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The Influence of Others on Migration Plans

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

roles “other people” play in influencing an individual’s potential migration decision. In analyzing the influence of others … on migration decisions, we rely on the concepts of migration networks and herd effects. …

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Ethnic Networks and International Trade

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

international trade. Ethnic networks are a way of overcoming informal barriers (information costs, risk and uncertainty) to trade by … struggle of the local population to prevent such assimilation. These activities affect trade possibilities. Moreover, we show … that it may well be in the interest of migrants who specialize in trade to, at some point in time, turn from investing in …

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Economic Strain, Ethnic Concentration and Attitudes Towards Foreigners in the European Union

Gang, Ira N.; Rivera-Batiz, Francisco L.; Yun, Myeong-Su - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

This paper provides a statistical analysis of the determinants of attitudes towards foreigners displayed by Europeans sampled in Eurobarometer surveys in 1988 and 1997. Europeans who compete with immigrants in the labor market have more negative attitudes towards foreigners. In addition, an...

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Government and Cities: Contests and the Decentralization of Decision Making

Gang, Ira N.; Epstein, Gil S. - Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick - 2002

Governments do not have perfect information regarding the priorities and the needs of different groups in the economy. This lack of knowledge opens the door for different groups to lobby the government in order to receive the government’s support. We set up a model of hierarchical contests and...

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Returns to Returning

Gang, Ira N.; Co, Catherine Y.; Yun, Myeong-Su - Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick - 1999

We examine the labor market performance of return migrants using the Hungarian Household Panel Survey. Two distinct selection issues are considered in the estimation of the earnings equation; we implement a natural method using MLE. The result that there is a "premium" to work experience abroad...

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Returns to Returning: Who Went Abroad and What Does it Matter?

Co, Catherine Y.; Yun, Myeong-Su; Gang, Ira N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1998

We examine the labor market performance of return migrants using the Hungarian Household Panel Survey. Two distinct selection issues are considered in the estimation of the earnings equation. The result that there is a Apremium@ to work experience abroad for women is robust across models we...

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Returns to returning

Co, Catherine Y.; Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su - In: Journal of Population Economics 13 (2000) 1, pp. 57-79

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Herd Effects or Migration Networks? The Location Choice of Mexican Immigrants in the U.S.

Gang, Ira N.; Bauer, Thomas; Epstein, Gil S. - Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick - 2002

Mexican Migration Project data. Our empirical results show that both network externalities and herds have significant effects …

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What are Migration Networks?

Bauer, Thomas; Epstein, Gil; Gang, Ira N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

Migration networks are usually captured by the number of people from the migrant’s country in the host region. Using … Mexican migration data, we analyze the effects of the usual network variable and two additional origin …

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Measuring Income Assimilation of Migrants to Germany

Gang, Ira N.; Landon-Lane, John; Yun, Myeong-Su - In: Schmollers Jahrbuch : Journal of Applied Social Science … 129 (2009) 2, pp. 333-342

We measure the income assimilation of migrants to Germany employing a new measure of assimilation that uses the whole income distribution rather than selected moments. To do this we implement a discrete-state Markov chain to model the dynamics of the cross-sectional income distribution of...

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