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African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU). We focus on migration ows within the WAEMU countries to disentangle the … show that migration in the WAEMU is associated with a decline in female labor participation, as it is primarily motivated … robust to accounting for the double selection into shocks and migration using a Propensity Score Matching technique that …
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Migration has long been considered one of the key mechanisms through which labor markets adjust to economic shocks. In … this paper, we analyze the migration response of American workers to two of the most important shocks that have hit Western … reduced in-migration into rather than increased out-migration away from affected areas. In the second part of the paper, we …
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Using a synthetic control estimation strategy we examine the economic impact of a large inflow of people from Puerto Rico into Orlando in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, which devastated Puerto Rico in September 2017. We find that aggregate employment in Orlando increased as a result of the...
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This paper develops and estimates a joint hazard-longitudinal (JHL) model of the timing of migration and labor market … endogenous age of entry in estimating the returns to years since migration by allowing cross-equation correlations of random …
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The aim of this paper is to estimate the causal effect of the migration of Venezuelans to Colombia on the Colombian …
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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...
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international migration. Examining social identity and labor market outcomes in China, the country with the largest internal …
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robust to controlling for potentially endogenous return migration and labor force participation. Controls for fixed effects …
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robust to controlling for potentially endogenous return migration and labor force participation. Controls for fixed effects …
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previous Latin American immigrants falls when controlling for out-migration. This highlights the importance of controlling for … out-migration not only of natives but also of previous immigrants in regional studies of immigration …
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