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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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International Trade and Labor Market Integration of Immigrants
Lodefalk, Magnus; Sjöholm, Fredrik; Tang, Aili - 2020
We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208875
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International Trade and Labor Market - Integration of Immigrants
Lodefalk, Magnus; Sjöholm, Fredrik; Tang, Aili - 2020
We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012654461
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Informal incentives, labor supply, and the effect of immigration on wages
Fahn, Matthias; Murooka, Takeshi - 2021
This paper theoretically investigates how an increase in the supply of homogenous workers can raise wages, generating new insights on potential drivers for the observed non-negative wage effects of immigration. We develop a model of a labor market with frictions in which firms can motivate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012662721
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The labor market integration of Syrian refugees in Turkey
Demirci, Murat; Kirdar, Murat G. - 2021
Turkey hosts the largest population of refugees globally; however, we know little about their labor market outcomes at the national level. We use the 2018 round of the Turkey Demographic and Health Survey, which includes a representative sample of Syrian refugees in Turkey for the first time, to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013373853
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Keeping refugee children in school and out of work: Evidence from the world's largest humanitarian cash transfer program
Aygün, Aysun Hızıroğlu; Kirdar, Murat G.; Koyuncu, Murat - 2021
This paper investigates whether unconditional cash transfers can keep refugee children in school and out of work. We raise this question in the unique context of Turkey, which hosts the world's largest refugee population (including 3.6 million Syrians). Refugees in Turkey are supported by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012628458