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Human Capital Investment under Exit Options: Evidence from a Natural Quasi-Experiment

Chand, Satish; Clemens, Michael A. - 2019

Theory suggests that groups historically subject to discrimination, such as Jews, could exhibit traditionally high investment in education because discrimination spurred exit facilitated by human capital. Theory moreover suggests that if exit is uncertain, it could induce investment in skill...

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The long-term effect of migration on economic inequality between EU Member States

Ulceluse, Magdalena - 2019

significant effect on development and economic growth in 28 member states. However, the findings also indicate that some countries … migration has indeed contributed to economic development in all member states over the period analysed, it has not necessarily …

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Migration and Macroeconomic Performance in New Zealand: Theory and Evidence

Fry, Julie - 2014

New Zealand immigration policy settings are based on the assumption that the macroeconomic impacts of immigration may be significantly positive, with at worst small negative effects. However, both large positive and large negative effects are possible. Reviewing the literature, the balance of...

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Migration, transfers and child labor

Dimova, Ralitza; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2011

We examine agricultural child labor in the context of emigration, transfers, and the ability to hire outside labor. We … the hypothesis that both emigration and remittances reduce child labor. …

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Emigration and wages: The EU enlargement experiment

Elsner, Benjamin - 2011

This paper studies the impact of a large emigration wave on real wages in the source country. Following EU enlargement … Lithuania for the calibration of a factor demand model I show that emigration had a significant short-run impact on real wages … in the source country. In particular, emigration led to a change in the wage distribution between young and old workers …

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Migration, transfers and child labor

Dimova, Ralitza; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2015

We examine agricultural child labor in the context of emigration, transfers, and the ability to hire outside labor. We … the hypothesis that both emigration and remittances reduce child labor. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011460733

Migration on the Rise, a Paradigm in Decline: The Last Half-Century of Global Mobility

Clemens, Michael A. - 2022

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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Emigration Intentions and Risk Aversion: Causal Evidence from Albania

Beine, Michel; Charness, Gary; Dupuy, Arnaud - 2021

Estimating the impact of risk aversion on emigration at the individual level is complicated by selection issues. In … capture a (negative) relationship between risk aversion and emigration intention, a Control Function strategy using the two …

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Does emigration increase the wages of non-emigrants in sending countries

Elsner, Benjamin - In: IZA World of Labor (2022)

emigration increases wages in the sending country but only for non-emigrants with substitutable skills similar to those of …

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Do cash transfers deter migration?

Clemens, Michael A. - 2022

Conditional Cash Transfers are increasingly used by development aid agencies to reduce the incentives for migration …

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