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Do Migrants Send Remittances as a Way of Self-Insurance? Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey
Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Do migrants send remittances as a way of obtaining insurance? While this motive is theoretically suggested in the literature, the question of identifying this relationship empirically has only begun to be explored. Using a unique representative survey of 1500 immigrants in the Greater Dublin...
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The Mobility Challenge for Growth and Integration in Europe
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
value of labor mobility for economic prosperity and its determinants. Labor migration and not welfare migration dominates … the future a much higher level of circular and permanent migration. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884383
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Migration, Risk Attitudes, and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey
Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Do more risk loving migrants opt for self-employment? This is a question especially relevant for policymakers designing selective immigration policies in countries of destination. In order to provide a rigorous answer to it, we use a novel vignette-adjusted measure of risk preferences in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959623
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Labor Mobility and the Integration of European Labor Markets
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
to mobility is in promoting the integration of international workers in the European migration process, which can be … strengthened through circular migration. The European "blue card" initiative and the opening of labor markets to foreign graduates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005018681
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The Evaluation of Immigration Policies
Rinne, Ulf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This chapter summarizes the literature on the evaluation of immigration policies. It brings together two strands of the literature dealing with the evaluation of labor market programs and with the economic integration of immigrants. Next to immigrant selection and settlement policies, there are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652097
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Migration, Risk Attitudes, and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey
Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2013
Do more risk loving migrants opt for self-employment? This is a question especially relevant for policy makers designing selective immigration policies in countries of destination. In order to provide a rigorous answer to it, we use a novel vignette-adjusted measure of risk preferences in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010839545
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Migration in an enlarged EU: A challenging solution?
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Directorate-General Economic and Financial Affairs, … - 2009
This paper analyses the impact of the enlargement-related migration on labour markets, welfare systems, and growth and …. This essay provides a broad and in-depth account of the effects of the post-enlargement migration flows on the receiving as … analysis of the available literature and empirical evidence shows that (i) EU enlargement had a significant impact on migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008635817
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Scale, Diversity and Determinants of Labour Migration in Europe
Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
While global migration is increasing, internal EU migration flows have remained low. This paper contributes to a better … understanding of the determinants and scale of European migration. It surveys previous historical experiences and empirical findings … including the recent Eastern enlargements. The determinants of migration before and after the 2004 enlargement and in the EU15 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666423
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Migration, the Quality of the Labour Force and Economic Inequality
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Mobility of workers involves flows of labour, human capital and other production factors and thus contributes to a more efficient allocation of resources. Besides these effects on allocative efficiency, migrant flows affect relative wages and also change the international and national...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762078
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Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance, and Self-employment Proclivity: A Bi-national Study of Immigrants
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labor force, and the potential policy responses. This paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762301