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deal of discretion to the individual member countries, which allows them to regulate refugee migration while still …
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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 …
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This project focuses on comparing the qualification structure of migrants residing in Austria as well as their over- and underqualification rates to other EU countries. The skill structure of foreign born residing in Austria has improved slightly in the last years. Austria is, however,...
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Most developed countries have foreign aid programs that aim to alleviate poverty and foster economic growth in less developed countries, but with very limited success. A large body of evidence indicates that the root of the economic development problem is cross-country differences in the...
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This paper examines UK migration policy and recent migration flows from Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries to the UK … for increased migration from the EaP countries to help fill skill gaps, it seems very unlikely that the UK will allow …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010196424
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/10011540015
We examine changes in migration to the UK in the period leading up to the Great Recession and in its immediate … aftermath. In so doing, we pay particular attention to the changing countries of origin of recent migration flows to the UK …, especially in relation to migration from other parts of the EU. The evolving patterns of migrants' socio-economic characteristics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398735
For decades, migration economics has stressed the effects of migration restrictions on income distribution in the host … country. Recently the literature has taken a new direction by estimating the costs of migration restrictions to global … economic efficiency. In contrast, a new strand of research posits that migration restrictions could be not only desirably …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452382
. Nonetheless, while BD has been studied extensively, AD drain has not. I examine migration's impact on ability (a), education (h …), which combines PS and VS (e.g., Canada, 2015+). I find that i) Migration reduces (raises) source country residents …
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view tends to neglect two important dynamic effects: the role of migration networks, which could reduce immigrants' quality …, and the responsiveness of education decisions to the prospects of migration. Our model shows that migration networks and … immigration policies, the initial pattern of migrants' self-selection on education, and the way time-equivalent migration costs by …
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