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The role of language in shaping international migration
Adsera, Alicia; Pytlikova, Mariola - 2012
Fluency in (or ease to quickly learn) the language of the destination country plays a key role in the transfer of human … market. This suggests that the ability to learn and speak a foreign language might be an important factor in the migration … countries for the years 1980-2009 and a wide range of linguistic indicators to study the role of language in shaping …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532924
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The role of language in shaping international migration
Adsera, Alicia; Pytlikova, Mariola - 2012
Fluency in (or ease to quickly learn) the language of the destination country plays a key role in the transfer of human … market. This suggests that the ability to learn and speak a foreign language might be an important factor in the migration … countries for the years 1980-2009 and a wide range of linguistic indicators to study the role of language in shaping …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282388
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Language and culture as drivers of migration : linguistic and cultural barriers affect international migration flows
Adserà, Alícia - 2015
migrants arrive. Thus, it is increasingly important to consider what role differences in culture and language play in migration … decisions. Recent work shows that culture and language may explain migration patterns to developed countries even better than … in culture and language may create barriers that prevent the full realization of the potential economic gains from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011432207
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The role of language in shaping international migration
Adsera, Alicia; Pytlikova, Mariola - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2012
Fluency in (or ease to quickly learn) the language of the destination country plays a key role in the transfer of human … market. This suggests that the ability to learn and speak a foreign language might be an important factor in the migration … countries for the years 1980–2009 and a wide range of linguistic indicators to study the role of language in shaping …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009493115
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The Role of Language in Shaping International Migration
Adsera, Alicia; Pytlikova, Mariola - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Fluency in (or ease to quickly learn) the language of the destination country plays a key role in the transfer of human … market. This suggests that the ability to learn and speak a foreign language might be an important factor in the migration … countries for the years 1980–2009 and a wide range of linguistic indicators to study the role of language in shaping …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646312
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The elasticity of the migrant labor supply : evidence from temporary Filipino migrants
Bertoli, Simone; Moraga, Jesús Fernández-Huertas; … - 2016
The effect of immigration on host and origin countries is mediated by the way migrants take their labor supply decisions. We propose a simple way of integrating the traditional random utility maximization model used to analyze location decisions with a classical labor demand function at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011500618
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On the economic geography of international migration
Özden, Çağlar; Parsons, Christopher R. - 2014
We exploit the bilateral and skill dimensions from recent data sets of international migration to test for the existence of Zipf's and Gibrat's Laws in the context of aggregate and high-skilled international immigration and emigration using graphical, parametric and non-parametric analysis. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010463427
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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 ignore movements to and between developing countries. This paper presents, for the first time, a global overview of human capital mobility through bilateral migration stocks by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010463429
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Potential mobility from Africa, Middle East and EU neighbouring countries to Europe
Mara, Isilda; Landesmann, Michael; Grieveson, Richard - 2021
Migration from Africa and the Middle East to the EU has intensified over the last two decades. Relative differences between developed EU and less developed African and Middle East countries have not declined that much and continue to drive mobility. Also, demographic trends show a strong...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012544920
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Population aging and migration
Poutvaara, Panu - 2021
International migration flows largely reflect demographic patterns and economic opportunities. Migration flows increase in expected income and other pull factors in potential destinations, and in push factors in the origin, like high unemployment, low wages, and high population growth. Migration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012519097