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International migration, transfers of norms and home country fertility
Beine, Michel (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper examines the relationship between international migration and source country fertility. The impact of … international migration on source country fertility may have a number of causes, including a transfer of destination countries …' fertility norms and an incentive to acquire more education. We provide a rigorous test of the diffusion of fertility norms using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793572
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International migration, transfers of norms and home country fertility
Beine, Michel; Docquier, Frédéric; Schiff, Maurice W. - 2008
This paper examines the relationship between international migration and source country fertility. The impact of … international migration on source country fertility may have a number of causes, including a transfer of destination countries …’ fertility norms and an incentive to acquire more education. We provide a rigorous test of the diffusion of fertility norms using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003806017
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International Migration, Transfers of Norms and Home Country Fertility
Beine, Michel A. R. - 2009
This paper examines the relationship between international migration and source country fertility. The impact of … international migration on source country fertility may have a number of causes, including a transfer of destination countries …' fertility norms and an incentive to acquire more education. We provide a rigorous test of the diffusion of fertility norms using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012765320
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International Migration, Transfers of Norms and Home Country Fertility
Beine, Michel A. R.; Docquier, Frédéric; Schiff, Maurice - 2021
This paper examines the relationship between international migration and source country fertility. The impact of … international migration on source country fertility may have a number of causes, including a transfer of destination countries …' fertility norms and an incentive to acquire more education. We provide a rigorous test of the diffusion of fertility norms using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316417
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The dynamic implications of liberalizing global migration
Delogu, Marco; Docquier, Frédéric; Machado, Joël - 2014
distribution of income. We develop and parametrize a dynamic model of the world economy with endogenous migration, fertility and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010235847
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A global assessment of human capital mobility : the role of non-OECD destinations
Artuc, Erhan; Docquier, Frédéric; Özden, Çağlar; … - 2014
Discussions of high-skilled mobility typically evoke migration patterns from poorer to wealthier countries, which ignore movements to and between developing countries. This paper presents, for the first time, a global overview of human capital mobility through bilateral migration stocks by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010463429
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Weather shocks and migration intentions in Western Africa : insights from a multilevel analysis
Bertoli, Simone; Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel; … - 2020
We use a multilevel approach to characterize the relationship between weather shocks and (internal and international) migration intentions. We combine individual survey data on migration intentions with measures of localized weather shocks for Western African countries over 2008-2016. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012157241
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Do emigrants self-select along cultural traits? : evidence from the MENA Countries
Docquier, Frédéric; Tansel, Aysıt; Turati, Riccardo - 2017
This paper empirically investigates whether emigrants from MENA countries self-select on cultural traits such as religiosity and gender-egalitarian attitudes. To do so, we use Gallup World Poll data on individual opinions and beliefs, migration aspirations, short-run migration plans, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011761616
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Do emigrants self-select along cultural traits? : evidence from the MENA countries
Docquier, Frédéric; Tansel, Aysıt; Turati, Riccardo - 2017
This paper empirically investigates whether emigrants from MENA countries self-select on cultural traits such as religiosity and gender-egalitarian attitudes. To do so, we use Gallup World Poll data on individual opinions and beliefs, migration aspirations, short-run migration plans, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011764653
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New York, Abu Dhabi, London or Stay at Home? : using a cross-nested logit model to identify complex substitution patterns in migration
Beine, Michel; Bierlaire, Michel; Docquier, Frédéric - 2021
The question of how people revise their decisions about whether to emigrate, and where to, when facing changes in the global environment is of critical importance in migration literature. We propose a cross-nested logit (CNL) approach to generalize the way deviations from the IIA (independence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012431197