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Birthplace diversity and economic growth : evidence from the US states in the post-World War II period
Docquier, Frédéric; Turati, Riccardo; Valette, Jérôme; … - 2018
This paper empirically revisits the impact of birthplace diversity on economic growth. We use panel data on US states over the 1960-2010 period. This rich data set allows us to better deal with endogeneity issues and to conduct a large set of robustness checks. Our results suggest that diversity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011906484
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Ethnic Discrimination and the Migration of Skilled Labor
Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel - 2001
We consider a small open developing economy, whose population is bifurcated into a majority and a minority group, the latter lacking political influence. Agents are heterogeneous in skills, and decide whether to invest in education when young and whether to migrate in their adulthood. Assuming a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013204713
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Ethnic Discrimination and the Migration of Skilled Labor
Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel - Department of Economics, Bar Ilan University - 2001
We consider a small open developing economy, whose population is bifurcated into a majority and a minority group, the latter lacking political influence. Agents are heterogeneous in skills, and decide whether to invest in education when young and whether to migrate in their adulthood. Assuming a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008553041
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Are Migrant Minorities Strategically Self-Selected?
Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel - 2010
In this paper we focus on the possibility of migrants' self-selection through strategic remittances. We argue that … migrants of a specific community might be pooled with migrants from other ethnic minorities on the labor market of the foreign …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014204042
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The Changing Structure of Immigration to the OECD : What Welfare Effects on Member Countries?
Burzynski, Michal - 2018
We investigate the welfare implications of two pre-crisis immigration waves (1991– 2000 and 2001–2010) and of the post-crisis wave (2011–2015) for OECD native citizens. To do so, we develop a general equilibrium model that accounts for the main channels of transmission of immigration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915703
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The Changing Structure of Immigration to the OECD : What Welfare Effects on Member Countries?
Burzynski, Michal - 2018
We investigate the welfare implications of two pre-crisis immigration waves (1991–2000 and 2001–2010) and of the post-crisis wave (2011–2015) for OECD native citizens. To do so, we develop a general equilibrium model that accounts for the main channels of transmission of immigration shocks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012916954
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Chapter 17 The Economics of Migrants' Remittances
Rapoport, Hillel; Docquier, Frédéric - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 1135-1198). 2006
This chapter reviews the recent theoretical and empirical economic literature on migrants' remittances. It is divided … discriminative tests in the absence of sufficiently detailed data on migrants and receiving households' characteristics and on the … find evidence of moral hazard on the recipients' side and of the use of inheritance prospects to monitor the migrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023661
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Remittances, Migrants' Education and Immigration Policy : Theory and Evidence from Bilateral Data
Docquier, Frédéric - 2011
We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using … original bilateral remittance data. At a theoretical level we lay out a model of remittances interacting migrants' human … between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118275
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Remittances, migrants' education and immigration policy : theory and evidence from bilateral data
Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel; Salomone, Sara - 2011
We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using … original bilateral remittance data. At a theoretical level we lay out a model of remittances interacting migrants' human … between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009349530
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Remittances, migrants' education and immigration policy : theory and evidence from bilateral data
Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel; Salomone, Sara - 2011
We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using … original bilateral remittance data. At a theoretical level we lay out a model of remittances interacting migrants' human … between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009519903