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We consider how the possibility of international migration affects an individual’s educational choices in their home … order to increase their chances of obtaining a job in the host country after migration. Thus, all home country students may … choose the non-professional education track. Those who might have otherwise pursued higher, professional education may forgo …
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Personal characteristics of migrants could help to strengthen the impact of migrant networks on bilateral trade. While most of the attention has been focused on immigrants' educational attainment, this paper focuses on the relevance of the tasks carried out by migrants. Our empirical results...
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We introduce the idea that informational cascades can explain the observed regularity that emigrants from the same locations also tend to choose the same foreign locations. Thus informational cascades generate herd behavior. Herd behavior is compared with the network externalities explanation of...
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education and altruistic discrimination differ widely. In Germany, people who have spent less time in education exhibit lower … education levels tend to discriminate against foreigners. The degree of discrimination is insensitive to the educational …
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Statistics Finland. We analyze emigration events lasting at least five years and decompose migrant self-selection into education … positively self-selected in terms of education and earnings. We also find strong evidence of sorting: men who emigrate outside …
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This paper analyzes international high-skilled migration caused by financial frictions in educational market. I develop … migration and the resultant accelerated brain drain increase the incentives of the country government to reduce financial …
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The literature, starting with Chiswick (1977, 1978) to Gang and Zimmermann (2000), more recently, focuses on the economic achievements and performance of first- and secondgeneration migrants. This paper presents a three-generation migrant analysis, comparing relative economic performance of...
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. However, migration also changes relative wages, alters the distribution of skills and affects equality in the receiving …
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In this paper, we analyse the implications of labour market integration in a two-region model with local human capital externalities and congestion effects. We show that integration can be a double-edged sword. Integration and the ensuing agglomeration of skilled labour can reduce "real" income...
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education, gender, age, and political preferences, changing the structure of the origin population. High emigration rates can … therefore have a systematic influence on election results. Using administrative migration and voting data, we show that counties … border and to airports to account for endogenous migration patterns. Results are robust to estimations using first …
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