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The effects of international migration on the well-being of native populations in Europe
Betz, William; Simpson, Nicole B. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-21
Very little is understood about how immigrants affect the happiness, or subjective well-being of natives. We use the …
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International migration desires related to subjective well-being
Cai, Ruohong; Esipova, Neli; Oppenheimer, Michael; … - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-20
Previous research on the determinants of international migration has largely focused on objective factors, such as income. We instead use subjective well-being (SWB) to explain international migration desires, an expressed willingness to migrate. We find that individuals with higher SWB have...
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In transit : the well-being of migrants from transition and post-transition countries
Nikolova, Milena; Graham, Carol - 2014
The extant literature has focused on migration's consequences for the receiving countries. In this paper, we ask a different but important question: how much do migrants gain from moving to another country? Using Gallup World Poll data and a methodology combining statistical matching with...
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Local-level immigration and life satisfaction : the EU enlargement experience in England and Wales
Ivlevs, Artjoms; Veliziotis, Michail - 2015
The 2004 European Union enlargement resulted in an unprecedented wave of 1.5 million workers relocating from Eastern Europe to the UK. We study how this migrant inflow affected life satisfaction of native residents in England and Wales. Combining the British Household Panel Survey with the Local...
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The long-term impacts of international migration : evidence from a lottery
Gibson, John K.; McKenzie, David J.; Rohorua, Halahingano; … - 2015
We examine the long-term impacts of international migration by comparing immigrants who had successful ballot entries in a migration lottery program, and first moved almost a decade ago, with people who had unsuccessful entries into those same ballots. The long-term gain in income is found to be...
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Migrant well-being after leaving transition economies : evidence is mixed on whether quality of life improves for migrants from post-socialist economies
Nikolova, Milena - 2015
Most comparative research suggests that immigrants from post-socialist countries earn less than natives, work in jobs for which they are overqualified, and may experience unhappiness compared with natives, other immigrants, and non-migrants. In contrast, one study presents causal evidence which...
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Inter-ethnic marriage and partner satisfaction
Sinning, Mathias; Worner, Shane - 2010
This paper investigates immigrant assortative mating and relationship satisfaction. Using a modified random effects ordered probit model, the paper demonstrates that spouses of mixed couples are significantly less satisfied with their partner than nativeonly and foreign-only couples. --...
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Local-Level Immigration and Life Satisfaction : The EU Enlargement Experience in England and Wales
Ivlevs, Artjoms - 2015
The 2004 European Union enlargement resulted in an unprecedented wave of 1.5 million workers relocating from Eastern Europe to the UK. We study how this migrant inflow affected life satisfaction of native residents in England and Wales. Combining the British Household Panel Survey with the Local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013011148
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The Well-Being of Nations : Estimating Welfare from International Migration
Lee, Sanghoon - 2019
The limitations of GDP as a measure of welfare are well known. We propose a new method of estimating the well-being of nations. Using gross bilateral international migration flows and a discrete choice model in which everyone in the world chooses a country in which to live, we estimate each...
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And What About the Family Back Home? International Migration and Happiness
Borraz, Fernando - 2013
examine the impact of migration on the happiness of the family left behind. We use the propensity score matching estimator to … take into account the endogeneity of migration. Our results indicate that migration reduces the happiness of those left … behind. We also find that the monetary inflows (remittances) that accompany migration do not increase happiness levels among …
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