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Theory suggests that groups historically subject to discrimination, such as Jews, could exhibit traditionally high investment in education because discrimination spurred exit facilitated by human capital. Theory moreover suggests that if exit is uncertain, it could induce investment in skill...
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find that while general migration has an insignificant effect on the destination country's corruption level, immigration …This paper analyzes the impact of migration on destination-country corruption levels. Capitalizing on a comprehensive … dataset consisting of annual immigration stocks of OECD countries from 207 countries of origin for the period 1984 - 2008, we …
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We exploit the increase in immigration flows into western European countries that took place in the 2000s to assess … whether immigration affects crime victimization and the perception of criminality among European natives. Using data from the … estimations that deal with the endogenous sorting of immigration by region and with the sampling error in survey based measures of …
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This paper analyzes the impact of migration on destination-country corruption levels. Capitalizing on a comprehensive … dataset consisting of annual immigration stocks of OECD countries from 207 countries of origin for the period 1984 - 2008, we … consistently find that while general migration has an insignificant effect on the destination country's corruption level …
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, I show that poor households' entitlement to an exogenous, temporary but guaranteed income stream increases US migration … collateral to finance the migration. The individuals who start migrating because of this income shock belong to households with …. These results suggest that financial constraints to international migration are binding for poor Mexicans, some of whom …
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During recent waves of immigration, support for nationalist parties has increased in many countries, but the political … backlash against immigration differs strongly across regions. We identify an underlying cause for these differences by studying … how local experience with immigration shapes nationalist sentiment and electoral reactions to current immigration in the …
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Many governments seek to reduce emigration from low-income countries by encouraging economic development there. A large literature, however, observes that average emigration rates are higher in countries with sustained increases in GDP per capita than in either chronically poor countries or...
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determined both the attractiveness of different US counties at the time of migration, as well as current levels of development …. The results indicate that while there is a strong and positive impact associated with overall migration, the national …
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internal and international out-migration of the Polish population. I provide supportive evidence that the decrease in out-migration …Russia's attacks against Ukraine have triggered massive and unexpected migration movements. In this paper, I examine … the impact of the inflow of Ukrainians that resulted from Russia's aggression in 2014 on local migration patterns in …
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on immigration. My aim is to identify facts about international migration relevant to those concerned about why labor …In this chapter, I discuss the recent academic research on international migration, focusing on the causes and …
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