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education on both the incidence and timing of internal migration. In addition, for the first time in literature, we provide … causal effects of education on migration by reason for migration. We find that while education substantially increases the … incidence of migration among men, there is no evidence of an effect among women. Women, however, become more likely to migrate …
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migration, as well as on local labor market outcomes. I leverage the introduction of FUNDEF, a large federal program that …
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This paper derives original series of average years of schooling in the United States 1870-1930, which take into account the impact of mass migrations on the US educational level. We reconstruct the foreign-born US population by age and by country of origin, while combining data on the flow of...
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education on both the incidence and timing of internal migration. In addition, for the first time in literature, we provide … causal effects of education on migration by reason for migration. We find that while education substantially increases the … incidence of migration among men, there is no evidence of an effect among women. Women, however, become more likely to migrate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012390883
This paper exploits the extremely rich Youth in Transition Survey (YITS) data to investigate access to post‐secondary education (PSE) among the children of immigrants in Canada. The YITS respondents considered to be the children of immigrants in this paper include: i) those who came to this...
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Millions of households in developing countries receive financial support from family members working overseas. How do the economic prospects of overseas migrants affect origin-household investments - in particular, in child human capital and household enterprises? This paper examines Philippine...
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The close connection between US and China in scientific research and education in the 2000s produced a large group of China-born researchers who work in the US ("diaspora") and a larger group of China-born researchers who gained US-research experience and returned to do their research in China...
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the global migration framework. This Essay examines how existing provisions of refugee law, international human rights law …
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This paper reviews the recent research on the determinants of the educational attainment among the children of immigrants born in Canada and the United States, also known as the second generation. The focus is on the gap in educational attainment between the second and third-and-higher...
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migration there over the period 1971-2001. What we find is that the stock of foreign students is an important predictor of … subsequent migration. This holds true whether or not the lagged endogenous variable is included. The relationship is robust to … discuss in the last section. -- migration ; education ; student flows ; brain drain …
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