Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 146,810
Cover Image
Migrants' missing votes
Giesing, Yvonne; Schikora, Felicitas - 2020
Emigrants are less likely to participate in elections in their home country. They are also self-selected in terms of education, gender, age, and political preferences, changing the structure of the origin population. High emigration rates can therefore have a systematic influence on election...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012289012
Cover Image
Immigrants as future voters
Hillman, Arye L.; Long, Ngo Van - 2021
Immigration policies in western democracies have often been contrary to the policies predicted by the mainstream theory … of international economics. In particular, political parties that, according to economic theory, should adopt policies …. We identify a political principal-agent problem based on ego-rents from political office. Our theory predicts voter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012603038
Cover Image
Migration into the welfare state : tax and migration competition
Razin, Asaf - 2013 - Revised, April 10, 2013
In this paper I provide some support to the Tiebout hypothesis. It suggests that when a group of host countries faces an upward supply of immigrants, tax competition does not indeed lead to a race to the bottom; competition may lead to higher taxes than coordination. We identify a fiscal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009742860
Cover Image
Women's rights and the gender migration gap
Gutmann, Jerg; Marchal, Léa; Simsek, Betül - 2023
This is the first global study of how institutionally entrenched gender discrimination affects the gender migration gap (GMG) using data on 158 origin and 37 destination countries over the period 1961-2019. We estimate a gravity equation derived from a random utility maximization model of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013494071
Cover Image
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 in a model of international migration of skilled workers. Acquisition of human capital is driven by the academic and career opportunities at home and abroad. Greater...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010342483
Cover Image
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 in a model of international migration of skilled workers. Acquisition of human capital is driven by the academic and career opportunities at home and abroad. Greater...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010350023
Cover Image
Financial liberalization and remittances : recent longitudinal evidence
Bang, James T.; Mitra, Aniruddha; Wunnava, Phanindra V. - 2013
This paper investigates the impact of financial liberalization on remittances to 84 countries over five-year intervals from 1990-2005 based on the difference-GMM method of Arellano and Bond (1991). We find that various dimensions of financial reform impact remittances differently. Increased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009771737
Cover Image
International migration with heterogeneous agents : theory and evidence
Brücker, Herbert; Schröder, Philipp J. H. - 2007
Zwei verwirrende Fakten der internationalen Wanderung sind, dass nur ein kleiner Teil der Bevölkerung der Auswanderungsländer emigriert und dass die Migrationsquoten mit der Zeit kleiner werden. Der Beitrag untersucht dieses Phänomen unter Zuhilfenahme eines Migrationsmodells mit heterogenen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003873385
Cover Image
Immigration policy and self-selecting migrants
Bianchi, Milo (contributor) - 2006 - Rev. November 2, 2006
utilitarian world. -- Immigrant self-selection ; immigration policy preferences ; political economy of immigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003319760
Cover Image
International migration with heterogeneous agents : theory and evidence
Brücker, Herbert (contributor);  … - 2006
International migration is characterized by two puzzling facts: First, only a small share of the population tends to migrate although substantial and persisting income differences across countries exist. Second, net migration rates tend to cease over time despite persisting income differences....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003376850