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Genetic distance and international migrant selection
Krieger, Tim; Renner, Laura; Ruhose, Jens - 2015 - This version: July 2015
This paper looks at the effect of the relatedness of two countries, measured by their genetic distance, on educational migrant selection. We analyze bilateral country-level education-specific migration stocks from 85 sending countries to the 15 main destination countries in 2000 and show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011300374
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Culture, selection, and international migration : conference paper
Krieger, Tim; Renner, Laura; Ruhose, Jens - 2014 - Preliminary
This paper looks at the e ffect of cultural barriers on the skill selection of international migration. The data covers bilateral migration stocks by skill level in 2000 from about 99 sending countries to the main 15 destination countries. We use genetic distance as a proxy for cultural distance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010485255
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Migrating Football Players, Transfer Fees and Migration Controls
Verbon, Harrie A. A. - 2021
Since the famous Bosman ruling by the European Court of Justice in 1995 transfer fees for football players after moving … unrestricted market free migration from football players will be Pareto efficient under special circumstances only. This paper … shows that transfer fees can correct inefficient migration flows from small to large football leagues. Home-grown rules that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317030
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When Drains and Gains Coincide : Migration and International Football Performance
Berlinschi, Ruxanda; Schokkaert, Jeroen; Swinnen, Johan … - 2012
We analyze the effects of football player migration to foreign leagues on the performance of their home country … national teams. We provide a theoretical model predicting a positive effect of migration on international football performance … cross country data on international football performance. In order to accurately measure the effect of skill acquisitions by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014192496
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Social networks and (political) assimilationin the age of mass migration
Biavaschi, Costanza; Giulietti, Corrado; Zenou, Yves - 2022
This paper investigates the causal pathways through which ethnic social networks influence individual naturalization. Using the complete-count Census of 1930, we digitize information on the exact residence of newly arrived immigrants in New York City. This allows us to define networks with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012816845
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The economic payoff of name Americanization
Biavaschi, Costanza; Giulietti, Corrado; Siddique, Zahra - 2013
We examine the impact of the Americanization of names on the labor market outcomes of migrants. We construct a novel longitudinal data set of naturalization records in which we track a complete sample of migrants who naturalize by 1930. We find that migrants who Americanized their names...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010211271
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The healthy immigrant paradox and health convergence
Constant, Amelie - 2017
insights into the Healthy Immigrant Paradox and the health assimilation of immigrants as we also elucidate selection and … measurement challenges. While health is part of human capital, health assimilation is the mirror image of earnings assimilation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119651
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The healthy immigrant paradox and health convergence
Constant, Amelie - 2017
insights into the Healthy Immigrant Paradox and the health assimilation of immigrants as we also elucidate selection and … measurement challenges. While health is part of human capital, health assimilation is the mirror image of earnings assimilation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011735974
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Social identity and labor market outcomes of internal migrant workers
Cai, Shu; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2024 - This version: January 9, 2024
Previous research on internal mobility has neglected the role of local identity contrary to studies analyzing international migration. Examining social identity and labor market outcomes in China, the country with the largest internal mobility in the world, closes the gap. Instrumental variable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014464452
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Genetic Distance and International Migrant Selection
Krieger, Tim - 2015
This paper looks at the effect of the relatedness of two countries, measured by their genetic distance, on educational migrant selection. We analyze bilateral country-level education-specific migration stocks from 85 sending countries to the 15 main destination countries in 2000 and show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013018280