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Outward migration data from the Philippines exhibit spatial clustering. This is likely due to information spillover effects-fellow migrants share information with other neighboring migrants, thereby lowering the costs of migration. To verify this, we use spatial econometrics to define a...
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Migration is an important and yet neglected determinant of institutions. The paper documents the channels through which emigration affects home country institutions and considers dynamic-panel regressions for a large sample of developing countries. We find that emigration and human capital both...
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This paper is inspired by a puzzling empirical fact that despite the importance of controlling migration for their future, the host countries allocate very limited amounts of resources to the struggle against illegal immigration. The present model analyzes this issue in the context of low...
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Thema Auswanderung und Leben im Ausland befragt. Zwar haben viele Deutsche schon einmal ernsthaft über einen Umzug ins …
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Auswanderung ist überzogen schrill, denn die meisten Auswanderer haben bereits einen Migrationshintergrund und setzen ihre … ausgewanderten Teilnehmern der Wiederholungsbefragung Sozio-oekonomisches Panel (SOEP) zeigt zudem, dass Auswanderung zwar wie … mit Auswanderung verbundenen Hoffnungen und Träume gehen auch heutzutage - wie seit Jahrhunderten - keineswegs immer in …
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In der Diskussion um die Integration von Zuwanderern in Deutschland wird vielfach übersehen, dass Deutschland nicht nur ein Einwanderungsland, sondern in stärkerem Maße auch ein Auswanderungsland ist. Das gilt vor allem für die Deutschen selbst. So hat der Anteil der Deutschen an allen...
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Democratic transitions since 2011 in the Middle East and North Africa have mostly failed to consolidate and have been hindered by the difficult economic heritage of previous authoritarian governments. Which short-term economic policies may help consolidate the early democratisation process?
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Because their departures are difficultly observed, little is known about the performance of immigrants who leave a region and move to another. This paper shows conditions under which the (conditional) outmigration probability, work probability and the expected earnings of outmigrants are...
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