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The European crisis and migration to Germany : expectations and the diversion of migration flows ; conference paper

Bertoli, Simone; Brücker, Herbert; Fernández-Huertas … - 2013

The analysis of how the economic crisis in Europe has reshaped migration flows faces two challenges: (i) the confounding influence of correlated changes in the attractiveness of alternative destinations, and (ii) the role of rapidly changing expectations about the evolution of the economic...

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The healthy immigrant paradox and health convergence

Constant, Amelie - 2017

The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental dimensions of any country. Yet it is often the missing statistic in all general statistics, demographics, and presentations about the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011735974

English as a gateway? : immigration and public opinion in Japan

Green, David; Kadoya, Yoshihiko - 2013

Japan, like most of the developed world, faces potentially extreme demographic shortfalls brought on by a rapidly aging society with a long life expectancy and low birthrate. Where other western countries have utilized greater levels of immigration to help fight these tendencies, immigration...

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Remittances, Migrants' Education and Immigration Policy : Theory and Evidence from Bilateral Data

Docquier, Frédéric - 2011

We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using … original bilateral remittance data. At a theoretical level we lay out a model of remittances interacting migrants' human … between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The …

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Occupation-specific south-north migration

Heuer, Nina - 2010

This paper presents occupation-specific data on south-north migration around the year 2000 using employment data for developing sending and OECD receiving countries from ILO and OECD. These data reveal that the incidence of south-north migration was highest among professionals, one of the two...

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Selection or Network Effects? : Migration Flows into 27 OECD Countries, 1990-2000

Pedersen, Peder J.; Pytlikova, Mariola; Smith, Nina - 2004

Recent migration patterns show growing migration pressure and changing composition of immigrants in many Western countries. During the latest decade, an increasing proportion of the OECD immigrants have been from poor countries, where the educational level of the population is low. The migration...

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Demographic and Economic Pressure on Emigration out of Africa

Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2001

Two of the main forces driving European emigration in the late nineteenth century were real wage gaps between sending and receiving regions and demographic booms in the low-wage sending regions (directly augmenting the supply of potential movers as well as indirectly making already-measured...

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Crossing the border: Self-selection, earnings and individual migration decisions

Bertoli, Simone; Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Jesús; … - 2010

Many empirical studies on the determinants of international migration flows rely exclusively on macro data, and do not account for migrants' self-selection. We analyze a very interesting episode in international migration for which we are able to gather individual-level data covering all...

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Visa policies, networks and the cliff at the border

Bertoli, Simone; Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Jesús - 2012

The scale of international migration flows depends on moving costs that are, in turn, influenced by host-country policies and by the size of migrant networks at destination. This paper estimates the influence of visa policies and networks upon bilateral migration flows to multiple destinations....

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Migration and networks : does education matter more than gender?

Beine, Michel; Salomone, Sara - 2010

This paper looks at the impact of networks on international migration flows to OECD countries. In particular, we look at whether diaspora effects are different across education levels and gender. Using new data allowing to include both dimensions, we are able to analyze the respective impact of...

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