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This paper explores the links between the patterns of migration (high vs. low-skill), trade policy, and foreign direct …-skill intensive, emigration of high- skill labour leads to positive FDI, suggesting that migration and FDI are complements. Cross …-sectional analysis using FDI and emigration data for 103 migration-sending countries over the period 1990-2000 finds some support for …
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contributes to a small but growing literature on the impact of South-South migration by looking at one of the most attractive … with outflows of natives to other districts as a consequence of migration, as in Borjas (2006). …
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relationships have the opposite signs in economies characterized by skilled migration (relative to the native population). Such …
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Determinants of national policies towards immigration are analysed in the context of an economy open to international trade. Arguments for the existence of an ‘immigration surplus’ are reviewed and followed by an interpretative survey of the principal contributions of the political economy...
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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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this paper we analyze the factors that affect a direct measure of individual attitudes towards skilled migration, focusing …
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This paper empirically analyzes both economic and non-economic determinants of attitudes towards immigrants, within and across countries. The two individual-level survey data sets used, covering a wide range of developed and developing countries, make it possible to test for interactive effects...
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analyzing patterns in public opinion on migration and find that, across countries of different income levels, only a small … minority of voters favour more open migration policies. Next we investigate the determinants of voters' preferences towards … examines how attitudes translate into a migration policy outcome. We consider two alternative political-economy frameworks: the …
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This paper uses a three-factor (capital, low- and high-skill labour), two-household (low- and high-skill individuals), two-sector trade model to analyse the determinants of voter attitudes towards immigration under direct democracy and identify factors that would be coherent with both the...
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In this paper I empirically investigate the determinants of migration inflows into fourteen OECD countries by country … of origin, between 1980 and 1995. I analyze the effect on migration of average income and income dispersion in … played by changes in destination countries' migration policies. My analysis both delivers estimates consistent with the …
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