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A Life-Cycle Model of Outmigration and Economic Assimilation of Immigrants in Germany
Bellemare, Charles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
This paper estimates a structural dynamic life-cycle model of outmigration where, in each period, immigrants choose … features of existing life-cycle theories of outmigration but distinguishes itself by introducing uncertainty in about future … overcome the problem of not directly observing outmigration movements by using panel attrition as a proxy variable and use a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822876
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A Life-Cycle Model of Outmigration and Economic Assimilation of Immigrants in Germany
Bellemare, Charles - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2004
This paper estimates a structural dynamic model of outmigration which incorporate several features of existing … outmigration theories but distinguishes itself by introducing uncertainty about future earnings and preferences which allows … outmigration does not depend exclusively on earnings differentials. Immigrants are found to be forward looking decision makers, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005696305
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Immigration Following EU Eastern Enlargement
Sinn, Hans-Werner; Werding, Martin - In: CESifo Forum 2 (2001) 2, pp. 40-47
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005010162
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A Dynamic Analysis for inter-regional migratory movements in Spain (1986-2001) based on the MCC Method
HIERRO, MARIA; Guijarro Garvi, Guijarro Garvi , Marta - In: INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH (2005) 6, pp. 125-140
Markov chains are a powerful statistical tool to study temporal and spatial dynamic of mobility. However, its original formulation is far from reality due to its fundamental hypothesis. This paper is aimed to present some methods that relax one of these hypotheses: temporal homogeneity. We will...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010992191
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Sequential Migration, and the German Reunification
Birk, Angela - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2004
The paper develops a sequential migration model and derives a worker's optimal policies for migration and employment. With the worker's simulated reservation wage functions for employment and migration, a stationary equilibrium is defined. In that equilibrium, stationary distributions of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957444
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On the Dynamics of Interstate Migration: Migration Costs and Self-Selection
Bayer, Christian; Juessen, Falko - Institut für Wirtschafts- und Sozialstatistik, … - 2006
This paper develops a tractable dynamic microeconomic model of migration decisions that is aggregated to describe the behavior of interregional migration. Our structural approach allows us to deal with dynamic self-selection problems that arise from the endogeneity of location choice and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009219869
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Kinetics of jobs in multi-link cities with migration-driven aggregation process
Sun, Ruoyan - In: Economic Modelling 30 (2013) C, pp. 36-41
Immigration has long been a hotly debated issue. The core of this debate is immigrants' impact on local job markets. Some people insist that instead of creating more jobs, immigrants actually take away more jobs thus decrease the living standard of natives. Others argue that the presence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010608248
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On the Dynamics of Interstate Migration: Migration Costs and Self-Selection
Bayer, Christian; Juessen, Falko - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper develops a tractable dynamic microeconomic model of migration decisions that is aggregated to describe the behavior of interregional migration. Our structural approach allows us to deal with dynamic self-selection problems that arise from the endogeneity of location choice and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703095
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A generalized options approach to aggregate migration with an application to US federal states
Bayer, Christian; Juessen, Falko - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2006
This paper develops a tractable dynamic microeconomic model of migration decisions that is aggregated to describe the behavior of interregional migration. Our structural approach allows to deal with dynamic self-selection problems that arises from the endogeneity of location choice and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005069203
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Can Sectoral Shifts Generate Persistent Unemployment in Real Business Cycle Models?
Mikhail, Ossama; Eberwein, Curtis J.; Handa, Jagdish - EconWPA - 2003
This paper extends the standard Real Business Cycle model to incorporate sectoral shifts in unemployment. Using relative sectoral technology and sectoral tastes shocks, combined with labor adjustment costs across sectors, we assess the possibility of generating persistent aggregate unemployment....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412613