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International migration and local employment: analysis of self-selection and earnings in Tajikistan
Atamanov, Aziz; Berg, Marrit van den - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011
agricultural employment in Tajikistan and its link to earnings from these activities. Unlike most empirical studies, we could … analyse its impact on earnings abroad and at home. We have found positive selection in migration against local non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712064
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International Migration and Local Employment : Analysis of Self-Selection and Earnings in Tajikistan
Atamanov, Aziz - 2011
agricultural employment in Tajikistan and its link to earnings from these activities. Unlike most of empirical studies, we could … analyse its impact on earnings abroad and at home. We have found positive selection in migration against local non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013126119
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Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Abilities of Immigrants : New Perspectives on Migrant Quality from a Selective Immigration Country
Naghsh Nejad, Maryam - 2019
Economic theory suggests that selective immigration policies based on observable characteristics will affect unobservable migrant quality. Little empirical evidence exists on this hypothesis. We quantify traditionally unobservable components of migrant quality in Australia, a high-migrant share...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012860506
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Crossing the border: Self-selection, earnings and individual migration decisions
Bertoli, Simone; Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Jesús; … - 2010
individual earnings and use them to estimate a discrete-choice migration equation that allows for correlated errors across … destinations and a rich structure of migration costs. We find that earnings significantly shape individual migration decisions …, even in an episode in which Ecuadorians mostly chose Spain where earnings were lower than in the US, and they contribute to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269810
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Crossing the Border: Self-selection, Earnings and Individual Migration Decisions
Bertoli, Simone; Moraga, Jesus Fernandez-Huertas; … - 2010
individual earnings and use them to estimate a discrete-choice migration equation that allows for correlated errors across … destinations and a rich structure of migration costs. We find that earnings significantly shape individual migration decisions …, even in an episode in which Ecuadorians mostly chose Spain where earnings were lower than in the US, and they contribute to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532818
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Crossing the Border: Self-selection, Earnings and Individual Migration Decisions
Bertoli, Simone; Ortega, Francesc; Moraga, Jesus … - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2010
individual earnings and use them to estimate a discrete-choice migration equation that allows for correlated errors across … destinations and a rich structure of migration costs. We find that earnings significantly shape individual migration decisions …, even in an episode in which Ecuadorians mostly chose Spain where earnings were lower than in the US, and they contribute to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009317957
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Crossing the Border: Self-Selection, Earnings and Individual Migration Decisions
Bertoli, Simone; Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Jesús; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
individual earnings and use them to estimate a discrete-choice migration equation that allows for correlated errors across … destinations and a rich structure of migration costs. We find that earnings significantly shape individual migration decisions …, even in an episode in which Ecuadorians mostly chose Spain where earnings were lower than in the US, and they contribute to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008568274
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Crossing the border: Self-selection, earnings and individual migration decisions
Bertoli, S.; Fernández-Huertas Moraga, J.; Ortega, F. - In: Journal of Development Economics 101 (2013) C, pp. 75-91
. Specifically, we produce selection-corrected predictions of counterfactual individual earnings and use them to estimate a discrete … earnings significantly shape individual migration decisions, even in an episode in which Ecuadorians mostly chose Spain where … earnings were lower than in the US, and they contribute to explaining the observed composition of migration flows. Moreover …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011065935
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Refugees' and irregular migrants' self-selection into Europe : who migrates where?
Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Poutvaara, Panu - 2020
We analyze self-selection of refugees and irregular migrants and test our theory in the context of the European refugee crisis. Using unique datasets from the International Organization for Migration and Gallup World Polls, we provide the first large-scale evidence on reasons to emigrate, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161688
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Refugees' and Irregular Migrants' Self-Selection into Europe: Who Migrates Where?
Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Poutvaara, Panu - 2019
We analyze self-selection of refugees and irregular migrants and test our theory in the context of the European refugee crisis. Using unique datasets from the International Organization for Migration and Gallup World Polls, we provide the first large-scale evidence on reasons to emigrate, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179993