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Diasporas and economic development : a review of the evidence and policy
Bahar, Dany - 2020
The paper reviews recent literature on the economics of migration and diasporas, focusing on economic gains and opportunities that these diasporas could represent for home countries. In addition, the paper discusses policies aimed at leveraging this "diaspora capital".
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012165988
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The Role of Income and Immigration Policies in Attracting International Migrants
Ortega, Francesc - 2012
destinations developed by Grogger and Hanson (2011) by allowing for unobserved individual heterogeneity between migrants and non-migrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104662
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Networks and selection in international migration to Spain
Neubecker, Nina; Smolka, Marcel; Steinbacher, Anne - 2012
This paper analyzes the role of ethnic communities in shaping the recent immigration boom to Spain. We find that ethnic communities exerted a strong positive effect on the scale and a strong negative effect on the skill structure of this immigration. Unlike previous studies, we explicitly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009751308
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The determination of a migration wave using ethnicity and community ties
Locher, Lilo - 2001
If people come to live in a country different from their nation state, due to border shifts, expulsion, or migration, they adopt some of the new country's habits after some time. This paper investigates their (return) migration decision when they have been restricted to live in the foreign...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403330
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The determination of a migration wave using ethnicity and community ties
Locher, Lilo - 2001
If people come to live in a country different from their nation state, due to border shifts, expulsion, or migration, they adopt some of the new country's habits after some time. This paper investigates their (return) migration decision when they have been restricted to live in the foreign...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001630249
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The Determination of a Migration Wave Using Ethnicity and Community Ties
Locher, Lilo - 2021
If people come to live in a country different from their nation state, due to border shifts, expulsion, or migration, they adopt some of the new country's habits after some time. This paper investigates their (return) migration decision when they have been restricted to live in the foreign...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320834
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Temporary migration, transformation and development : evidence from Europe and Asia
Pitkänen, Pirkko; Hayakawa, Tomoko; Schmidt, Kerstin; … - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011993755
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The (self-)selection of international migrants reconsidered : theory and new evidence
Brücker, Herbert (contributor);  … - 2006
This paper reconsiders the (self-)selection of international migrants. In an extended Roy-model we analyse the factors … which affect the selection bias of migrants. In particular, we find that migrants need not necessarily be (un …. Moreover, migrants might be favourably (self-)selected if the migration costs tend to decline with the skill level of migrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003301667
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Transnationale Migration : Interpretationsansätze und das Beispiel der Wanderungsbewegungen zwischen Mexiko und den USA
Gabbert, Wolfgang - In: Lateinamerika-Analysen 11 (2005), pp. [3]-31
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003204442
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Deutschland - ein Einwanderungsland? : Rückblick, Bilanz und neue Fragen
Currle, Edda (ed.); Wunderlich, Tanja (contributor);  … - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011648149