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Lucas, Robert E.B. - In: Handbook of the economics of international migration : …, (pp. 1445-1596). 2015

Factors shaping international migration, over the last half century, from and into the countries and territories of sub-Saharan and North Africa, as well as the economic and some social implications of those movements, are examined. Existing analyses of these issues are critically reviewed,...

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Managing migration flows through foreign aid

Marchal, Léa; Naiditch, Claire; Simsek, Betül - 2021

This paper investigates through which channels foreign aid impacts migration to donor countries. To disentangle the non-donor-specific channels (development and credit constraint channels) from the donor-specific channels (information and instrumentation channels), we use the fact that...

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Migration from Africa, the Middle East and European neighbouring countries to the EU : an augmented gravity modelling approach

Mara, Isilda; Landesmann, Michael - 2021

The South-North migration corridor, i.e. migration flows to the EU from Africa, the Middle East and EU neighbouring countries in the East, have overtaken the East-West migration corridor, i.e. migration flows from Central and East European countries to the EU15 and the European Free Trade...

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International migration of skilled workers with endogenous policies

Djajić, Slobodan; Michael, Michael S. - 2014

We study the interaction between the optimal immigration policy of a host country and education policy of a source … source country, and attitudes to immigration in the host country. Of key interest are the implications for the optimal … spending on education in the source country and the optimal immigration quota of the host country. …

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International migration of skilled workers with endogenous policies

Djajić, Slobodan; Michael, Michael S. - 2014

We study the interaction between the optimal immigration policy of a host country and education policy of a source … country, and attitudes to immigration in the host country. Of key interest are the implications for the optimal spending on … education in the source country and the optimal immigration quota of the host country. …

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Chapter 66. International Migration and the Developing World

Hanson, Gordon H. - In: Handbook of development economics : volume 5, (pp. 4363-4414). 2010

on immigration. My aim is to identify facts about international migration relevant to those concerned about why labor …

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Estimating immigrant earnings profiles when migrations are temporary

Dustmann, Christian; Görlach, Joseph-Simon - 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...

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Drawbridges down : altruism and immigration preferences

Hansen, Ole-Petter Moe; Legge, Stefan - 2016

preferences over immigration. Using data from the European Social Survey from 2014 and 2015, our results document that individual … norms and values strongly shape preferences over immigration, even when controlling for expected costs and benefits from … immigration. In particular, we find that altruistic attitudes significantly raise the support for all types of immigration while …

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Expelling excellence : exchange visitor restrictions on high-skill migrants in the United States

Clemens, Michael A.; Neufeld, Jeremy; Nice, Amy M. - 2024

We examine a little-known restriction on high-skill immigration to the United States, the Exchange Visitor Skills List …

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Managing Migration Through Quotas : An Option-Theory Perspective

Moretto, Michele; Vergalli, Sergio - 2008

Recent European Legislation on immigration has revealed a particular paradox on migration policies. On the one hand … immigration quotas. On the other hand, there is an increase of regularization, i.e., European policies are becoming less tight …. Our aim here is to study these counterbalanced and opposite policies in European immigration legislation in a unified …

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