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substantial tax-induced emigration responses, primarily driven by the top 1% of earners. Highly mobile individuals within the top …
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data from Moldova, one of the countries with the highest emigration rates in the world, and an instrumental variable …
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data from Moldova, one of the countries with the highest emigration rates in the world, and an instrumental variable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410550
Environmentally induced conflicts can trigger migration. This paper analyzes the location decisions of migrants, i.e., the "sorting" of migrants into alternative destinations. We argue that this sorting depends on a variety of factors. The selection of migrants affects preferences over where to...
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answer the question of whether return migration intentions eventually coincided with actual emigration behaviors. We also … results show discrepancies in the predictors of return intentions and actual returns, they show emigration intentions as good … predictors of actual future emigration. Moreover, we find that life satisfaction significantly impacts the individual intention …
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This paper identifies the determinants and patterns of mass migration in Moldova a country in which migration has become the dominant socioeconomic phenomenon in a period of less than 8 years. Special emphasis is placed on seasonal migration, which has become increasingly popular in many Eastern...
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This paper identifies the determinants and patterns of mass migration in Moldova a country in which migration has become the dominant socioeconomic phenomenon in a period of less than 8 years. Special emphasis is placed on seasonal migration, which has become increasingly popular in many Eastern...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003471112
The payoff to schooling among the foreign born in the US is only around one-half of the payoff for the native born. This paper examines whether this differential is related to the quality of the schooling immigrants acquired abroad. The paper uses the Over-education/ Required...
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Outward migration data from the Philippines exhibit spatial clustering. This is likely due to information spillover effects - fellow migrants share information with other neighboring migrants, thereby lowering the costs of migration. To verify this, we use spatial econometrics to define a...
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the initial negative selection process. In addition to this, family characteristics have strong effects on emigration … decisions. Finally, our results highlight substantial variation in outmigration behaviour during the life cycle. -- Emigration …
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