Search Results - subject:"International migration"

Geography matters : spatial dimensions of trade, migration and growth

Steinwachs, Thomas - 2019

plurilateral agreement's spatial dimension. Chapter 2 provides a gravity analysis of international migration flows to investigate …

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Birthplace diversity and team performance

Brox, Enzo; Krieger, Tommy - 2019

We present a simple model to illustrate how birthplace diversity may affect team performance. The model assumes that birthplace diversity increases the stock of available knowledge due to skill complementarities and decreases effciency due to communication barriers. The consequence of these two...

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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 …

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International migration and development : institutional consequences of global mobility for sending and receiving countries between 1970 and 2010

Bashko, Aliaksei - 2018

wide range of benefits that international migration brings to global development. Main aim of the paper is to provide an … institutional impacts of international migration. The research proves a positive influence of international migration on …

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International migration and the distribution of income in New Zealand metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas

Alimi, Omoniyi B.; Maré, David Christopher; Poot, Jacques - 2018

Since the 1980s, income inequality in New Zealand has been a growing concern - particularly in metropolitan areas. At the same time, the encouragement of permanent and temporary immigration has led to the foreign-born accounting for a growing share of the population; this is disproportionally so...

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International migration intentions and illegal costs : evidence from Africa-to-Europe smuggling routes

Friebel, Guido; Manchin, Miriam; Mendola, Mariapia; … - 2018

Irregular migrants from Africa and the Middle East flow into Europe along land and sea routes under the control of human smugglers. The demise of the Gaddafi regime in 2011 marked the opening of the Central Mediterranean Route for irregular border - crossing between Libya and Italy. This...

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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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The structure of origin-based social network and its influence on migration diffusion : the case of a migrant-sending village in the Philippines

Tabuga, Aubrey D. - 2018

While economic forces drive much of international migration, social factors are known to significantly facilitate …-historical lens - an unconventional approach in the analysis of international migration perpetuation. Results show that the density of … distribution of migration behavior in the area. Know more about the factors affecting international migration structures in the …

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Frontloaded income taxation of old-age pensions : for efficiency and fairness in a world of international labor mobility

Genser, Bernd; Holzmann, Robert - 2018

Strong evidence shows that the existing pattern of cross-border pension taxation in OECD countries and beyond is extremely diverse and inconsistent, generating a double fairness dilemma for individuals and countries alike. This paper argues that this dilemma cannot be solved within the current...

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It’s the way people move! Labour migration as an adjustment device in Russia

Pastore, Francesco; Semerikova, Elena - 2020

This paper aims to assess the role of migration as an adjustment mechanism device to favor convergence across states and regions of Russia. In contrast to previous studies, we use variations in the population of a region as a proxy of its net migration rate and apply spatial econometric...

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