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A field study of Chinese migrant workers' attitudes toward risks, strategic uncertainty, and competitiveness
Hao, Li; Houser, Daniel; Mao, Lei; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2014
Using a field experiment in China, we study whether migration status is correlated with attitudes toward risk …. Our results suggest that migration may be driven more by a stronger belief in one's ability to succeed in an uncertain and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010360288
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Migration experience, aspirations and the brain drain theory and empirical evidence
Böhme, Marcus H.; Glaser, Toni - 2014
in a migration experience, which increases the migrant's aspirations. This will induce her to invest more in the … given migration rate. We show that the optimal migration rate that maximizes the post-migration skill-rate of the population … is higher if we allow for the aspirations effect of migration. We use panel data from Indonesia to demonstrate that a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010402250
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The emigration life cycle: how development shapes emigration from poor countries
Clemens, Michael A. - 2020
channels for this relationship highlight the joint importance of demographic transition, education investment, and structural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269072
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A Field Study of Chinese Migrant Workers' Attitudes Toward Risks, Strategic Uncertainty, and Competitiveness
Hao, Li - 2014
Using a field experiment in China, we study whether migration status is correlated with attitudes toward risk …. Our results suggest that migration may be driven more by a stronger belief in one's ability to succeed in an uncertain and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013052558
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A Field Study of Chinese Migrant Workers’ Attitudes Towards Risks, Strategic Uncertainty, and Competitiveness
Hao, Li - 2014
Using a field experiment in China, we study whether migration status is correlated with attitudes toward risk …. Our results suggest that migration may be driven more by a stronger belief in one's ability to succeed in an uncertain and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013053357
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A Field Study of Chinese Migrant Workers' Attitudes Toward Risks, Strategic Uncertainty, and Competitiveness
Hao, Li - 2014
Using a field experiment in China, we study whether migration status is correlated with attitudes toward risk …. Our results suggest that migration may be driven more by a stronger belief in one's ability to succeed in an uncertain and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013053399
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Migration and aspirations : are migrants trapped on a hedonic treadmill?
Czaika, Mathias; Vothknecht, Marc - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-21
find evidence that migrants are self-selected along higher individual aspirations acquired (or, inherited) before migration …. However, despite the fact that migration is economically beneficial for most migrants, the migration experience itself seems …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010360326
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Migration Experience, Aspirations and the Brain Drain Theory and Empirical Evidence
Böhme, Marcus H.; Glaser, Toni - 2014
a migration experience, which increases the migrant's aspirations. This will induce her to invest more in the education … given migration rate. We show that the optimal migration rate that maximizes the post-migration skill-rate of the population … is higher if we allow for the aspirations effect of migration. We use panel data from Indonesia to demonstrate that a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014142277
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The dynamics of immigrant welfare and labor market behavior
Hansen, Jörgen; Lofstrom, Magnus - 2001
This paper analyzes transitions into and out of 3 different labor market states, social assistance, unemployment and employment. We estimate a dynamic multinomial logit model, controlling for endogenous initial condition and unobserved heterogeneity, using a large representative Swedish panel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403758
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Immigration and heterogeneous labor in Western Germany : a labor market classification based on nonparametric estimation
Frölich, Markus; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2002
This paper presents a methodology to identify net demand shocks as well as wage rigidities in heterogeneous labor markets on the basis of nonparametric regression. We show how this approach can be used to make suggestions for immigration policy in economies with labor market rigidities. In an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011447106