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di Giovanni, Julian; Levchenko, Andrei A.; Ortega, Francesc - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

difference, international trade, remittances, and a heterogeneous workforce. We compare welfare under the observed levels of … flows -- such as Jamaica or El Salvador -- are also better off due to migration, but for a different reason: remittances … about 10% in countries with large incoming remittances. Our results are robust to accounting for imperfect transferability …

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Asymmetry of Information within Family Networks

De Weerdt, Joachim; Genicot, Garance; Mesnard, Alice - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

This paper studies asymmetry of information and transfers within a unique data set of 712 extended family networks from Tanzania. Using cross-reports on asset holdings, we construct measures of misperception of income among all pairs of households belonging to the same network. We show that...

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Soaring Minds: The Flight of Israel’s Economists

Ben-David, Dan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Despite their small number, Israeli economists have become an important fixture in the international academic scene. In recent years, this phenomenon has been characterized by an additional attribute: the number of Israelis who have chosen to leave the country’s universities - or not to return...

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Vanishing Third World Emigrants?

Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

This paper documents a stylized fact not well appreciated in the literature. The Third World has been undergoing an emigration life cycle since the 1960s, and, except for Africa, emigration rates have been level or even declining since a peak in the late 1980s the early 1990s. The current...

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Sale of Visas: A Smuggler's Final Song?

Auriol, Emmanuelle; Mesnard, Alice - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

We study how smugglers respond to different types of migration policies - legalisation through the sale of migration visas, or more traditional repressive policies through borders' enforcement, employers' sanctions or deportation - by changing the price they propose to illegal migrants. In this...

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European migration, national origin and long-term economic development in the US

Rodriguez-Pose, Andres; von Berlepsch, Viola - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Have Irish, German or Italian settlers arriving in the US at the turn of the 20th century left an institutional trace which determines economic development differences to this day? Does the national origin of migrants matter for long-term development? This paper explores whether the distinct...

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When migrants rule: the legacy of mass migration on economic development in the US

Rodriguez-Pose, Andres; von Berlepsch, Viola - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

This paper examines the extent to which the distinct settlement pattern of migrants arriving in the US during the big migration waves of the late 19th and early 20th centuries has left a legacy on the economic development of the counties where they settled and whether this legacy can be traced...

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The Making of Modern America: Migratory Flows in the Age of Mass Migration

Bandiera, Oriana; Rasul, Imran; Viarengo, Martina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

We provide new estimates of migrant flows into and out of America during the Age of Mass Migration at the turn of the twentieth century. Our analysis is based on a novel data set of administrative records covering the universe of 24 million migrants who entered Ellis Island, New York between...

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The Economics of Temporary Migrations

Dustmann, Christian; Görlach, Joseph-Simon - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

Many migrations are temporary – a fact that has often been ignored in the economic literature on migration. Such omission may be serious in that expected migration temporariness can impart a distinct dynamic element to immigrants’ economic behavior, generating possible consequences for...

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Brain Drained: A Tale of Two Countries

Ben-David, Dan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

This paper provides a comparative examination of how public universities in two countries, the United States and Israel, have evolved over the past few decades - and how differences between the two have culminated in a rate of academic brain drain from the latter to the former that is...

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