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What are migration networks?
Bauer, Thomas K.; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2000
-village-specific variables on migrants' location choice. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339098
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What are Migration Networks?
Bauer, Thomas K.; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2021
-village-specific variables on migrants' location choice …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321235
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What are migration networks?
Bauer, Thomas K.; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2000
-village-specific variables on migrants' location choice. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011576995
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Source country characteristics and immigrants’ optimal migration duration decision
Kırdar, Murat G. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-21
This paper examines how immigrants’ optimal migration duration in the host country responds to the purchasing power parity (ppp) and relative wages between the host and source countries. A theoretical model of joint migration duration and saving decisions reveals that the optimal migration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009758597
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How skilled immigration may improve economic equality
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-13
Mobile workers involve flows of labor and human capital and contribute to a more efficient allocation of resources. However, migration also changes relative wages, alters the distribution of skills and affects equality in the receiving society. The paper suggests that skilled immigration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010361361
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Immigrants' wage growth and selective out-migration
Bijwaard, Govert; Wahba, Jackline - 2014
previous literature. We distinguish between two types of migrants: labor and family migrants given their different labor market …. Controlling for the selective out-migration and endogeneity of labor supply, we find that labor out-migrants are positively … selected but family out-migrants are negatively selected. Furthermore, the findings underscore the importance of taking into …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434501
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118275
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Estimating Immigrant Earnings Profiles When Migrations are Temporary
Dustmann, Christian - 2016
The assumption that all migrations are permanent, which pervaded the early microdata-based research on immigrant career profiles, is not supported by the empirical evidence. Rather, many – if not most – migrations appear to be temporary. In this paper, therefore, we illustrate the estimation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012988305
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Do high-income or low-income immigrants leave faster?
Bijwaard, Govert; Wahba, Jackline - 2013
We estimate the impact of the income earned in the host country on return migration of labor migrants from developing … to the Netherlands. The empirical results show that intensities of return migration are U-shaped with respect to migrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010211160
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Heterogeneous technology diffusion and ricardian trade patterns
Kerr, William R. - 2016
on the development of new technologies across U.S. cities with historical settlement patterns for migrants from countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011568775