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Where do migrants from countries ridden by environmental conflict settle? : On the scale, selection and sorting of conflict-induced migration

Krieger, Tim; Renner, Laura; Schmid, Lena - 2019

Environmentally induced conflicts can trigger migration. This paper analyzes the location decisions of migrants, i.e., the "sorting" of migrants into alternative destinations. We argue that this sorting depends on a variety of factors. The selection of migrants affects preferences over where to...

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Migration for development : from challenges to opportunities

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2017

This contribution investigates the opportunities of migration for developing countries. The benefits of migration for sending countries are often undervalued. But migrants may foster trade, remittances, innovations, investments back home, and even return home at some time with better human...

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Taking the skill bias out of global migration

Biavaschi, Costanza; Burzynski, Michał; Elsner, Benjamin; … - 2018

quantitative multi-country model with trade, we compare the current world to a counterfactual with the same number of migrants …

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A global profile of emigrants to OECD countries : younger and more skilled migrants from more diverse countries

Aiglepierre, Rohen d'; David, Anda; Levionnois, Charlotte; … - 2020

This paper presents new findings on the main characteristics of immigrants living in OECD countries by country of origin, drawing from the updated Database on Immigrants in OECD Countries (DIOC) 2015/16. It describes migrant populations by country of destination and country of origin in 2015/16,...

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The world at the crossroad : demographic polarization and mass migration : global threat or global opportunity

Bruni, Michele - 2019

The unstoppable progress of the demographic transition is determining a progressive decline of the rates of growth of the total population and working age population of the planet, two phenomena that could have a very positive global socioeconomic and environmental impact. Unfortunately, it is...

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Anti-migration as a threat to internationalization? : a review of the migration-internationalization literature

Hatzigeorgiou, Andreas; Lodefalk, Magnus - 2018

Does anti-migration sentiment threaten internationalization? One major pro-Brexit argument was that it would enable more control over immigration. The most recent US presidential election also focused on immigration. Anti-migration sentiment could be a threat to internationalization, given that...

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Climate change, inequality, and human migration

Burzyńskia, Michał; Deuster, Christoph; Docquier, … - 2019

migration of workers. For nearly all of the world's countries, our micro-founded model jointly endogenizes the effects of …

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Global integration and world migration

Stark, Oded - 2017

This paper explores the following chain of conjectures: rising use of the internet, the widespread access to global information, and intensified communication between regions and countries brought about, for example, by intensified trade links bring about expansion of people's social space and...

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Emigration, remittances and the subjective well-being of those staying behind

Ivlevs, Artjoms; Nikolova, Milena; Graham, Carol - 2018

behind, existing studies have focused on single origin countries or specific world regions. Our study is the first to offer a …-being measures (evaluations of best possible life, positive affect, stress, and depression). Drawing upon Gallup World Poll data for … less common, such as more developed countries, and specific world regions, such as Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa, as …

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Who is an internal migrant?

Sharma, Rasadhika; Grote, Ulrike - 2019

There is no internationally accepted definition of an internal migrant. Different surveys and academic papers use varied definitions that are open to subjectivity. Our paper stresses this issue and tests the sensitivity of results obtained by econometric analysis to the use of different defining...

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