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Human trafficking, a shadow of migration : evidence from Germany
Cho, Seo-young - 2012
This paper empirically analyzes the relationship between migration and human trafficking inflows into Germany during the period between 2001 and 2010. My results suggest that migrant networks, measured by migrant stocks from a specific source country, have a causal linkage with the illicit,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009665408
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The new economic case for migration restrictions : an assessment
Clemens, Michael A.; Pritchett, Lant - 2016
For decades, migration economics has stressed the effects of migration restrictions on income distribution in the host country. Recently the literature has taken a new direction by estimating the costs of migration restrictions to global economic efficiency. In contrast, a new strand of research...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452382
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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
where they can be more productive. Yet immigration laws severely constrain such movement. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420240
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Migration on the rise, a paradigm in decline : the last half-century of global mobility
Clemens, Michael A. - 2022
The past several decades have witnessed a rebirth of global labor mobility. Workers have begun to move between countries at rates not seen since before World War One. During the same period, economists' study of international migration has been framed by a particular textbook model of location...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012820735
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Immigration and wages : new evidence from the African American Great Migration
Gardner, John - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 5 (2016) 22, pp. 1-45
local and aggregate wage effect estimates has implications for our general understanding of how immigration and wages are … aggregate Northern labor market to provide new evidence on the effects of the Great Migration on wages in the North, redoubling … the evidence that it caused large declines in wages for blacks, with little effect for whites. The agreement between my …
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A joint hazard-longitudinal model of the timing of migration, immigrant quality, and labor market assimilation
Jain, Apoorva; Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2017
attrition and missing wages are also addressed. Using German household panel surveys from 1984 to 2014 and home country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011704297
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Mexican migration to the United States : underlying economic factors and possible scenarios for future flows
Chiquiar, Daniel; Salcedo, Alejandrina - 2013
In this paper we examine some economic factors that have influenced migration flows from Mexico to the United States since 1990 for the purpose of constructing scenarios on how such flows could evolve in the near term. In particular, we link the behavior of migration to changes in sectoral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010205997
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The impact of technology and trade on migration : evidence from the US
Faber, Marius; Sarto, Andrés; Tabellini, Marco - 2020
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 economies since the late 1990s – import competition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012177544
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Human Trafficking, a Shadow of Migration - Evidence from Germany
Cho, Seo-Young - 2016
This paper investigates relationship between migration and human trafficking in Germany by analyzing macro-level data from 150 countries. The empirical results suggest that migrant networks of a specific source country pull human trafficking from that respective country. However, the migration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014165296
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Over-qualification of immigrants in the UK
Altorjai, Szilvia - 2013
immigrants from different countries and arriving under different immigration policy regimes vary in their probability of over …-qualification. The results suggest that both country of origin (sending factor) and immigration policy (selecting factor) matter and that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009767284