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Migration, political institutions, and social networks
Batista, Catia; Seither, Julia; Vicente, Pedro C. - 2018
What is the role of international migrants and, specifically, migrant networks in shaping political attitudes and … migrants and by other individuals in their networks. To test this hypothesis, we use detailed data on different migrant … of migrants an individual is in close contact with via regular chatting significantly increases political participation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011904883
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Migration networks as a response to financial constraints : onset and endogenous dynamics
Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin - 2012
-constrained individuals who seek to finance and expedite their migration. The cooperation agreement creates a network: "established" migrants … to study cooperation between more than two migrants, it emerges that there is a finite optimal size of the migration … network. Consequently, would-be migrants in the sending country will form a multitude of networks, rather than a single grand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009615281
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Migration networks as a response to financial constraints : onset and endogenous dynamics
Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin - 2012
-constrained individuals who seek to finance and expedite their migration. The cooperation agreement creates a network: "established" migrants … to study cooperation between more than two migrants, it emerges that there is a finite optimal size of the migration … network. Consequently, would-be migrants in the sending country will form a multitude of networks, rather than a single grand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009565687
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Learning from the origins
Yarkin, Alexander - 2023
How do political preferences and voting behaviors respond to information coming from abroad? Focusing on the international migration network, I document that opinion changes at the origins spill over to 1st- and 2nd-generation immigrants abroad. Local diasporas, social media, and family ties to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014336391
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International trade and migrant networks : is It really about qualifications?
Martín Montaner, Joan A.; Requena Silvente, Francisco; … - In: Estudios de economía 41 (2014) 2, pp. 251-260
Personal characteristics of migrants could help to strengthen the impact of migrant networks on bilateral trade. While … tasks carried out by migrants. Our empirical results confirm that the existence of a large number of foreign-born workers …
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Migrants' missing votes
Giesing, Yvonne; Schikora, Felicitas - 2020
Emigrants are less likely to participate in elections in their home country. They are also self-selected in terms of education, gender, age, and political preferences, changing the structure of the origin population. High emigration rates can therefore have a systematic influence on election...
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Revisiting the role of social networks as determinants of international-migration flows : a note
Fagiolo, Giorgio; Santoni, Gianluca - 2014
This note revisits the role of migrant social networks as determinants of bilateral-migration flows. We do so using a new database that covers about 190 world countries and features more accurate estimates of bilateral flows than those employed so far. Our battery of gravity-model exercises show...
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Network abroad and culture : global individual-level evidence
Turati, Riccardo - 2024
This paper analyzes whether natives with a network abroad have a distinctive cultural stance compared to similar individuals without such connections within the same region. Using individual-level data on connectedness from the Gallup World Poll across 2,256 within-country regions over 148...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015053879
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Network abroad and culture : global individual-level evidence
Turati, Riccardo - 2024
This paper analyzes whether natives with a network abroad have a distinctive cultural stance compared to similar individuals without such connections within the same region. Using individual-level data on connectedness from the Gallup World Poll across 2,256 within-country regions over 148...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015071997
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Diasporas
Beine, Michel; Docquier, Frédéric; Özden, Çağlar - 2009
to higher concentration of low-skill migrants. Interestingly, diasporas explain majority of the variability of migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003824981