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Does development reduce migration?
Clemens, Michael A. - 2014
suggest something quite different: that over the course of a "mobility transition", emigration generally rises with economic … explain the mobility transition and numerous tests of its existence and characteristics in both macro- and micro-level data … development until countries reach upper-middle income, and only thereafter falls. This note quantifies the shape of the mobility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010423766
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Inter-regional mobility in the accession countries : a comparison to EU-15 member states
Huber, Peter - 2005
This paper uses a data set covering 9 EU15 member states and 7 candidate countries and new member states to compare inter-regional migration patterns in the 1990s. We find that migration is lower in candidate countries and new member states than in EU15 member states. Also in contrast to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011494658
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The emigration life cycle: how development shapes emigration from poor countries
Clemens, Michael A. - 2020
channels for this relationship highlight the joint importance of demographic transition, education investment, and structural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269072
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Post-enlargement emigration and new EU members' labor markets : outmigration has contributed to increasing wages and decreasing unemployment in the new EU member states but may als...
Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2014
The recent EU enlargements into Central and Eastern Europe and increased labor mobility within the Union provide a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011417106
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How to attract foreign students : international student mobility can be good for migrating students, their home country, the host country, and those remaining at home
Chevalier, Arnaud - 2014
, international student mobility can be beneficial for all participants: migrating students and those who remain at home, as well as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011416339
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The impact of aging on the scale of migration : older people migrate less than young, yet with population aging, mobility of elderly and specialized workers may increase
Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2014
reduce migration. However, migration of the elderly, return retirement migration, as well as mobility of certain specialist …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421957
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Job search, locus of control, and internal migration
Caliendo, Marco; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Hennecke, Juliane - 2015
Internal migration can substantially improve labor market efficiency. Consequently, policy is often targeted towards reducing the barriers workers face in moving to new labor markets. In this paper we explicitly model internal migration as the result of a job search process and demonstrate that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011428153
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Aggregate-level migration studies as a tool for forecasting future migration streams
Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2000
Assessing the migration potential and predicting future migration streams are among the most relevant, yet least well understood topics of migration research. The usual approach taken to address aggregate-level prediction problems is to fit ad hoc specifications to historical data, and to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011336860
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Job search, locus of control, and internal migration
Caliendo, Marco; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Hennecke, Juliane - 2016
Internal migration can substantially improve labor market efficiency. Consequently, policy is often targeted towards reducing the barriers workers face in moving to new labor markets. In this paper we explicitly model internal migration as the result of a job search process and demonstrate that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450958
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Brain Drain and Inequality Across Nations
Docquier, Frédéric - 2006
Is the brain drain a curse or a boon for developing countries? This paper reviews what is known to date about the magnitude of the brain drain from developing to developed countries, its determinants and the way it affects the well-being of those left behind. First, I present alternative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779028