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Do Emigrants Self-Select Along Cultural Traits? Evidence from the MENA Countries

Docquier, Frédéric; Tansel, Aysit; Turati, Riccardo - 2017

This paper empirically investigates whether emigrants from MENA countries self-select on cultural traits such as religiosity and gender-egalitarian attitudes. To do so, we use Gallup World Poll data on individual opinions and beliefs, migration aspirations, short-run migration plans, and...

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Do Emigrants Self-Select along Cultural Traits? Evidence from the MENA Countries

Docquier, Frédéric; Tansel, Aysit; Turati, Riccardo - 2017

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Who leaves and when? Selective outmigration of immigrants from Germany

Kuhlenkasper, Torben; Steinhardt, Max Friedrich - 2012

This paper provides new evidence on the outmigration behaviour of foreign-born immigrants. Our analysis is based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel covering the period 1984 to 2010. A unique feature of our paper is the use of new data from panel-drop out studies, which allows us to...

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Experimental approaches in migration studies

McKenzie, David; Yang, Dean - 2010

The decision of whether or not to migrate has far-reaching consequences for the lives of individuals and their families. But the very nature of this choice makes identifying the impacts of migration difficult, since it is hard to measure a credible counterfactual of what the person and their...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285434

Who leaves and when? Selective outmigration of immigrants from Germany

Kuhlenkasper, Torben; Steinhardt, Max Friedrich - 2012

The paper provides new evidence on the outmigration of foreign-born immigrants. We make use of data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and employ penalised spline smoothing in the context of a Poisson-type Generalised Additive Mixed Model (GAMM), which enables us to incorporate bivariate...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288710

European immigrants in the UK before and after the 2004 enlargement: Is there a change in immigrant self-selection?

Longhi, Simonetta; Rokicka, Magdalena - 2012

The 2004 accession of Eastern European countries (EU8) to the European Union has generated concerns about the influx of low-skill immigrants to the Western member states (EU15). Only three countries, namely Ireland, Sweden, and the UK, did not impose restrictions to immigration from Eastern...

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Self-selection and the performance of return migrants: The case of Albania

Coulon, Augustin de; Piracha, Matloob - 2002

In this paper, using the framework of a Roy theoretical model, we examine the performance of return migrants in Albania. We ask two questions: (i) Had they chosen not to migrate, what would be the performance of return migrants compared to the non-migrants? and (ii) What would be the performance...

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Can selective immigration policies reduce migrants' quality?

Bertoli, Simone; Dequiedt, Vianney; Zenou, Yves - 2015 - Forthcoming in: Journal of Development Economics, 2015

Destination countries can adopt selective immigration policies to improve migrants' quality. Screening potential migrants on the basis of observable characteristics also influences their self-selection on unobservables. We propose a model that analyzes the effects of selective immigration...

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Self‐selection of emigrants : theory and evidence on stochastic dominance in observable and unobservable characteristics

Borjas, George J.; Kauppinen, Ilpo; Poutvaara, Panu - 2015

. The same conditions that have been shown to result in positive or negative selection in terms of expected earnings also … imply a stochastic dominance relationship between the earnings distributions of migrants and non-migrants. We use the Danish … emigrants in terms of pre-emigration earnings: the income distribution for the migrants almost stochastically dominates the …

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Heaven's swing door : endogenous skills, migration networks and the effectiveness of quality-selective immigration policies

Bertoli, Simone; Rapoport, Hillel - 2013

A growing number of OECD countries are leaning toward adopting quality-selective immigration policies. The underlying assumption behind such policies is that more skill-selection should raise immigrants' average quality (or education level). This view tends to neglect two important dynamic...

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