Search Results - subject:"International migration"

Weather shocks and migration intentions in Western Africa : insights from a multilevel analysis

Bertoli, Simone; Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel; … - 2020

migration intentions in Senegal, Niger and Ivory Coast. The effect on international migration intentions are only significant in …We use a multilevel approach to characterize the relationship between weather shocks and (internal and international …) migration intentions. We combine individual survey data on migration intentions with measures of localized weather shocks for …

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Supporting immigration for an enhanced agricultural sustainable development within the European Union

Cristea, Mirela; Noja, Gratiela Georgiana; Ponea, … - In: Facta Universitatis / Series economics and organization … 17 (2020) 1, pp. 1-16

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Immigrant inventors and diversity in the age of mass migration

Campo, Francesco; Mendola, Mariapia; Morrison, Andrea; … - 2020

A possible unintended but damaging consequence of anti-immigrant rhetoric, and the policies it inspires, is that they may put high-skilled immigrants off more than low-skilled ones at times when countries and businesses intensify their competition for global talent. We investigate this argument...

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Weather shocks and migration intentions in Western Africa : insights from a multilevel analysis

Bertolia, Simone; Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel; … - 2020

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Rational inattention and migration decisions

Bertoli, Simone; Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Jesús; … - 2020

Acquiring information about destinations can be costly for migrants. We model information frictions in the rational inattention framework and obtain a closed-form expression for a migration gravity equation that we bring to the data. The model predicts that ows from countries with a higher cost...

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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 migration and remittance effects on the school enrollment of children staying behind : the evidence from Tajikistan

Murakami, Enerelt - 2019

This paper explores the impact of international migration on school enrollment of children staying behind in Tajikistan …

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Say it like Goethe : language learning facilities abroad and the self-selection of immigrants

Jaschke, Philipp; Keita, Sekou - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung - 2019

Immigration policy in most high-income countries is designed to promote qualified migration while maintaining high requirements on characteristics such as education and language skills. We rely on a standard self-selection model with heterogeneous migration costs to discuss the effect of access...

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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 …

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Self-employment and migration

Giambra, Samuele; McKenzie, David J. - 2019

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