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Improving health in Tajikistan : remittances trump other income

Kan, Sophia - 2016

This paper investigates the impact of remittances on health outcomes in Tajikistan and finds a positive effect. While existing literature shows that remittances increase health care expenditure, expenditure alone is an incomplete proxy for health outcomes. Moreover, existing literature on health...

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European migration, national origin and long-term economic development in the US

Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés; Berlepsch, Viola von - 2013

determined both the attractiveness of different US counties at the time of migration, as well as current levels of development …. The results indicate that while there is a strong and positive impact associated with overall migration, the national …

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Labour market integration, human capital formation, and mobility

Haupt, Alexander; Übelmesser, Silke - 2014

In this paper, we analyse the implications of labour market integration in a two-region model with local human capital externalities and congestion effects. We show that integration can be a double-edged sword. Integration and the ensuing agglomeration of skilled labour can reduce "real" income...

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Immigration and crime : new empirical evidence from European victimization data

Nunziata, Luca - 2014

We exploit the increase in immigration flows into western European countries that took place in the 2000s to assess whether immigration affects crime victimization and the perception of criminality among European natives. Using data from the European Social Survey, the Labour Force Survey and...

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The impact of refugee crises on host labor markets : the case of the Syrian refugee crisis in Turkey

Akgündüz, Yusuf Emre; Berg, Marcel van den; Hassink, … - 2015

influx in Turkey has affected food and housing prices, employment rates and internal migration patterns in regions of Turkey … limited migration out of the region, but there is a significant decline in internal migration into regions hosting refugees …. Nevertheless, the decline in internal in-migration is less than a tenth of the refugee influx, implying that there is little …

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Labor market integration of migrants: Hidden costs and benefits in two-tier welfare states

König, Jan; Skupnik, Christoph - 2012

We apply a monopoly trade union model and analyze employment, wage and budgetary effects of (i) an inflow of migrant workers and (ii) an increase in the labor market participation rate of migrants. Per assumption, natives and migrants solely differ with respect to the level of benefit claims in...

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Life out of the shadows : impacts of amnesties in the lives of migrants

Ibáñez, Ana María; Moya, Andrés; Ortega, María Adelaida - 2022

This paper examines the effects of a government regularization program offered to half a million Venezuelan refugees in Colombia. For this purpose, 2,232 surveys of refugee families were collected and used to compare refugees who arrived in Colombia around a specified eligibility date in 2018....

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Gesellschaftliche Einstellungen in ländlichen Räumen gegenüber Neuzugewanderten : Befragungsergebnisse und regionale Spezifika : Verbundprojekt "Zukunft für Geflüchtete in ländlich...

Schneider, Hanne; Bürer, Miriam; Glorius, Birgit - 2021

Ländliche Regionen fungieren seit dem deutlichen Anstieg von Geflüchteten im Jahr 2014 häufiger als Orte des Ankommens und Integration. Die Rolle ländlicher Ankunftsgesellschaften bzw. die Ein-stellungen der lokalen Residenzbevölkerung für die Integrationspotenziale stehen allerdings...

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What drives youth's intention to migrate abroad? : evidence from international survey data

Milasi, Santo - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 11 (2020) 1/12, pp. 1-30

's migration behavior at the global level. Using the individual-level survey data from Gallup World Poll across 139 countries over … migration, although budgetary constraints may prevent youth from transforming their migration desires into actual plans in low … turned into more concrete plans. Finally, this study shows that while youth's and adults' migration propensities are often …

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Give me your tired and your poor : impact of a large-scale amnesty program for undocumented refugees

Bahar, Dany; Ibáñez, Ana María; Rozo, Sandra V. - 2020

Between 2014 and 2020 over 1.8 million refugees fled from Venezuela to Colombia as a result of a humanitarian crisis, many of them without a regular migratory status. We study the short- to medium-term labor market impacts in Colombia of the Permiso Temporal de Permanencia program, the largest...

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