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The past several decades have witnessed a rebirth of global labor mobility. Workers have begun to move between countries at rates not seen since before World War One. During the same period, economists' study of international migration has been framed by a particular textbook model of location...
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Using a novel data set, we find that households with migrants experience a 26% drop in the labor force participation rate in four economies (Armenia, Azerbaijan, the Kyrgyz Republic, and Tajikistan) from the Central Asia and South Caucasus region. It is twice as large for households with...
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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 …
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age is estimated on intended emigration rather than on observed outcomes of migration, using individual measures of … intended emigration drawn from a large-scale survey conducted by Gallup. I find evidence that age has a monotonic negative … effect on desired emigration for the working-age population. The estimations point to a very robust effect, suggesting that …
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This paper identifies the determinants and patterns of mass migration in Moldova a country in which migration has become the dominant socioeconomic phenomenon in a period of less than 8 years. Special emphasis is placed on seasonal migration, which has become increasingly popular in many Eastern...
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This paper identifies the determinants and patterns of mass migration in Moldova a country in which migration has become the dominant socioeconomic phenomenon in a period of less than 8 years. Special emphasis is placed on seasonal migration, which has become increasingly popular in many Eastern...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003471112
Does the emigration of skilled individuals necessarily result in losses for source countries due to the brain drain …? Combining industry-level patenting and migration data from 32 European countries, we show that emigration in fact positively …
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Poland is a country being exposed to emigration and immigration flows relatively recently. That, among others, results … strong and sustained growth contributing to Poland's welfare growth and also due to large scale emigration from Poland to EU … structure all existing data and other pieces of information on immigrants coming to Poland from the EU Eastern Partnership …
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) assessing empirically net fiscal position of Ukrainian immigrants in Poland. On the theoretical level we show that there exists … analysis presented. Net fiscal position of Ukrainian immigrants in Poland is unequivocally positive (and more beneficial than …
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Poland. For identification, I use an instrumental variable approach drawing on unique historical data on the forced … resettlement of Ukrainians in Poland after World War II. The results show that the regional inflow of immigrants decreases both … auf lokale Migrationsbewegungen in Polen. Zur Identifizierung der Effekte verwende ich einen Instrumentalvariablenansatz …
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