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Integration as a catalyst for assimilation

Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin - 2013

We draw a distinction between the social integration and economic assimilation of migrants, and study an interaction … between the two. We define social integration as blending into the host countryś society, and economic assimilation as … income gap with the natives. In this way, social integration becomes a catalyst for economic assimilation. …

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An Econometric Analysis of Remittances-Growth : A Macroeconomic Study in Developing Country

Yilmaz, Binhan Elif - 2021

The importance of the flow of workers’ remittances in the economies of developing countries during the last few decades or so cannot be ignored at the face changing global order where most of the economies in the world are transforming themselves to the call of globalization and transmuting...

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Unemployment Benefits, Risk Aversion, and Migration Incentives

Heitmüller, Axel - 2002

With reference to the EU enlargement, a framework is derived which allows the study of the effect of unemployment benefits on the migration decision. While benefits simply increase the expected gain for risk neutral individuals, they work as an insurance device for risk averse migrants; the...

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Coordination Failures in Network Migration

Heitmüller, Axel - 2003

Previous migration facilitates future population moves, a phenomenon called network migration. However, thus far, network migration has been closely linked to network externalities. In contrast, this paper argues that the incumbent migration population can actively impact on future migration...

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Unemployment benefits, risk aversion, and migration incentives

Heitmueller, Axel - 2002

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Spatial sorting : conference paper

Eeckhout, Jan; Pinheiro, Roberto; Schmidheiny, Kurt - 2013

We investigate the role of complementarities in production and skill mobility across cities. We propose a general equilibrium model of location choice by heterogeneously skilled workers, and consider different degrees of complementarities between the skills of workers. The nature of the...

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Foot Voting, Decentralization, and Development

Somin, Ilya - 2019

We can enhance development by making it easier for people to “vote with their feet” between jurisdictions. Few, if any, policy reforms can achieve such enormous increases in economic growth and opportunity. Foot voting is, in several crucial respects, a better mechanism of political...

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Migrants' Savings, Purchasing Power Parity, and the Optimal Duration of Migration

Stark, Oded; Helmenstein, Christian; Yegorov, Yury - 1997

If some of the returns to migration accrue from return migration, the optimal duration of migration may be shorter than the feasible duration of migration. We develop a model that provides and highlights conditions under which return migration takes place even though a reversal of the inter-...

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Liberalized Immigration as Free Trade : Economic Welfare and the Optimal Immigration Policy

Chang, Howard F. - 1998

This paper describes the immigration policy that would maximize the welfare of natives. Trade principles indicate that the United States should eliminate its immigration quotas and other non-tariff protectionist barriers and use immigration tariffs instead

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Coordination Failures in Network Migration

Heitmueller, Axel - 2021

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