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labor when they move to the U.S. (iii) Migration reduces inequality, more significantly if the immigration policy is the … more in human capital than the U.S. natives. (v) The earnings ratio immigrants to the U.S. natives is lower under the quota …
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in their effective hours of labor when they move to the United States; (iii) migration reduces inequality, more …) the offspring of the immigrants invest more in human capital than the United States natives; (v) the earnings ratio …
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In this paper, using the framework of a Roy theoretical model, we examine the performance of return migrants in Albania. We ask two main 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...
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migration decision (based on observed and unobserved characteristics). This study finds that the productivity differential is …Based on the affirmation that internal migration in Chile has become increasingly less important as an equalizing … the leading factor explaining migration. However, migration not only depends on individual characteristics, but strongly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011100189
view tends to neglect two important dynamic effects: the role of migration networks, which could reduce immigrants' quality …, and the responsiveness of education decisions to the prospects of migration. Our model shows that migration networks and … immigration policies, the initial pattern of migrants' self-selection on education, and the way time-equivalent migration costs by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010895132
view tends to neglect two important dynamic effects: the role of migration networks, which could reduce immigrants’ quality …, and the responsiveness of education decisions to the prospects of migration. Our model shows that migration networks and … immigration policies, the initial pattern of migrants’ self-selection on education, and the way time-equivalent migration costs by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010904609
Since the inequality of earnings in East Germany has approached West German levels in the late 1990s, the standard Roy … differentials as well as differences in employment opportunities are the central forces which drive East-West migration after …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261759
Since the inequality of earnings in East Germany has approached West German levels in the late 1990s, the standard Roy … differentials as well as differences in employment opportunities are the central forces which drive East-West migration after …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270921
view tends to neglect two important dynamic effects: the role of migration networks, which could reduce immigrants' quality …, and the responsiveness of education decisions to the prospects of migration. Our model shows that migration networks and … immigration policies, the initial pattern of migrants' self-selection on education, and the way time-equivalent migration costs by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329124
migration decision (based on observed and unobserved characteristics). This study finds that the productivity differential is …Based on the affirmation that internal migration in Chile has become increasingly less important as an equalizing … the leading factor explaining migration. However, migration not only depends on individual characteristics, but strongly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332691