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Living with the neighbors : the effect of Venezuelan forced migration on wages in Colombia
Peñaloza Pacheco, Leonardo - 2019
The aim of this paper is to estimate the causal effect of the migration of Venezuelans to Colombia on the Colombian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012029807
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Living with the neighbors : the effect of Venezuelan forced migration on the labor market in Colombia
Peñaloza-Pacheco, Leonardo - In: Journal for labour market research 56 (2022) 1, pp. 1-32
I estimate the effect of the Venezuelan exodus on the Colombian labor market. The economic and social crisis in Venezuela triggered one of the most important migratory exoduses in recent decades: more than 4 million Venezuelans left their country and close to 1.8 million arrived in Colombia. I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013368665
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Immigration and unemployment in Europe : does the core-periphery dualism matter?
Esposito, Piero; Collignon, Stefan; Scicchitano, Sergio - 2019
In this paper, we assess the impact of immigration and unemployment for a sample of 15 EU countries between 1997 and 2016. We test for the existence of a core-periphery dualism based on differences in macroeconomic fundamentals and labour market characteristics. We use a Panel Error Correction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012162043
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The dynamics of international migration: Introduction
Stark, Oded - In: International Review of Economics and Finance 28 (2013), pp. 1-2
dynamics of international migration by highlighting the role of tradition in propelling migration; by admitting that the human … capital formation response to the prospect of migration is gradual; by studying the impact of such formation on economic … growth and welfare; by working out the consequences of the migration of parents for the wellbeing of their children; by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012516186
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Migrants and economic performance in the EU15 : their allocations across countries, industries and job types and their (productivity) growth impacts at the sectoral and regional le...
Landesmann, Michael; Stehrer, Robert; Liebensteiner, Mario - 2010
add migration variables to robust determinants of growth and find positive and significant relationships between migrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011392342
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Freedom of movement for workers : relaxing immigration restrictions could greatly improve the well-being of people in developing countries, with little effect on wages
Kennan, John - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420240
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Labour migration to the UK from Eastern partnership countries
Clark, Kenneth; Drinkwater, Stephen J. - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 3 (2014) 15, pp. 1-19
migrants. Despite the potential for increased migration to fill skill gaps, immigration policies and attitudes to immigrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010533164
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Female migration and native marital stability : insights from Italy
Vignoli, Daniele; Venturini, Alessandra; Pirani, Elena - 2015
In this paper, we argue that the size and the composition of the female migrant population in a given area can affect the marital stability of natives. We take Italy as a case-study and we offer discrete-time event history models predicting marital disruption on data from the nationally –...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011347111
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European Union expansion and migration
Kahanec, Martin; Kureková, Lucia Mýtna - 2011
actual migration flows following the enlargements against the pre-enlargement expectations and perceptions. We then review … countries’ perspective the risks of out-migration lie in skill shortages in affected occupations or sectors as well as the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009419128
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Migrant networks and the spread of misinformation
Elsner, Benjamin; Narciso, Gaia; Thijssen, Jacco J. J. - 2013
in the host country. While the existing literature explains the effect of networks on migration decisions through the … migration. Yet we find no evidence that the quality of the network affects the timing of migration. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010230050