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Crossing the border: Self-selection, earnings and individual migration decisions
Bertoli, Simone; Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Jesús; … - 2010
Many empirical studies on the determinants of international migration flows rely exclusively on macro data, and do not account for migrants' self-selection. We analyze a very interesting episode in international migration for which we are able to gather individual-level data covering all...
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Fünf Jahre EU-Ostererweiterung: Schlechte Noten für deutsche Abschottungspolitik
Rinne, Ulf; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009
Arbeitnehmerfreizügigkeit innerhalb der Europäischen Union führt nicht zu Belastungen des Arbeitsmarktes und der Sozialversicherungen. Zu diesem Ergebnis kommt eine aktuelle Forschungsarbeit über die Entwicklungen und Folgen der Ost-West-Migration nach den jüngsten Erweiterungsrunden der...
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Occupation-specific south-north migration
Heuer, Nina - 2010
This paper presents occupation-specific data on south-north migration around the year 2000 using employment data for developing sending and OECD receiving countries from ILO and OECD. These data reveal that the incidence of south-north migration was highest among professionals, one of the two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301808
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Demographic and Economic Pressure on Emigration out of Africa
Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2001
migration. A century ago, more modest demographic forces in Europe were accompanied by strong catching-up economic growth in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265634
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Who leaves and who returns? Deciphering immigrant self-selection from a developing country
Akee, Randall K. Q. - 2007
Existing research examining the self-selection of immigrants suffers from a lack of information on the immigrants' labor force activities in the home country, quotas limiting who is allowed to enter the destination country, and non-economic factors such as internal civil strife in the home...
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Immigration policies and the ecuadorian exodus
Bertoli, Simone; Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Jesús; … - 2010
Ecuador experienced an unprecedented wave of international migration since the late 1990s, triggered by a severe economic and financial crisis. This paper gathers individual-level data from Ecuador and the two main destinations of Ecuadorian migrants: the US and Spain. First, we provide a...
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The effects of school quality in the origin on the payoff to schooling for immigrants
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2010
The payoff to schooling among the foreign born in the US is only around one-half of the payoff for the native born. This paper examines whether this differential is related to the quality of the schooling immigrants acquired abroad. The paper uses the Over-education/ Required...
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Preferences for Redistribution among Emigrantsfrom a Welfare State
Kauppinen, Ilpo; Poutvaara, Panu - 2012
This paper studies attitudes towards income redistribution in the country of originamong those who stay in a welfare state, and those who emigrate. We find a strikinggender difference among Danish emigrants. Majority of men opposes increasing incomeredistribution, while majority of women...
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The labor demand was downward sloping: Disentangling migrants' inflows and outflows, 1929 - 1957
Biavaschi, Costanza - 2012
This paper studies in- and out-migration from the U.S. during the first half of the twentieth century and assesses how these flows affected state-level labor markets. It shows that out-migration positively impacted the wages of remaining workers, while in-migration had a negative impact. Hence,...
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Migration as an adjustment mechanism in the crisis? A comparison of Europe and the United States
Jauer, Julia; Liebig, Thomas; Martin, John P.; Puhani, … - 2014
new light on this question by comparing pre- and post-crisis migration movements at the regional level in both Europe and … in Europe. Indeed, in contrast to the pre-crisis situation and the findings of previous empirical studies, there is … tentative evidence that the migration response to the crisis has been considerable in Europe, in contrast to the United States …
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