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Migration and trade : a complex-network approach
Fagiolo, Giorgio; Mastrorillo, Marina - 2013
This paper explores the relationships between migration and trade using a complex-network approach. We show that: (i) both weighted and binary versions of the networks of international migration and trade are strongly correlated; (ii) such correlations can be mostly explained by country...
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On the determinants of global bilateral migration flows
Crespo Cuaresma, Jesús; Moser, Mathias; Raggl, Anna - 2013
We present a method aimed at estimating global bilateral migration flows and assessing their determinants. We employ that fact that available net migration figures for a country are (nonlinear) aggregates of migration flows from and to all other countries of the world in order to construct a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010432434
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International migration of skilled workers with endogenous policies
Djajić, Slobodan; Michael, Michael S. - 2014
We study the interaction between the optimal immigration policy of a host country and education policy of a source … source country, and attitudes to immigration in the host country. Of key interest are the implications for the optimal … spending on education in the source country and the optimal immigration quota of the host country. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010350023
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International migration of skilled workers with endogenous policies
Djajić, Slobodan; Michael, Michael S. - 2014
We study the interaction between the optimal immigration policy of a host country and education policy of a source … country, and attitudes to immigration in the host country. Of key interest are the implications for the optimal spending on … education in the source country and the optimal immigration quota of the host country. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010342483
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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
society. The paper suggests that skilled immigration promotes economic equality in advanced economies under standard …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010361361
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Labour mobility and interprovincial trade in Canada
Aziz, Nusrate; Mahar, Gerry - 2019
and significant determinants for interprovincial trade of Canada. Interprovincial immigration is more influential than … international immigration in explaining interprovincial trade. Interprovincial imports are influenced more by interprovincial and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012160050
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International trade and migrant networks : is It really about qualifications?
Martín Montaner, Joan A.; Requena Silvente, Francisco; … - In: Estudios de economía 41 (2014) 2, pp. 251-260
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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International trade effects of student migration
Specht, Lena Susanne - 2022
The conventional immigration and trade literature regards immigrants as mediators for informal barriers such as … find that overall immigration contributes to trade and international students particularly increase their host countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013164325
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Rational inattention and migration decisions
Bertoli, Simone; Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Jesús; … - 2020
Acquiring information about destinations can be costly for migrants. We model information frictions in the rational inattention framework and obtain a closed-form expression for a migration gravity equation that we bring to the data. The model predicts that ows from countries with a higher cost...
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Managing migration through conflicting policies : an option-theory perspective
Moretto, Michele; Vergalli, Sergio - 2009
Recent European legislation on immigration has revealed a particular paradox on migration policies. On the one hand … controls the information related to the immigration stock it could delay the mass entry of immigrants, maintaining the required … stock in the long run and controlling the flows in the short-run. -- immigration ; real option …
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