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Economic discrimination and cultural differences as barriers to migrant integration: Is reverse causality symmetric?
Kohler, Pierre - 2012
This paper examines the endogenous relationship between the economic and cultural integration of migrants in … Switzerland or, more precisely, how economic and cultural barriers to integration reinforce each other. Are cultural differences … preventing the successful integration of migrants or does the root of integration failures lie in unequal economic opportunities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316755
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Economic Discrimination and Cultural Differences as Barriers to Migrant Integration: Is Reverse Causality Symmetric?
Kohler, Pierre - International Economics Section, The Graduate Institute … - 2012
This paper examines the endogenous relationship between the economic and cultural integration of migrants in … Switzerland or, more precisely, how economic and cultural barriers to integration reinforce each other. Are cultural differences … preventing the successful integration of migrants or does the root of integration failures lie in unequal economic opportunities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010543532
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The evaluation of immigration policies
Rinne, Ulf - 2012
literature dealing with the evaluation of labor market programs and with the economic integration of immigrants. Next to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282269
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The Evaluation of Immigration Policies
Rinne, Ulf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
literature dealing with the evaluation of labor market programs and with the economic integration of immigrants. Next to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652097
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International Migration, Ethnicity and Economic Inequality
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
While the allocative efficiency of mobility is typically considered to be positive but small in the long run, the induced changes in equality may be considerable in size. In practice, however, migrants typically improve their income position in comparison to those at home, stimulate the economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566767
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The Impact of Social Systems and their Coordination on Economic Migration
Tepperová, Jana; Klazar, Stanislav - In: Politická ekonomie 2012 (2012) 4, pp. 505-522
The existing empirical studies examined the impact of different variables, such as common language, economic, cultural and geographical factors, on migration. However, none of the studies deals with the social security systems including their coordination as a relevant explanatory factor. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011195267
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The emigration life cycle: how development shapes emigration from poor countries
Clemens, Michael A. - 2020
Many governments seek to reduce emigration from low-income countries by encouraging economic development there. A large … literature, however, observes that average emigration rates are higher in countries with sustained increases in GDP per capita … than in either chronically poor countries or established rich countries. This suggests an emigration life cycle in which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269072
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Where do migrants from countries ridden by environmental conflict settle? : On the scale, selection and sorting of conflict-induced migration
Krieger, Tim; Renner, Laura; Schmid, Lena - 2019
Environmentally induced conflicts can trigger migration. This paper analyzes the location decisions of migrants, i.e., the "sorting" of migrants into alternative destinations. We argue that this sorting depends on a variety of factors. The selection of migrants affects preferences over where to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012053203
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Chapter 66. International Migration and the Developing World
Hanson, Gordon H. - In: Handbook of development economics : volume 5, (pp. 4363-4414). 2010
consequences of emigration from developing countries and the motivations behind the restrictions imposed by the developed countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025736
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Goodbye Germany - und dann? : erste Ergebnisse einer Pilotstudie zur Befragung von Auswanderern aus Deutschland
Erlinghagen, Marcel; Stegmann, Tim - 2009
on emigration flows from Germany and the factors motivating people to emigrate. In particular, there is an almost total … that the German emigration research is currently based mainly on aggregated emigration data from official statistical … after the point of emigration creates new possibilities for empirical life-course research, which in turn - from an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011635172