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We examine a little-known restriction on high-skill immigration to the United States, the Exchange Visitor Skills List … outdated because it fails to reflect modern economic research on the complex effects of skilled migration on overseas …
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. However, migration also changes relative wages, alters the distribution of skills and affects equality in the receiving … society. The paper suggests that skilled immigration promotes economic equality in advanced economies under standard …
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This paper analyzes the impact of migration on destination-country corruption levels. Capitalizing on a comprehensive … dataset consisting of annual immigration stocks of OECD countries from 207 countries of origin for the period 1984 - 2008, we … consistently find that while general migration has an insignificant effect on the destination country's corruption level …
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find that while general migration has an insignificant effect on the destination country's corruption level, immigration …This paper analyzes the impact of migration on destination-country corruption levels. Capitalizing on a comprehensive … dataset consisting of annual immigration stocks of OECD countries from 207 countries of origin for the period 1984 - 2008, we …
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Many governments seek to reduce emigration from low-income countries by encouraging economic development there. A large literature, however, observes that average emigration rates are higher in countries with sustained increases in GDP per capita than in either chronically poor countries or...
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Theory suggests that groups historically subject to discrimination, such as Jews, could exhibit traditionally high investment in education because discrimination spurred exit facilitated by human capital. Theory moreover suggests that if exit is uncertain, it could induce investment in skill...
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on immigration. My aim is to identify facts about international migration relevant to those concerned about why labor …In this chapter, I discuss the recent academic research on international migration, focusing on the causes and …
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internal and international out-migration of the Polish population. I provide supportive evidence that the decrease in out-migration …Russia's attacks against Ukraine have triggered massive and unexpected migration movements. In this paper, I examine … the impact of the inflow of Ukrainians that resulted from Russia's aggression in 2014 on local migration patterns in …
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preferences over immigration. Using data from the European Social Survey from 2014 and 2015, our results document that individual … norms and values strongly shape preferences over immigration, even when controlling for expected costs and benefits from … immigration. In particular, we find that altruistic attitudes significantly raise the support for all types of immigration while …
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between migration and economic development and inequality. The literature review suggests that there are several channels … through which migration affects economic inequality between countries in one or the other direction. The net effects are an …; sources, types and selectivity of migration, as well as responses of the receiving societies as well as migrants themselves …
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