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Challenged by migration : Europe's options
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2017
This paper examines the migration and labor mobility in the European Union and elaborates on their importance for the … that migration is beneficial is broken. This comes with a crisis of European institutions in general. Migration and labor … survive or collapse even if it solves its migration challenge. But it will most likely collapse, if it fails to solve the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012111774
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Chapter 12. The Refugee/Asylum Seeker
Chin, Aimee; Cortes, Kalena E. - In: Handbook of the economics of international migration : …, (pp. 585-658). 2015
This chapter discusses the research in economics on refugees and asylum seekers. Section 1 describes the trends in asylum seeking by source and host country. Section 2 presents a conceptual framework on why refugees might differ from other types of immigrants, and provides a new analysis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025471
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Ethnicity and the immigration of highly skilled workers to the United States
Jasso, Guillermina - 2009
proportions in EB-2 and EB-3 sent remittances than in the cohort overall. (6) A little measure of assimilation - using dollars to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269358
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The social preferences of the native inhabitants, and the decision how many asylum seekers to admit
Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin; Szczygielski, Krzysztof - 2019
We consider a tax-funded policy of admitting and integrating asylum seekers in a country in which the incomes of the native inhabitants are differentiated; for the sake of simplicity, we assume that there are just two groups of native inhabitants: high-income natives and low-income natives. As a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012136177
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The social preferences of the native inhabitants, and the decision how many asylum seekers to admit
Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin; Szczygielski, Krzysztof - 2019
We consider a tax-funded policy of admitting and integrating asylum seekers in a country in which the incomes of the native inhabitants are differentiated; for the sake of simplicity, we assume that there are just two groups of native inhabitants: high-income natives and low-income natives. As a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012136945
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Aging, factor returns, and immigration policy
Calahorrano, Lena; Lorz, Oliver - 2009
In this note we analyze how aging affects immigration policy. We set up a dynamic political-economy model of representative democracy in which the government of the destination country sets the immigration level to maximize aggregate welfare of the constituency. Aging, i.e. a decline in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003852260
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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