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Remittances to Latin America from migrants in the United States : assessing the impact of amnesty programs

Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Mazzolari, Francesca - 2009

the volume of remittances to the Latin American region. This paper studies how a generalized amnesty - a provision in the … country of origin, we estimate substantial post-legalization drops in remittances sent home by Mexican-born migrants who … legalized through IRCA. Given the potential positive impact of remittances on investment levels, entrepreneurship rates and the …

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Remittances to Latin America from Migrants in the United States : Assessing the Impact of Amnesty Programs

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina - 2014

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Are ghettos good or bad? : evidence from US internal migration

Zhang, Junfu; Liang, Zheng - 2014

It is difficult to determine whether ghettos are good or bad, partly because racial segregation may have some effects that are unobservable. To overcome this challenge, we present a migration choice model that allows for estimating the overall effects of racial segregation. The key idea...

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Internal Migration in the United States : A Comprehensive Comparative Assessment of the Consumer Credit Panel

DeWaard, Jack - 2019

We introduce and provide the first comprehensive comparative assessment of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York/Equifax Consumer Credit Panel (CCP) as a valuable and underutilized data set for studying internal migration within the United States. Relative to other data sources on US internal...

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Are Ghettos Good or Bad? Evidence from U.S. Internal Migration

Zhang, Junfu - 2014

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Migration networks and location decisions : evidence from U.S. mass migration

Stuart, Bryan A.; Taylor, Evan J. - 2019

This paper studies how birth town migration networks affected long-run location decisions during historical U.S. migration episodes. We develop a new method to estimate the strength of migration networks for each receiving and sending location. Our estimates imply that when one randomly chosen...

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Microeconometric analyses on economic consequences of selective migration

Ruhose, Jens - 2015

This volume was prepared by Jens Ruhose while he was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes four self-contained chapters that contribute to the understanding of the...

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Remittances as insurance : evidence from Mexican immigrants

Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Pozo, Susan - In: Journal of population economics 19 (2006) 2, pp. 227-254

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Remittance flows and U.S. monetary policy

Machasio, Immaculate; Tillmann, Peter - 2021 - This version: October 27, 2021

. The role of Fed policy for remittances has not yet been studied. We estimate a series of panel local projections for …

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Estimating the determinants of remittances originating from U.S. households using CPS data

Simpson, Nicole B.; Sparber, Chad - 2019

The U.S. is the largest source country of remittances with an outflow of more than $70 billion estimated for 2016 … determinants of remittances originating from the United States for a diverse set of approximately 3,800 households with at least … 0.20-0.30. Remittances are more responsive to earnings in households with more adult women relative to men. …

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