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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...

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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...

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Population aging and migration

Poutvaara, Panu - 2021

was consistently a continent of emigration. Europe went through a major reversal from a continent of emigration until 1950 … fertility rate and emigration rate are going to develop in Africa. Even modest increases in emigration from Africa would … generate major increases in immigration pressure in the rest of the world, mostly in Europe. Other major questions on the …

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Information, intermediaries, and international migration

Bazzi, Samuel; Cameron, Lisa Ann; Schaner, Simone; … - 2021

Job seekers often face substantial information frictions related to potential job quality. This is especially true in international labor markets, where intermediaries match prospective migrants with employers abroad. We conducted a randomized trial in Indonesia to explore how information about...

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Diaspora externalities

Rapoport, Hillel - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 10 (2019) 2/5, pp. 1-26

This review article surveys the recent economic literature on diaspora networks, globalization, and development. Diasporas are shown to contribute to the economic and cultural integration of source (i.e., developing) countries into the global economy. I first review the effect of diaspora...

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Migration from developing countries: selection, income elasticity, and Simpson's paradox

Clemens, Michael A.; Mendola, Mariapia - 2020

How does immigration affect incomes in the countries migrants go to, and how do rising incomes shape emigration from the countries they leave? The answers depend on whether people who migrate have higher or lower productivity than people who do not migrate. Theory on this subject has long...

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Social remittances

Tuccio, Michele; Wahba, Jackline - 2020

This article reviews the economic literature on social remittances. Unlike financial remittances, which are flows of cash or goods sent by migrants to their origin countries, social remittances refer to economic, social, political attitudes, behaviours and norms that are transmitted through...

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International migration and institutional quality in the home country : it matters where you go and how long you stay!

Tran, Ngoc Thi Minh; Cameron, Michael; Poot, Jacques - 2017

International migrants are widely recognised as agents of institutional change in their home countries. However, the huge growth in temporary migration in recent years demands a fresh investigation of this phenomenon. Theoretically, a country's diaspora constitutes one of the four principal...

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International emigrant selection on occupational skills

Patt, Alexander; Ruhose, Jens; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2017

We present the first evidence that international emigrant selection on education and earnings materializes through occupational skills. Combining novel data from a representative Mexican task survey with rich individual-level worker data, we find that Mexican migrants to the United States have...

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Family size, sibling rivalry and migration : evidence from Mexico

Bratti, Massimiliano; Fiore, Simona; Mendola, Mariapia - 2016

This paper examines the causal effects of family size and demographic structure on offspring's international migration. We use rich survey data from Mexico to estimate the impact of sibship size, birth order and sibling composition on teenagers' and young adults' migration outcomes. We find no...

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