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The role of family members in host countries, who may encourage prospective migrants through remittances and information. Migrants proactively seek information from broader networks and are exposed to information through mass media, word of mouth and social media. Technology has changed the ways...
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The purpose of this study is to present in a complete way the kernel of such a production. People migrate and this decision is sometimes permanent, but there are links with the country of origin that stand up to time and distances. With respect to this, the so called economic diaspora well...
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Kinship, religious and other social networks play a key role in the decision to migrate, and in determining migration journeys and return. This includes the role of family members in host countries, who may encourage prospective migrants through remittances and information. Migrants proactively...
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market policies, in particular unemployment benefits, the tax wedge and the minimum wage. In addition, immigrants are shown …This working paper assesses the ease of immigrants' integration in OECD labour markets by estimating how an immigration … characteristics. Applying the same methodology to comparable data across twelve OECD countries, immigrants are shown to significantly …
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We aim to identify winners and losers of a sudden inflow of low-skilled immigrants using a general equilibrium search …
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existing low-skilled immigrants to the labor market counteract the effect that is triggered by an increase in low …
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and non-random hiring. Since they accept lower wages, firms obtain a higher match surplus from hiring immigrants rather … firms. Using US data, I show in my empirical analysis that among low-skilled workers undocumented immigrants earn 8% less … and have a 7 pp higher job finding rate than documented immigrants. Parameterizing the model based on these estimates, I …
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being entrapped in flexible contracts and/or going to and turning back from unemployment, without any form of public …
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This paper provides a nascent look at the application as well as the advantages of the hierarchical regression model in studying migration decision making. The aim of this study is to examine economic migrants’ decision to migrate, focusing specifically on potential migrants who can choose if...
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Based on the current European discussion about immigration policy, this paper gives an overview of central economic consequences of immigration for a host country=s labor market. The most important theoretical arguments are presented and evaluated against the available empirical evidence. The...
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