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Diaspora externalities
Rapoport, Hillel - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 10 (2019) 2/5, pp. 1-26
This review article surveys the recent economic literature on diaspora networks, globalization, and development. Diasporas are shown to contribute to the economic and cultural integration of source (i.e., developing) countries into the global economy. I first review the effect of diaspora...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012064002
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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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Minimum wages and the labor market effects of immigration
Edo, Anthony; Rapoport, Hillel - 2018
This paper exploits the non-linearity in the level of minimum wages across U.S. States created by the coexistence of federal and state regulations to investigate the labor market effects of immigration. We find that the impact of immigration on the wages and employment of native workers within a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011904885
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An introduction to the economics of immigration in OECD countries
Edo, Anthony; Ragot, Lionel; Rapoport, Hillel; … - 2020
practices regarding the selection and integration of new migrants affect labour market, fiscal and social/cultural outcomes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012295298
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Minimum wages and the labor market effects of immigration
Edo, Anthony; Rapoport, Hillel - 2017
We exploit the non-linearity in the level of minimum wages across US States created by the coexistence of federal and state regulations to investigate how minimum wages affect the labor market impact of immigration. We find that the effects of immigration on labor market outcomes of native...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011669546
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Diaspora externalities : a view from the South
Rapoport, Hillel - 2018
Migration decisions affect those left-behind in ways that are partly taken into account by market forces (e.g., wage effects on labour markets) and for the most part these can be seen as pure externalities. Diasporas are an example of such an externality. This paper reviews the recent economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011806518
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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
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Remittances and the brain drain revisited : the microdata show that more educated migrants remit more
Bollard, Albert; Morten, Melanie; Rapoport, Hillel - 2009
-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit less, leading to concerns that further increases in skilled migration … microdata then allow investigation as to why the more educated remit more. We find the higher income earned by migrants, rather …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003899015
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Remittances and the brain drain revisited : the microdata show that more educated migrants remit more
Bollard, Albert; McKenzie, David J.; Morten, Melanie; … - 2009
-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit less, leading to concerns that further increases in skilled migration … microdata then allow investigation as to why the more educated remit more. We find the higher income earned by migrants, rather …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003909197