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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 …
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endogenous international migration into a simple growth model. As a result the dynamics of the economy can feature some …
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-selective. These predictions are then tested empirically using bilateral remittance and migration data and proxy measures for the …
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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 …
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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 …
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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...
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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...
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Programs aimed at reducing the presence of unauthorised immigrants are often at the core of the migration policy debate …
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Most previously used measures of immigrant labor market assimilation will be biased if there is non-random emigration of immigrants. We use longitudinal data on immigration to Sweden 1970-1990 to examine the extent and pattern of immigrant emigration and its consequences for measures of...
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explain the patterns of trade and migration as countries remove barriers to trade and to labor mobility. We parameterize the … liberalization which occured between 1989 and 2004, and then the gains and losses from migration which are expected to occur if legal … barriers to labor mobility are substantially reduced. The lower barriers to migration would result in significant migration of …
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