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On the taxing of migrants' earnings while retaining a migrant workforce

Stark, Oded; Budzinski, Wiktor - 2018

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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Global integration and world migration

Stark, Oded - 2017

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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The prospect of migration, sticky wages, and "educated unemployment"

Stark, Oded; Fan, Chengze Simon - 2011

, under certain conditions, elect to restrict the extent of the migration of educated individuals. …

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Why would some migrants choose to engage in degrading work?

Stark, Oded; Fan, Chengze Simon - 2011

This paper develops a model of voluntary migration into degrading work. The essence of the model is a tension between …

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Integration as a catalyst for assimilation

Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin - 2013

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 countryś society, and economic assimilation as acquisition of human capital that is specific to the host...

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Migration and dynamics : how a leakage of human capital lubricates the engine of economic growth

Sorger, Gerhard; Stark, Oded; Wang, Yong - 2013

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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International migration, human capital formation, and saving

Stark, Oded; Agnieszka Dorn - 2013

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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Do family ties with those left behind intensify or weaken migrants’ assimilation?

Stark, Oded; Dorn, Agnieszka - 2012

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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On the economics of others

Stark, Oded - 2014

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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Migration networks as a response to financial constraints : onset and endogenous dynamics

Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin - 2012

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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