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International migration, income taxes and transfers : a welfare analysis

Michael, Michael S. - 2002

An important issue in public policy debates is the effect of international migration on welfare in source and host countries. We address this issue by constructing a general equilibrium model of a two-class source or host country. Each country produces many traded and non-traded goods, uses...

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International migration : driver of political and social change?

Tuccio, Michele; Wahba, Jackline; Hamdouch, Bachir - 2016

This paper focuses on the impact of international migration on the transfer of political and social norms. Exploiting recent and unique data on Morocco, it explores whether households with return and current migrants bear different political preferences and behaviours than non-migrant families....

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Estimating earnings assimilation of immigrants to Germany : evidence from a double cohort model

Okoampah, Sarah - 2016

a moderate earnings assimilation process for some immigrant groups. However, due to variations in the economic … this background, this paper employs a double cohort model to revisit the existing evidence on earnings assimilation … processes of immigrants to Germany. In line with this literature, no evidence for a robust assimilation process for immigrants …

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Two-way migration between similiar countries

Kreickemeier, Udo; Wrona, Jens - 2015

We develop a model to explain two-way migration of high-skilled individuals between countries that are similar in their economic characteristics. High-skilled migration results from the combination of workers whose abilities are private knowledge, and a production technology that gives...

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Family migration and relative earnings potentials

Foged, Mette - 2016

A unitarian model of family migration in which families may discount wives' private gains is used to derive testable predictions regarding the type of couples that select into migrating. The empirical tests show that gender neutral family migration cannot be rejected against the alternative of...

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The elasticity of the migrant labor supply : evidence from temporary Filipino migrants

Bertoli, Simone; Moraga, Jesús Fernández-Huertas; … - 2016

The effect of immigration on host and origin countries is mediated by the way migrants take their labor supply decisions. We propose a simple way of integrating the traditional random utility maximization model used to analyze location decisions with a classical labor demand function at...

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Stymied ambition : does a lack of economic freedom lead to migration?

Meierrieks, Daniel; Renner, Laura - 2016

This contribution investigates the relationship between economic freedom and international migration. We argue that higher levels of economic freedom in the source countries of migration may discourage migration by generating more economic security, providing more economic opportunities and...

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Determinants of international migration : empirical evidence for migration from developing countries to Germany

Rotte, Ralph; Vogler, Michael - 1998

By means of a descriptive survey of theoretical literature the paper first works out the potential determinants that may drive international migration from developing to developed countries. Furthermore, we look on the relationship between trade, development and migration. Empirical studies...

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The effects of development on migration : theoretical issues and new empirical evidence

Rotte, Ralph; Vogler, Michael - 1999

Empirical research on the determinants of international migration including the LDCs has so far neglected one important issue: the complex relationship of development and migration. Since the beginning of the 1990s several arguments have been discussed which hint at the possibility that progress...

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Genetic distance and international migrant selection

Krieger, Tim; Renner, Laura; Ruhose, Jens - 2015 - This version: July 2015

This paper looks at the effect of the relatedness of two countries, measured by their genetic distance, on educational migrant selection. We analyze bilateral country-level education-specific migration stocks from 85 sending countries to the 15 main destination countries in 2000 and show that...

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