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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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Ethnic networks are a way of overcoming informal barriers to trade such as information costs, risk, and uncertainty by building trust and by substituting for the difficulty of enforcing contracts internationally. We study networks which emerge from the interaction (i) between migrants and...
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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...
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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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This paper investigates how the job search outcomes of displaced migrants are affected by the labor market outcomes of past co-workers of the same nationality. For this exercise I use matched employer-employee micro data on the universe of private-sector employees in Italy between 1975 and 2001....
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in China, the paper calls for a housing strategy that accommodates the surging waves of rural to urban migration, one of … strategies in the face of distinctive urban opportunities and threats. In the context of migration, they form the underlying …
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We analyze the effects of increased immigration of foreign workers on the unionization rates of native workers in Austrian firms over the period 2002-2012. Our results suggest that lower union density of natives' in firms with more foreign workers is driven not by natives leaving unions, but by...
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We develop a model of the interdependencies between migration, remittances and inequality, and investigate how … migration and subsequent remittances affect inter-household inequality in the origin communities. An important feature of our … model is that we take into account the impact of migration on the local (rural) labor market. Migration is shown to decrease …
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