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Crisis Region Western Africa - The cradle of African migration to Europe

Kohnert, Dirk - In: Africa and Fortress Europe - Threats and opportunities, (pp. 37-55). 2007

neglected - economic and socio-cultural effects of the brain drain. Remittances of African migrants contribute considerably not …

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Migration, Human Capital Formation, and Long-Run Output

Galor, Oded; Stark, Oded - In: Migration: A challenge for Europe. Symposium 1993, (pp. 59-68). 1994

Interest in the effects of labor migration on the receiving economy has not produced ample insights regarding its long-run consequences. Important as it may be, the impact on wages and employment, especially on groups whose labor market characteristics are similar to those of migrants, could be...

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Market Environment, Trade Technology, and Migrants' Performance

Stark, Oded - In: Migration: A Challenge for Europe. Symposium 1993, (pp. 45-52). 1994

This paper is motivated by an attempt to account for the empirical finding that quite often migrants outperform the native-born. The underlying idea is that how migrants fare, absolutely and relative to the indigenous population, depends on group attributes ratber than on individual abilities...

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On the Role of Social Comparisons in Shaping Migrants’ Remittance Behavior: Theory, and Evidence from China

Stark, Oded; LaFave, Daniel - In: World Scientific Handbook of Global Migration, Volume …, (pp. 53-82). 2024

We model how the remittances by a migrant are influenced by the remittance behavior of fellow migrants with whom the … migrant compares himself. We show that an increase in the mean remittances of the group of fellow migrants encourages the … migrant to increase his own remittances, and that this response holds only for those who lag behind the group mean. We test …

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Human-Capital Formation, Asymmetric Information, and the Dynamics of International Migration

Chau, Nancy H.; Stark, Oded - In: The Economics of Globalization: Policy Perspectives …, (pp. 333-370). 1999

[Introduction:] Whatever workers may take with them when they migrate, they cannot possibly transfer their home country's information structure. Consequently, foreign-country employers are not as well informed about home-country workers as are home-country employers. Typically, migration runs...

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Is the Feldstein-Horioka Puzzle Really a Puzzle?

Levy, Daniel - In: Aspects of Globalisation: Macroeconomic and Capital …, (pp. 49-66). 2004

Using the framework of a dynamic intertemporal optimization model of an open economy, it is shown that the long-run investment-saving correlation follows directly from the economy’s dynamic budget constraint and this does not depend on the degree of international capital mobility. Therefore,...

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