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What are Migration Networks?
Bauer, Thomas K.; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 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-village-specific variables on migrants? location choice.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272878
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Herd Effects or Migration Networks? The Location Choice of Mexican Immigrants in the U.S.
Bauer, Thomas K.; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2002
This paper addresses the question: Why and where do immigrants cluster? We examine the relative importance and interaction of two alternative explanations of immigrant clustering: (1) network externalities and (2) herd behavior. We advance the theory by presenting a framework encompassing both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272879
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Herd effects or migration networks? The location choice of Mexican immigrants in the US
Bauer, Thomas; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2002
This paper addresses the question: Why and where do immigrants cluster? We examine the relative importance and interaction of two alternative explanations of immigrant clustering: (1) network externalities and (2) herd behavior. We advance the theory by presenting a framework encompassing both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318336
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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
This paper addresses the question: Why and where do immigrants cluster? We examine the relative importance and interaction of two alternative explanations of immigrant clustering: (1) network externalities and (2) herd behavior. We advance the theory by presenting a framework encompassing both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005750184
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What are migration networks?
Bauer, Thomas K.; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 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-village-specific variables on migrants' location choice.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011576995
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What are migration networks?
Bauer, Thomas K.; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 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-village-specific variables on migrants' location choice.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339098
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Age at immigration and high school dropouts
Cohen-Goldner, Sarit; Epstein, Gil S. - 2014
We focus on high school dropout rate among male and female immigrant children. We consider the relationship between the dropout rate and age of arrival of the immigrants. Using repeated cross sectional data from the Israeli Labor Force Surveys of 1996-2011 we show that the share of high school...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010390776
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Age at immigration and high school dropouts
Cohen-Goldner, Sarit; Epstein, Gil S. - 2014
We focus on high school dropout rate among male and female immigrant children. We consider the relationship between the dropout rate and age of arrival of the immigrants. Using repeated cross sectional data from the Israeli Labor Force Surveys of 1996-2011 we show that the share of high school...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010393844
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Age at immigration and high school dropouts
Cohen-Goldner, Sarit; Epstein, Gil S. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-20
We focus on high school dropout rates among male and female immigrant children. We consider the relationship between the dropout rate and age at arrival of the immigrants. Using repeated cross sectional data from the Israeli Labor Force Surveys of 1996 - 2011 we show that the share of high...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010472850
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Who is in favor of immigration
Epstein, Gil S.; Katav-Herz, Shirit - 2019
the long-run viability of society as a whole. One possible solution is to permit more immigration, which will both … increase the labor force and broaden the tax base. Increasing immigration has a variety of effects on the local population … attractiveness of immigration as a solution to population ageing. This paper examines immigration as a solution to the problem of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012019277