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cradle of migration from Sub-Saharan Africa to Europe, were most African migrants with overseas destinations live. The … European Union shares dual responsibility for the continuing migration pressure: First, because they fostered over decades … to be felt today, and constitutes one of the underlying factors for politically motivated migration. Secondly, the EU …
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This chapter discusses the research in economics on refugees and asylum seekers. Section 1 describes the trends in asylum seeking by source and host country. Section 2 presents a conceptual framework on why refugees might differ from other types of immigrants, and provides a new analysis...
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equilibria: some countries have mostly temporary migration programs and see a low degree of cultural assimilation by the migrants …This paper examines the role of cultural factors in driving the politics and shape of migration policy. We show that … shortage in the economy. We show that countries that are poor at cultural assimilation are better positioned to take advantage …
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This paper documents assimilation of immigrants in European destinations along cultural, civic, and economic dimensions … assimilation may have multiple facets, and take place at different speed depending on the outcome in question. While assimilation … dimension is not necessarily a handicap, or an impediment, for assimilation on other grounds. Correlation of immigrants …
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Recent European legislation on immigration has revealed a particular paradox on migration policies. On the one hand … relax limits for immigrants in order to control migration inflows better. To this end, we use a real option approach to … migration choice that assumes that the decision to migrate can be described as an irreversible investment decision. In our model …
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Germany has about the same proportion of foreigners in its population as the United States, it is an immigration country. In a way, Germany has let immigration happen, but it did not really have an explicit immigration policy in the past. Now it has to make up its mind on its immigration policy...
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prosperity. In this context, the actors at the municipal level must also become active and shape their own regional migration and … this point is that it is difficult to grasp the actual extent of the problem, as migration movements follow very different … indicator that looks at all these migration movements can be formed by linking the population changes in the various birth …
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Recent European legislation on immigration has revealed a particular paradox on migration policies. On the one hand … relax limits for immigrants in order to control migration inflows better. To this end, we use a real option approach to … migration choice that assumes that the decision to migrate can be described as an irreversible investment decision. In our model …
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, distance, networks, common language and colonial relationships, but also by institutional factors such as migration policy, the … the skill composition of migration. …
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