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Informational cascades and decision to migrate
Epstein, Gil S. - 2002
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/10011406717
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339098
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Herd effects or migration networks? : the location choice of Mexican immigrants in the US
Bauer, Thomas K. (contributor); Epstein, Gil S. (contributor) - 2002
interaction of two alternative explanations of immigrant clustering: (1) network externalities and (2) herd behavior. We advance … Mexican Migration Project data. Our empirical results show that both network externalities and herds have significant effects … on the migrant?s decision of where to migrate. Moreover, the significance and size of the effects vary according to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009520494
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Enclaves, language and the location choice of migrants
Bauer, Thomas K.; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2002
Empirical studies in the migration literature have shown that migration enclaves (networks) negatively affect the … data on Mexican migration to the US, we show that migrants choose smaller networks as their English language proficiency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412790
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Enclaves, Language and the Location Choice of Migrants
Bauer, Thomas K.; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2021
Empirical studies in the migration literature have shown that migration enclaves (networks) negatively affect the … data on Mexican migration to the US, we show that migrants choose smaller networks as their English language proficiency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320439
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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. - 2021
interaction of two alternative explanations of immigrant clustering: (1) network externalities and (2) herd behavior. We advance … Mexican Migration Project data. Our empirical results show that both network externalities and herds have significant effects … on the migrant's decision of where to migrate. Moreover, the significance and size of the effects vary according to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320446
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Informational Cascades and Decision to Migrate
Epstein, Gil S. - 2021
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
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What are Migration Networks?
Bauer, Thomas K.; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2021
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
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011576995
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Migration and Culture
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2010
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008810057