Similar Search Results

Do Birds of a Feather Flock Together? Immigration Flows and Cultural Clustering in Host Countries.

Gross, D.; Schmitt, N. - 2000

This paper presents a simple theoretical framework in which immigrants have a relative incentive to cluster in host countries where cultural characteristics and imperfect information sustain the segmentation of the labor market and a higher wage in foreign communities. The hypothesis is tested...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005663938

The Place Premium: Wage Differences for Identical Workers across the U.S. Border

Clemens, Michael; Montenegro, Claudio; Pritchett, Lant - 2008

We compare the wages of workers inside the United States to the wages of observably identical workers outside the United States—controlling for country of birth, country of education, years of education, work experience, sex, and ruralurban residence. This is made possible by new and uniquely...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005200929

Does development reduce migration?

Clemens, Michael A. - 2014

The most basic economic theory suggests that rising incomes in developing countries will deter emigration from those countries, an idea that captivates policymakers in international aid and trade diplomacy. A lengthy literature and recent data suggest something quite different: that over the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010423766

Impact of migration upon a receiving country's economic development

Manole, Sorin; Pănoiu, Laura; Păunescu, Adriana - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 19 (2017) 46, pp. 670-681

also an adequate distribution of income is influenced by many factors, including migration. This paper aims at highlighting … the effects of migration upon the economic development of EU Member State receiving countries, starting from economic and … social facts indicating a migration phenomenon that is ever increasing. In this regard, it has been thought appropriate to …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011793456

The emigration life cycle: how development shapes emigration from poor countries

Clemens, Michael A. - 2020

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269072

Skill-biased technological change, unemployment and brain drain

Fadinger, Harald; Mayr, Karin - 2012

We develop a model of directed technological change, frictional unemployment and migration to examine the effects of a …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011374349

Diaspora externalities

Rapoport, Hillel - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 10 (2019) 2/5, pp. 1-26

This review article surveys the recent economic literature on diaspora networks, globalization, and development. Diasporas are shown to contribute to the economic and cultural integration of source (i.e., developing) countries into the global economy. I first review the effect of diaspora...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012064002

A global assessment of human capital mobility : the role of non-OECD destinations

Artuc, Erhan; Docquier, Frédéric; Özden, Çağlar; … - 2014

Discussions of high-skilled mobility typically evoke migration patterns from poorer to wealthier countries, which … capital mobility through bilateral migration stocks by gender and education in 1990 and 2000, and calculation of nuanced brain …-gravity model, then identifies key determinants of international migration, and subsequently uses estimated parameters to impute …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010463429

Beneficial brain drain and non-migrants' welfare

Schiff, Maurice W. - 2018

Though a net brain gain has tended to be seen as a benefit and referred to as a 'beneficial brain drain' in the literature, its welfare impact for source country residents - or non-migrants - is at best ambiguous. Increased educational investment in response to a brain drain is equivalent to a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011849103

Diaspora externalities : a view from the South

Rapoport, Hillel - 2018

Migration decisions affect those left-behind in ways that are partly taken into account by market forces (e.g., wage … the diaspora, investigating on a macro-level the role of migration in cultural convergence across countries and on a micro …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011806518