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We introduce the idea that informational cascades can explain the observed regularity that emigrants from the same locations also tend to choose the same foreign locations. Thus informational cascades generate herd behavior. Herd behavior is compared with the network externalities explanation of...
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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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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011576995
We introduce the idea that informational cascades can explain the observed regularity that emigrants from the same locations also tend to choose the same foreign locations. Thus informational cascades generate herd behavior. Herd behavior is compared with the network externalities explanation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320613
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321235
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...
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Migration has a strong economic impact on the sending and host countries. Since individuals and groups do not benefit … equally from migration, interest groups emerge to protect and take care of their narrow self-interests and compete for rents … generated by migration. Narrow self-interests may be present not only for interest groups but also for ruling politicians and …
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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 …
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Culture is not new to the study of migration. It has lurked beneath the surface for some time, occasionally protruding … how culture manifests itself in the migration process for three groups of actors: the migrants, those remaining in the … migration as an economic phenomenon; but what about them matters? Properly, we should be looking at the determinants of identity …
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