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Constant, Amelie (contributor); D'Agosto, Elena (contributor) - 2008

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Constant, Amelie (contributor); D'Agosto, Elena (contributor) - 2008

researchers who have at least a bachelor's from Italy and live abroad. There are three alternative country choices: the US …/Canada, the UK, and other EU countries. On average, the brainy Italians exhibit a higher predicted probability to go to the US …. Ceteris paribus, both push and pull factors are important. While having a Ph.D. from outside Italy predicts the UK choice …

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The economic effects of immigration restriction policies : evidence from the Italian mass migration to the US

Coluccia, Davide M.; Spadavecchia, Lorenzo - 2021

This article studies the impact of immigration restriction policies on technology adoption in sending countries. From 1920 to 1921, the number of Italian immigrants to the United States dropped by 85% after Congress passed the Emergency Quota Act, a severely restrictive immigration law. In a...

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Migration from developing countries: selection, income elasticity, and Simpson's paradox

Clemens, Michael A.; Mendola, Mariapia - 2020

How does immigration affect incomes in the countries migrants go to, and how do rising incomes shape emigration from the countries they leave? The answers depend on whether people who migrate have higher or lower productivity than people who do not migrate. Theory on this subject has long...

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The determinants of international migration in early modern Europe : evidence from the maritime sector, c. 1700-1800

Klein, Alexander; Van Lottum, Jelle - 2017

This paper offers the first multivariate regression study of international migration in early modern Europe. Using unique eighteenth-century data about maritime workers, we created a data set of migration flows among European countries to examine the role of factors related to geography,...

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International migration and development : institutional consequences of global mobility for sending and receiving countries between 1970 and 2010

Bashko, Aliaksei - 2018

There is now a broad consensus of economists, political scientists, sociologists and scientists in other fields on a wide range of benefits that international migration brings to global development. Main aim of the paper is to provide an analysis of economic and developmental impacts of...

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