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We review developments in research on within-country migration, focusing on internal migration in the U.S. We begin by describing approaches to modelling individuals' migration decisions and equilibrium outcomes across local areas. Next, we summarize evidence regarding the impact of migration on...
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redistribution receive a negative selection of Italian migrants. This holds true after accounting for many individual and country … level covariates, migration costs, and when testing for stochastic dominance of the skill distributions of migrants and …
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The Roy-Borjas model predicts that international migrants are less educated than nonmigrants because the returns to … predictions and empirical evidence can be resolved when the human capital of migrants is assessed using a two-dimensional measure …
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The Roy-Borjas model predicts that international migrants are less educated than nonmigrants because the returns to … predictions and empirical evidence can be resolved when the human capital of migrants is assessed using a two-dimensional measure …
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Belgian LFS Ad Hoc Module on the labour market situation of migrants and their immediate descendants, we compare the … employment outcomes of labour migrants (with and without a job prior to migration), family reunion migrants, student migrants and … refugees with those of the native-born. In line with previous studies, we establish that refugees and family reunion migrants …
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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 … to further increase economic aspirations, hereby trapping migrants on a "hedonic treadmill". …
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estimate the model exploiting panel data on migrants and stayers in Burkina Faso, and cross-sectional data on permanent … education, while migrants at the extremes of the education distribution tend to move abroad. Local unemployment rates, skilled … migration costs, as well as by higher investment in education (for rural migrants). Migration prospects to urban centres drive …
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moving into a jurisdiction, we look inward and study the impact of domestic migrants (those who moved into a state from … domestic migrants are affecting the immigration climate of their new home states. Domestic migrants are more likely to be …, domestic migrants coming from states with negative ICI scores have a negative effect on their new states’ ICI scores. Moreover …
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We investigate the wage assimilation of East Germans who migrated to West Germany after reunification (1990-1999). We compare their wage assimilation to that of ethnic German immigrants from Eastern Bloc countries and international immigrants to West Germany who arrived at the same time. The...
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We investigate the wage assimilation of East Germans who migrated to West Germany after reunification (1990-1999). We compare their wage assimilation to that of ethnic German immigrants from Eastern Bloc countries and international immigrants to West Germany who arrived at the same time. The...
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