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Parental Impact on Attitude Formation - A Siblings Study on Worries about Immigration
Brenner, Jan - 2007
The existing literature on attitudes towards immigration has not accounted for the potential effect of unobservable … about immigration controlling for unobserved family specific effects.Our results suggest that benchmark models used in the … literature yield inconsistent estimates of the main determinants of attitudes towards immigration. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264694
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The impacts of international migration on remaining household members : omnibus results from a migration lottery program
Gibson, John K.; McKenzie, David J.; Stillman, Steven - 2009
these selectivity issues using the randomization provided by an immigration ballot under the Pacific Access Category (PAC …) of New Zealand's immigration policy. We survey applicants to the 2002-05 PAC ballots in Tonga and compare outcomes for … ballots. The immigration laws determine which household members can accompany the principal migrant, providing an instrument …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003894458
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The Impacts of International Migration on Remaining Household Members : Omnibus Results from a Migration Lottery Program
Gibson, John - 2009
these selectivity issues using the randomization provided by an immigration ballot under the Pacific Access Category (PAC …) of New Zealand's immigration policy. We survey applicants to the 2002-05 PAC ballots in Tonga and compare outcomes for … ballots. The immigration laws determine which household members can accompany the principal migrant, providing an instrument …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013156401
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Economic Migration and Happiness : Comparing Immigrants’ and Natives’ Happiness Gains from Income
Bartram, David - 2012
Research on happiness casts doubt on the notion that increases in income generally bring greater happiness. This finding can be taken to imply that economic migration might fail to result in increased happiness for the migrants: migration as a means of increasing one’s income might be no more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014196105
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International Migration: A Global Complex Network
Tranos, Emmanouil; Gheasi, Masood; Nijkamp, Peter - 2012
Migration has become a prominent research theme in geography and regional science and it has been approached from various methodological angles. Nonetheless, a common missing element in most migration studies is the lack of awareness of the overall network topology, which characterizes migration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326486
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Immigration and economic growth in the OECD countries 1986 - 2006
Boubtane, Ekrame; Dumont, Jean-Christophe; Rault, Christophe - 2015
. However, the growth impact of immigration is small even in countries that have highly selective migration policies. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010533072
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Immigration, search, and redistribution : a quantitative assessment of native welfare
Battisti, Michele; Felbermayr, Gabriel; Peri, Giovanni; … - 2014
We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search … studied, immigration attenuates the effects of search frictions. These gains tend to outweigh the welfare costs of … redistribution. Immigration has increased native welfare in almost all countries. Both high-skilled and low-skilled natives benefit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010418118
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Immigration, search, and redistribution : a quantitative assessment of native welfare
Battisti, Michele; Felbermayr, Gabriel; Peri, Giovanni; … - 2014
We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search … studied, immigration attenuates the effects of search frictions. These gains tend to outweigh the welfare costs of … redistribution. Immigration has increased native welfare in almost all countries. Both high-skilled and low-skilled natives benefit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010418917
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An introduction to the economics of immigration in OECD countries
Edo, Anthony; Ragot, Lionel; Rapoport, Hillel; … - 2020
effects of immigration in those nations. Four broad topics are addressed: labor market issues, fiscal questions, the political … economy of immigration, and productivity/international trade. Extreme concerns about deleterious labour market and fiscal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012295298
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Immigration and economic growth in the OECD countries, 1986 - 2006
Boubtane, Ekrame; Dumont, Jean-Christophe; Rault, Christophe - 2014
This paper offers a reappraisal of the impact of migration on economic growth for 22 OECD countries between 1986-2006 and relies on a unique data set we compiled that allows us to distinguish net migration of the native-born and foreign-born by skill level. Specifically, after introducing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010442327