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How skilled immigration may improve economic equality
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-13
. However, migration also changes relative wages, alters the distribution of skills and affects equality in the receiving …
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Labor market integration of migrants: Hidden costs and benefits in two-tier welfare states
König, Jan; Skupnik, Christoph - 2012
We apply a monopoly trade union model and analyze employment, wage and budgetary effects of (i) an inflow of migrant workers and (ii) an increase in the labor market participation rate of migrants. Per assumption, natives and migrants solely differ with respect to the level of benefit claims in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010308294
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Ethnic identity : a theoretical framework
Epstein, Gil S.; Heizler, Odelia - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-11
We present a basic theoretical framework of ethnic identity, i.e., the level of immigrant's commitment to his or her host society as well as the immigrant's commitment to his or her home society. Our model can explain the emerging empirical literature which studies the effect of the immigrants'...
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Are Immigrants Favorably Self-Selected? An Economic Analysis
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2000
the primary focus is on international migration, reference is made to internal migration and return migration. The … favorable selectivity is more intense the greater the out-of-pocket (direct) costs of migration and return migration, the … greater the effect of the higher level of ability on lowering the costs of migration, and the smaller the relative skill …
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Testing for the Option Value of Migration
Locher, Lilo - 2001
Using uncertainty about the future returns to migration, the option value theory of migration can explain low migration … in the 1990s, we use information on the stage of the application process, migration intentions and ethnicity to construct … close proxies for the option value of postponing migration and for migration costs. The link between the two is shown to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262606
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Are immigrants favorably self-selected? : an economic analysis
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2000
the primary focus is on international migration, reference is made to internal migration and return migration. The … favorable selectivity is more intense the greater the out-of-pocket (direct) costs of migration and return migration, the … greater the effect of the higher level of ability on lowering the costs of migration, and the smaller the relative skill …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325988
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Testing for the option value of migration
Locher, Lilo - 2001
Using uncertainty about the future returns to migration, the option value theory of migration can explain low migration … in the 1990s, we use information on the stage of the application process, migration intentions and ethnicity to construct … close proxies for the option value of postponing migration and for migration costs. The link between the two is shown to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011405562
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Inducing human capital formation: Migration as a substitute for subsidies
Stark, Oded; Wang, Yong - 2001
capital. Yet a strictly positive probability of migration to a richer country, by raising both the level of human capital … migration policy the welfare of all workers is higher than in the absence of this policy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292740
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A theory of migration as a response to occupational stigma
Stark, Oded; Fan, C.Simon - 2010
A theory is developed of labor migration that is prompted by a desire to avoid social humiliation. In a general … equilibrium framework it is shown that as long as migration can reduce humiliation sufficiently, migration will occur even between … two identical economies. Migration increases the number of individuals who choose to perform degrading jobs and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294009
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Migration and Diversity : Human versus Social Capital
Manole, Vlad; Schiff, Maurice - 2004
migrants and natives under both migration and trade. We use a general equilibrium model of migration, human capital and social … natives. Trade and both migration solutions reduce inequality between the populations of the two countries by the same amount …. In addition, trade and migration are not equivalent if social capital is present: the highest welfare is obtained with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262028