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to higher concentration of low-skill migrants. Interestingly, diasporas explain majority of the variability of migration …
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We study the role of ethnic networks in migrants' job search and the quality of jobs they find in the first years of … result of restrictions in welfare eligibility since 1997, we study whether this increases the probability that new migrants … view. However, accounting for their higher employability, new migrants seem to fare better up to a year and half after …
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This paper analyzes the role of ethnic communities in shaping the recent immigration boom to Spain. We find that ethnic communities exerted a strong positive effect on the scale and a strong negative effect on the skill structure of this immigration. Unlike previous studies, we explicitly...
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by the fact that skilled migrants remit more than unskilled ones. This paper contributes to the much debated and so far … unresolved related issue of whether remittances actually increase with migrants' level of education. The determinants of … remittances considered include migration levels and rates; migrants' education level; and source countries' income, financial …
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This paper examines the residential mobility behaviour of migrants and natives in the Netherlands using a rich … to be about 18 percentage points lower for non-western migrants than for natives. About 65 percent of the differential is …. No indication is found of the spatial assimilation of second-generation non-western migrants. On the other hand, the …
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Migration networks are usually captured by the number of people from the migrant?s country in the host region. Using …-village-specific variables on migrants? location choice. …
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This paper examines the role of ethnic networks in disability program take-up among working-age immigrants in the United States. We find that even when controlling for country of origin and area of residence fixed effects, immigrants residing amidst a large number of co-ethnics are more likely...
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The study on "Managing International Labor Migration in ASEAN: Thailand" aimed to study policies and institution arrangement for managing international migration as part of regional cooperation initiatives and bilateral agreements. The study emphasized on finding out why the current management...
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The study on "Managing International Labor Migration in ASEAN: Thailand" aimed to study policies and institution arrangement for managing international migration as part of regional cooperation initiatives and bilateral agreements. The study emphasized on finding out why the current management...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421228
could be separated: stayers, who did not have migration plans and did not move; expected migrants, who previously reported … intention to move and realized it; dreamers, who planned migration but did not realize it; and unexpected migrants, who … initially had no migration plans but moved nevertheless. Our results indicate negative selection of migrants in the dimensions …
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