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effectively correct potential biased estimates caused by zeros in the immigration data, is used for estimation. The results …This study investigates the effect of economic factors on immigration using the gravity model of immigration. Cross … on the type of immigration (the income level of origin country). The gravity model applied to immigration performs …
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Violent conflict is a well-recognised driver of forced migration but literature does not usually consider the pull factors that might also cause irregular movements. In turn, the decision to leave and of where to go are rarely considered separately. This is in contrast to literature on regular...
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This paper investigates to what extent international migration can be explained by climatic variations. A gravity model of migration augmented with average temperature and precipitation in the country of origin is estimated using a panel data set of 142 sending countries for the period 1995 to...
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The 1st of January 2007 marked Romania’s accession to the European Union (EU) and represented its 'ticket' to a free access to the common market. This soon evolved into an important trigger for the increased migration flows from Romania towards the more developed western countries, members of...
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Turkey to 31 destination European countries over the period between 1960 and 2013. Results under alternative estimation …
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administrative districts between 2003 and 2016. Employing different standard panel estimation methods, we show that there is no …
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administrative districts between 2003 and 2016. Employing different standard panel estimation methods, we show that there is no …
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In this paper, we assess the impact of immigration and unemployment for a sample of 15 EU countries between 1997 and … immigration on domestic unemployment in the short and in the long run. In the long run, immigration is found to reduce … unemployment in all peripheral-countries. In core countries, we find no long-run impact of immigration on unemployment due to …
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