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The political economy of mobility partnerships : structural power in the EU's external migration policy
Maisenbacher, Julia - In: New political economy 20 (2015) 6, pp. 871-893
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011416516
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Immigration and heterogeneous labor in Western Germany : a labor market classification based on nonparametric estimation
Frölich, Markus; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2002
This paper presents a methodology to identify net demand shocks as well as wage rigidities in heterogeneous labor markets on the basis of nonparametric regression. We show how this approach can be used to make suggestions for immigration policy in economies with labor market rigidities. In an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011447106
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Reshaping the schooling system: The role of immigration
Dottori, Davide; Estevan, Fernanda; Shen, I-Ling - In: Journal of Economic Theory 148 (2013) 5, pp. 2124-2149
This paper studies how the schooling system may be impacted by the number and skill type of immigrants. When the number of low-skilled immigrants is large, the education regime tends to become segregated. Wealthy locals are more likely to choose private schools and vote for a lower tax rate to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010702850
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Remittances, migrants' education and immigration policy: Theory and evidence from bilateral data
Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel; Salomone, Sara - In: Regional Science and Urban Economics 42 (2012) 5, pp. 817-828
-selective. These predictions are then tested empirically using bilateral remittance and migration data and proxy measures for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010588337
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Dissecting Network Externalities in International Migration
Beine, Michel; Docquier, Frédéric; Özden, Caglar - Centre de Recherche en Économie Appliquée (CREA), … - 2011
the net benefits of migration by reduc- ing assimilation costs (’self-selection channel’) and by lowering legal entry … elasticity of migration flows to network size is around one. Second, only a quarter of this elasticity is accounted for by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009151337
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Dissecting Network Externalities in International Migration
BEINE, Michel; DOCQUIER, Frédéric; ÖZDEN, Caglar - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2011
the net benefits of migration by reducing assimilation costs (’self-selection channel’) and by lowering legal entry … elasticity of migration flows to network size is around one. Second, only a quarter of this elasticity is accounted for by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009197247
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A micro-funded theory of multilateral resistance to migration
Marchal, Léa; Naiditch, Claire - 2016
This paper provides a micro-funded theory of multilateral resistance to migration analyzing how financial constraints … determine migration trends. We build a RUM model in which we explicitly introduce the budget constraint in the migration … decision: individuals cannot afford migrating to a destination for which the migration cost (which depends on the immigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011540703
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Brain Drain and LDCs' Growth: Winners and Losers
Beine, Michel; Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel - 2002
recent US data on migration rates by education levels (Carrington and Detragiache, 1998), we find empirical support for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013204721
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Best and Brightest? The Impact of Student Visa Restrictiveness on Who Attends College in the US
Chen, Mingyu; Howell, Jessica; Smith, Jonathan - 2022
Recent immigration policies have created massive uncertainty for international students to obtain F-1 visas. Yet, before the COVID-19 pandemic, student visa applicants already faced an approximately 27 percent refusal rate that varies by time and region. Using data on the universe of SAT takers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351723
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Economic Impacts of Migration and Population Growth
Commission, Productivity - Productivity Commission, Government of Australia
The Productivity Commission release its research report into the ‘Economic Impacts of Migration and Population Growth …’ in May 2006. According to the Commission’s findings increasing skilled migration would make a positive, but small …. To assess the effect of skilled migration, the Commission estimated the economic effects of a simulated permanent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008487675