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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
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Shaking Up the Equilibrium : Natural Disasters, Immigration and Economic Geography
Ager, Philipp - 2015
This paper investigates the effects of a large temporary shock on the agglomeration of economic activity. Using variation in the potential damage intensity of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake across counties in the American West, we find that the earthquake persistently decreased various...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013013158
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On the Pro-Trade Effects of Immigrants
Bratti, Massimiliano - 2012
In this paper we investigate the causal effect of immigration on trade flows, using Italian panel data covering very small geographical units (NUTS-3). Exploiting the very favorable setup offered by Italy's features – the very high number of countries of origin of immigrants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104938
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On the Pro-Trade Effects of Immigrants
Bratti, Massimiliano - 2013
In this paper we investigate the causal effect of immigration on tradeflows. We exploit the very favorable set-up offered by the Italian panel data — the fine geographical disaggregation (provinces, i.e., Nomenclature of territorial units for statistics 3 level l — NUTS-3), the very high...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086898
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Is skilled immigration always good for growth in the receiving economy?
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2010
A highly skilled immigration can be growth enhancing if the positive contribution of the imported brains to the host … growth depleting if the latter effect dominates. …
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Migration and Macroeconomic Performance in New Zealand: Theory and Evidence
Fry, Julie - 2014
significant net benefits, over the past couple of decades the positive effects of immigration on per capita growth, productivity …, together with other forms of population growth, has exacerbated pressures on New Zealand's insufficiently-responsive housing … immigration could facilitate lower interest rates, a lower exchange rate, and more balanced growth going forward. …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261861
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Demographic and Economic Pressure on Emigration out of Africa
Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2001
exactly the same forces are at work driving African across-border migration today. Rapid growth in the cohort of young … migration. A century ago, more modest demographic forces in Europe were accompanied by strong catching-up economic growth in the … low-wage emigrant regions, followed by a slowdown in already-modest demographic growth. Yet, migrations were still mass …
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