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Economic liberalisation and the mobility of minority groups: Evidence from Māori in New Zealand
Sin, Isabelle; Stillman, Steven - In: IZA Journal of Migration 5 (2016) 4, pp. 1-18
Between 1984 and 1993, New Zealand undertook comprehensive market-oriented economic reforms. In this paper, we use census data to examine how the internal mobility of M¯aori compares to that of Europeans in New Zealand in the period after these reforms. It is often suggested that M¯aori are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011586055
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All That Glitters Is Not Gold: Wages and Education for US Immigrants
Bertoli, Simone; Stillman, Steven - 2019
Many destination countries consider implementing points-based migration systems as a way to improve migrants' quality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005869
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Natural experiment evidence on the effect of migration on blood pressure and hypertension
Gibson, John; Stillman, Steven; McKenzie, David; … - 2010
to where wages are higher. But the effect of this migration on health is less clear and existing evidence is ambiguous … unsuccessful applicants to a migration lottery to experimentally estimate the impact of migration on measured blood pressure and … to migration. We use various econometric estimators to form bounds on the treatment effects since there appears to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274547
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A land of milk and honey with streets paved with gold: Do emigrants have over-optimistic expectations about incomes abroad?
McKenzie, David; Gibson, John; Stillman, Steven - 2007
migration pressure, and in disappointment amongst those who do migrate. Yet there is almost no statistical evidence on how … migration destination. Our procedure enables us to obtain moments and quantiles of the subjective distribution of expected …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532721
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Natural Experiment Evidence on the Effect of Migration on Blood Pressure and Hypertension
Gibson, John; Stillman, Steven; McKenzie, David; … - 2010
to where wages are higher. But the effect of this migration on health is less clear and existing evidence is ambiguous … unsuccessful applicants to a migration lottery to experimentally estimate the impact of migration on measured blood pressure and … to migration. We use various econometric estimators to form bounds on the treatment effects since there appears to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532862
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The Long-Term Impact of International Migration on Economic Decision-Making: Evidence from a Migration Lottery and Lab-in-the-Field Experiments
Gibson, John; McKenzie, David; Rohorua, Halahingano; … - 2016
We study how migration from a poor to a rich country affects key economic beliefs, preference parameters, and … transnational household decision-making efficiency. Our setting is the migration of Tongans to New Zealand through a migration … and the efficiency of intra-family decision-making. Migration provides a large and permanent positive shock to income, a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533117
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Economic Liberalisation and the Mobility of Minority Groups: Evidence from Māori in New Zealand
Sin, Isabelle; Stillman, Steven - 2015
Between 1984 and 2003, New Zealand undertook comprehensive market-oriented economic reforms. In this paper, we use Census data to examine how the internal mobility of Māori compares to that of Europeans in New Zealand in the period after these reforms. It is often suggested that Māori are less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010513129
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The Long-Term Impact of International Migration on Economic Decision-Making: Evidence from a Migration Lottery and Lab-in-the-Field Experiments
Gibson, John; McKenzie, David; Rohorua, Halahingano; … - 2016
We study how migration from a poor to a rich country affects key economic beliefs, preference parameters, and … transnational household decision-making efficiency. Our setting is the migration of Tongans to New Zealand through a migration … and the efficiency of intra-family decision-making. Migration provides a large and permanent positive shock to income, a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011525041
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A land of milk and honey with streets paved with gold : do emigrants have over-optimistic expectations about incomes abroad?
McKenzie, David J.; Gibson, John K.; Stillman, Steven - In: Journal of development economics 102 (2013), pp. 116-127
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009764531
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The long-term impact of international migration on economic decision-making : evidence from a migration lottery and lab-in-the-field experiments
Gibson, John K.; McKenzie, David J.; Rohorua, Halahingano; … - 2016
We study how migration from a poor to a rich country affects key economic beliefs, preference parameters, and … transnational household decision-making efficiency. Our setting is the migration of Tongans to New Zealand through a migration … and the efficiency of intra-family decision-making. Migration provides a large and permanent positive shock to income, a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011518134