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The massive displacement of Venezuelan citizens to Colombia is the second most important episode of forced migration in … heterogeneity in the intensity of migration. We use RIF regressions in an instrumental variables approach to account for the non …
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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...
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population leads to a stronger incentive to engage in migration for a given level of a population’s income; that total relative … deprivation is positively related to the Gini coefficient; and that, consequently, the Gini coefficient and migration are …
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. However, migration also changes relative wages, alters the distribution of skills and affects equality in the receiving …
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The most basic economic theory suggests that rising incomes in developing countries will deter emigration from those countries, an idea that captivates policymakers in international aid and trade diplomacy. A lengthy literature and recent data suggest something quite different: that over the...
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origin countries, it also induces positive effects through various channels such as remittances, return migration, diaspora … praise the unambiguous benefits of unskilled migration for developing countries, my analysis suggests that a limited but …
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migration of workers. For nearly all of the world's countries, our micro-founded model jointly endogenizes the effects of …. Climate change intensifies poverty and income inequality creating favorable conditions for urbanization and migration from low … ages) over the course of the 21st century. However, under current migration laws and policies, forcibly displaced people …
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We investigate the impact of regional migration on average wages and on wage inequality in the West African Economic … migrants in absence of migration to evaluate the effect of regional migration when the effect of migration is purely … compositional (i.e., when wages are treated as exogenous). We find that regional migration increases average wages by 1.8% and …
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migration behaviour. Prior to 2017, offshore investment returns for 'non-doms' - individuals tax-resident in the UK but with …
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experienced an increase in labor force participation and attracted more net migration, particularly of unskilled workers …
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