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Climatic Factors as Determinants of International Migration

Beine, Michel; Parsons, Christopher - CESifo - 2012

We examine environmental factors as potential determinants of international migration. We distinguish between unexpected short-run factors, captured by natural disasters, as well as long-run climate change and climate variability. Building on a simple neo-classical model we use a panel dataset...

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Aggregate Fluctuations and International Migration

Beine, Michel; Bourgeon, Pauline; Bricongne, Jean-Charles - CESifo - 2013

the wage differential or the bilateral distance. Compiling a dataset with annual gross migration flows between 30 …

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International Migration of Couples

Junge, Martin; Munk, Martin D.; Poutvaara, Panu - CESifo - 2014

We present a theory on migration of dual-earner couples, and test it in the context of international migration. Our model predicts that the probability that a couple emigrates increases in the earnings of the primary earner. The effect of the earnings of the secondary earner may go either way....

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Migration and Networks: Does Education Matter more than Gender?

Beine, Michel; Salomone, Sara - CESifo - 2010

gender. Women are also found to be less directly dependent on migration costs unrelated to networks such as distance. … at whether diaspora effects are different across education levels and gender. Using new data allowing to include both … influencing the selection in terms skills and in term of gender. We found that network effects vary by education level but not by …

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International Migration, Income Taxes and Transfers: A Welfare Analysis

Michael, Michael S. - CESifo - 2002

An important issue in public policy debates is the effect of international migration on welfare in source and host countries. We address this issue by constructing a general equilibrium model of a two-class source or host country. Each country produces many traded and non-traded goods, uses...

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Brain Drain in the Age of Mass Migration: Does Relative Inequality Explain Migrant Selectivity?

Stolz, Yvonne; Baten, Jörg - CESifo - 2012

Brain drain is a core economic policy problem for many developing countries today. Does relative inequality in source and destination countries influence the brain-drain phenomenon? We explore human capital selectivity during the period 1820-1909.We apply age heaping techniques to measure human...

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The Retirement of the Migrant Labor Force: Pension Portability and Beyond

Jousten, Alain - CESifo - 2012

The specificities of the workforce with a migrant background are often neglected in studies of retirement. Similarly, many studies of migration¡¯s impact on pensions often focus on aggregate outcomes ¨C system sustainability or distributive characteristics. The present paper provides a fresh...

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Workers without Borders? Culture, Migration and the Political Limits to Globalization

Jain, Sanjay; Majumdar, Sumon; Mukand, Sharun - CESifo - 2010

This paper examines the role of cultural factors in driving the politics and shape of migration policy. We show that there exists a broad political failure that results in inefficiently high barriers restricting the import of temporary foreign workers and also admitting an inefficiently large...

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Does Bilateral Trust Affect International Movement of Goods and Labor

Spring, Eva; Grossmann, Volker - CESifo - 2013

separately with eight indicators of genetic (‘somatic’) distance between country-pairs. These indicators work equally well at the …

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The Economics of Temporary Migrations

Dustmann, Christian; Görlach, Joseph-Simon - CESifo - 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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