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currently live in Mexico. To calculate the selection patterns, we non parametrically estimate the counterfactual wages that the … that the selection patterns change over time toward negative selection. For example, in 1990, the wages that the male … return migrants would have experienced had they not migrated was 6 percent larger than the wages of male non migrants …
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1976. I find that regional wages decline between 1962 and 1968, before returning to their pre-shock level 15 years after …. While regional wages recovered, this particular supply shock had persistent distributional effects. By increasing the …
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The paper exploits a recent survey of over ten thousand economically active residents of Latvia; about 5% of respondents have worked abroad over the last three years, while 12% have family members with such experience. Post-enlargement labor migration from Latvia has been predominantly...
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profiles. Our study also explains the willingness of immigrants to accept jobs at wages that seem unacceptable to natives …
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profiles. Our study also explains the willingness of immigrants to accept jobs at wages that seem unacceptable to natives …
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This paper examines the situation of a subgroup of non-citizens found in virtually all contemporary states, what I call “precarious residents”. Precarious residents can be defined as non-citizens living in the state that possess few social, political or economic rights, are highly vulnerable...
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A government seeks to minimise the maximum expected utility of migrants and smugglers, but has to do this under constraints. It is argued that a vote maximising government should choose policies based on the relative weight of the introduced lobby utility function, which acts as a constraint....
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State border corruption is still a problem for Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova. In a theoretical model, it is shown how a border guard authority should optimally allocate budgetary resources to oblasts in presence of corruption, so as to minimise the general average number of illegal migrants.
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This study finds that ID theft rates tend to be an increasing function of the unemployment rate and the proportion of the population concentrated in urban areas, and a decreasing function of the relative amount of resources devoted to laws enforcement and the percentage of individuals who claim...
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probability, wages, and job quality compared to British natives, to earlier immigrants, and to people in the country of origin. …
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