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Who is in favor of immigration
Epstein, Gil S.; Katav-Herz, Shirit - 2019
Population ageing affects most countries, especially developed ones. The elderly have increased in number as a result of increased longevity and a parallel decline in fertility. This phenomenon is placing an increasing burden on the young to finance intergenerational transfers to the old, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012159286
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Who is in favor of immigration
Epstein, Gil S.; Katav-Herz, Shirit - 2019
Population ageing affects most countries, especially developed ones. The elderly have increased in number as a result of increased longevity and a parallel decline in fertility. This phenomenon is placing an increasing burden on the young to finance intergenerational transfers to the old, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012019277
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Who is in favor of immigration
Epstein, Gil S.; Katav-Herz, Shirit - 2019
Population ageing affects most countries, especially developed ones. The elderly have increased in number as a result of increased longevity and a parallel decline in fertility. This phenomenon is placing an increasing burden on the young to finance intergenerational transfers to the old, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012021582
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The formation of immigrant networks in the short and the long run
Epstein, Gil S.; Heizler, Odelia - In: Economies : open access journal 4 (2016) 3, pp. 1-16
In this paper, we present a formal framework of possible network formations among immigrants. After arriving in the new country, one of the new immigrant’s important decisions is with whom to maintain a link in the foreign country. We find that the behavior of the first two immigrants affects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011542617
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Schooling forsaken : education and migration
Abdulloev, Ilhom; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2019
takes as its starting point the migration of educated/professional labor from poor origin countries to richer host countries …. While high-skilled migration is worrisome, many international migrants accept low-skilled positions in host countries. Their … time-inconsistencies between short-run economic gains from migration and negative long-term effects from missing human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011972786
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Migration and forsaken schooling in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan
Abdulloev, Ilhom; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 11 (2020) 1/4, pp. 1-27
Large international earnings differentials negatively impact human capital investments in migrant-origin countries. We find that three Central Asian migrant-sending countries-the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Tajikistan, and the Republic of Uzbekistan-are facing a for-saken schooling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012303135
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Schooling forsaken : education and migration
Abdulloev, Ilhom; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2020
takes as its starting point the migration of educated/professional labor from poor origin countries to richer host countries …. While high-skilled emigration is troubling, even more so is that many international migrants accept low-skilled positions in …-skilled jobs. This suggests possible time-inconsistencies between short-run economic gains from migration and negative long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012265254
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Job status, international migration and educational choice
Abdulloev, Ilhom; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2020
We consider how the possibility of international migration affects an individual’s educational choices in their home … order to increase their chances of obtaining a job in the host country after migration. Thus, all home country students may …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012311042
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Migration and university education : an empirical (macro) link
Akkoyunlu, Şule; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2022
and migration. We examine the specific link between the acquisition of high levels of human capital in the form of … university education in Turkey and migration to Germany. We implement bounds testing procedures to ascertain the long …-run relationships with the variables of interest in a migration model. Although the bounds testing procedure has advantages compared to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013254234
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Migration and university education : an empirical (macro) link
Akkoyunlu, Şule; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2022
and migration. We examine the specific link between the acquisition of high levels of human capital in the form of … university education in Turkey and migration to Germany. We implement bounds testing procedures to ascertain the long …-run relationships with the variables of interest in a migration model. Although the bounds testing procedure has advantages compared to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013256990