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International migration in Asia and the Pacific determinants and role of economic integration

Kikkawa, Aiko; Gaspar, Raymond; Park, Cyn-Young - 2019

International migration is an essential element of economic integration. Yet, the intraregional movement of people and labor in Asia and the Pacific has stagnated in recent years even as the flow of goods, services, and investment have steadily risen. This paper examines key factors driving the...

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Diaspora externalities : a view from the South

Rapoport, Hillel - 2018

Migration decisions affect those left-behind in ways that are partly taken into account by market forces (e.g., wage effects on labour markets) and for the most part these can be seen as pure externalities. Diasporas are an example of such an externality. This paper reviews the recent economic...

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Migration, political institutions, and social networks

Batista, Catia; Seither, Julia; Vicente, Pedro C. - 2018

Africa - and with one of the lowest political participation rates in the region. The empirical results show that the number …

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The impact of family size and sibling structure on the great Mexico-U.S. migration

Bratti, Massimiliano; Fiore, Simona; Mendola, Mariapia - 2019

We investigate how fertility and demographic factors affect migration at the household level by assessing the causal effects of sibship size and structure on offspring's international migration. We use a rich demographic survey on the population of Mexico and exploit presumably exogenous...

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Self-employment and migration

Giambra, Samuele; McKenzie, David J. - 2019

There is a widespread policy view that a lack of job opportunities at home is a key reason for migration, accompanied by suggestions of the need to spend more on creating these opportunities so as to reduce migration. Self-employment is widespread in poor countries, and faced with a lack of...

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The healthy immigrant paradox and health convergence

Constant, Amelie - 2017

The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental dimensions of any country. Yet it is often the missing statistic in all general statistics, demographics, and presentations about the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper...

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International import competition and the decision to migrate : evidence from Mexico

Majlesi, Kaveh; Narciso, Gaia - 2018

We analyze the effects of the increase in China's import competition on Mexican domestic and international migration. We exploit the variation in exposure to competition from China, following its accession to the WTO in 2001, across Mexican municipalities and estimate the effect of international...

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Do emigrants self-select along cultural traits? : evidence from the MENA Countries

Docquier, Frédéric; Tansel, Aysıt; Turati, Riccardo - 2017

This paper empirically investigates whether emigrants from MENA countries self-select on cultural traits such as religiosity and gender-egalitarian attitudes. To do so, we use Gallup World Poll data on individual opinions and beliefs, migration aspirations, short-run migration plans, and...

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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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Managing the impact of climate on migration : evidence from Mexico

Chort, Isabelle; De La Rupelle, Maëlys; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2019

This paper uses state-level data on migration flows between Mexico and the U.S. from 1999 to 2011 to investigate the migration response to climate shocks and the mitigating impact of an agricultural cash-transfer program (PROCAMPO) and a disaster fund (Fonden). While lower than average...

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