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Why do legal permanent migrants return to their home countries? How do home country conditions influence this decision … depreciation in the home country currency) leads to a reduced likelihood of return of 0.37 percentage points for migrants. The … reject the theory that migrants are target earners who seek to invest upon return home. …
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and the percentage of migrants employed at a workplace. We find wages are lower in workplaces employing a higher …Using nationally representative workplace data for Britain we identify the partial correlation between workplace wages … percentage of migrants, but only when those migrants are non-EEA migrants. However, the effects are no longer apparent when we …
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who are proficient in the local dialect earn lower wages than those who are not. We also find that workers with better … dialect skills are more likely to settle for lower wages in exchange for social insurance. We hypothesize that they are doing … work. Further tests show that the phenomenon of "exchanging wages for social insurance participation" is more pronounced …
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-contained chapters that contribute to the understanding of the performance of migrants in the host society and the impact of migrants on … decades, it is important to know both how migrants integrate into the destination countries and how immigration affects …. Die Arbeit besteht aus vier eigenständigen Kapiteln, die Erkenntnisse zur Integration von Migranten und den Auswirkungen …
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In some earlier studies, as a response to the media debate during the hot summer of 2006, regarding Romania …’s emigration as following the accession to the EU, we were saying that the fear of mass migration from Romania was not justified …. Romania is not only a gateway for the East-West international migration (like Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece for the South …
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the household nor marital status seem to influence the migrant’s decision of whether to leave seasonally or permanently …. The main group of seasonal migrants are less educated men from rural areas. -- migration decision ; seasonal migration …
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This paper examines ethnicity among highly skilled immigrants to the United States. The paper focuses on five classic components of ethnicity -country of birth, race, skin color, language, and religion - among persons admitted to legal permanent residence in the United States in 2003 in the...
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. The main group of seasonal migrants are less educated men from rural areas. -- Migration decision ; Seasonal migration …
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; there are large benefits from migration in terms of postgraduate education; most high-skilled migrants from poorer countries … knowledge flow from both current and return migrants about job and study opportunities abroad, but little net knowledge sharing … from current migrants to home country governments or businesses. Finally, the fiscal costs vary considerably across …
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This paper explores the existence of network effects in migrants' remittance behavior. In this study, networks are …
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