giovanni; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P. - 2005
Recent influential empirical work has emphasized the negative impact immigrants have on the wages of U.S.-born workers, arguing that immigration harms less educated American workers in particular and all U.S.-born workers in general. Because U.S. and foreign born workers belong to different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266388