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Determinants of International Migration: Empirical Evidence for Migration from Developing Countries to Germany

Rotte, Ralph; Vogler, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

international migration from developing to developed countries. In addition, we look at the relationship between trade, development … and migration. Empirical studies focusing on international migration from Less Developed Countries (LDCs) are, so far …, very scarce. In this paper, we utilize a new dataset that is based on migration to Germany from 86 African and Asian …

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Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance and Self-Employment Proclivity: A Bi-National Study of Immigrants

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labor force, and the potential policy responses. This paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success....

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Migration and Economic Mobility in Tanzania: Evidence from a Tracking Survey

Beegle, Kathleen; De Weerdt, Joachim; Dercon, Stefan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

This study explores to what extent migration has contributed to improved living standards of individuals in Tanzania …. Using a 13-year panel survey, the authors find that migration between 1991 and 2004 added 36 percentage points to … migration of some categories of people. …

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The Brain Drain: Some Evidence from European Expatriates in the US

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

This Paper uses US Census data from 1990 and 2000 to provide evidence on the labour market characteristics of European-born workers living in the US. It is found that there is a positive wage premium associated with these workers, and that the highly skilled are over-represented compared with...

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A Theory of Immigration Amnesties

Epstein, Gil S; Weiss, Avi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

This paper presents a first attempt at understanding some of the many issues involved in the granting of an amnesty to illegal immigrants. We consider government behavior with respect to allocations on limiting infiltration (border control) and apprehending infiltrators (internal control) and,...

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Illegal immigration and media exposure: Evidence on individual attitudes

Facchini, Giovanni; Mayda, Anna Maria; Puglisi, Riccardo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

Illegal immigration has been the focus of much debate in receiving countries, but little is known about what drives individual attitudes towards illegal immigrants. To study this question, we use the CCES survey, which was carried out in 2006 in the United States. We find evidence that - in...

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The rhetoric of closed borders: quotas, lax enforcement and illegal migration

Facchini, Giovanni; Testa, Cecilia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Despite restrictive migration policies, large numbers of undocumented migrants reside in many destination countries. If … official migration targets are not enforced, why are they devised? To address this puzzle, we develop a political agency model …

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Capital Export, Unemployment, and Illegal Immigration

Schulze, Gunther G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

This paper analyses capital export controls under majority voting. It is shown that individuals vote according to their factor endowment ratio. An individual’s optimal restriction is tighter, the lower their capital-labour ratio and the larger the country; it is also tighter if unemployment...

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The Farm, the City and the Emergence of Social Security

Caucutt, Elizabeth; Cooley, Thomas F; Guner, Nezih - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

During the period from 1880 to 1950 publicly managed retirement security programs became an important part of the social fabric in most advanced economies. In this paper we study the social, demographic and economic origins of social security. We describe a model economy in which demographics,...

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The Era of Migration: Lessons for Today

O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

an era of largely free migration. As such, it constitutes a unique policy experiment, in which migration flows reflected … underlying economic forces, rather than government policy. Moreover, since there was large-scale migration between relatively … rich countries with relatively well-developed states, and since the migration was legal, it was extremely well …

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