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Time-Space Dynamics of Return and Circular Migration : Theories and Evidence

Constant, Amelie - 2020

heterogeneous people and cannot conform under one theory or empirical study. Their de facto migration comportment can be understood …

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Migrants' Missing Votes

Giesing, Yvonne; Schikora, Felicitas - 2021

Emigrants are less likely to participate in elections in their home country. They are also self-selected in terms of education, gender, age, and political preferences, changing the structure of the origin population. High emigration rates can therefore have a systematic influence on election...

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Can Tax Incentives Bring Brains Back? Returnees Tax Schemes and High-Skilled Migration in Italy

Bassetto, Jacopo; Ippedico, Giuseppe - 2023

Brain drain is a growing concern for many countries experiencing large emigration rates of their highly educated citizens. While several European countries have designed preferential tax schemes to attract high-skilled individuals, there is limited empirical evidence on the effectiveness of...

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The Cushioning Effect of Immigrant Mobility

Özgüzel, Cem - 2021

During the Great Recession, immigrants reacted to the drop in labour demand in Spain through internal migration or leaving the country. Consequently, provinces lost 13.5% of their immigrants or - 3% of the total labour supply, on average. Using municipal registers and longitudinal administrative...

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Mobile Internet Access and the Desire to Emigrate

Harm Adema, Joop Age; Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Poutvaara, Panu - 2022

In this paper, we present theory and global evidence on how mobile internet access affects desire and plans to emigrate …. Our theory predicts that mobile internet access increases desire and plans to emigrate. Our empirical analysis combines …-middle-income countries. In line with our theory, an important mechanism appears to be that access to the mobile internet lowers the cost of …

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Knowledge Remittances : Does Emigration Foster Innovation?

Fackler, Thomas - 2019

Does the emigration of skilled individuals necessarily result in losses for source countries due to the brain drain? Combining industry-level patenting and migration data from 32 European countries, we show that emigration in fact positively contributes to innovation in source countries. We use...

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Risk Sharing in Currency Unions : The Migration Channel

Kohler, Wilhelm; Müller, Gernot J.; Wellmann, Susanne - 2021

theory, migration should play a key role when it comes to insulating per capita consumption from aggregate fluctuations, and …

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The Impact of the Prehistoric Out-of-Africa Migration on Cultural Diversity

Crisóstomo Wainstock, Daniel; Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc … - 2023

Evidence suggests that the prehistoric Out of Africa Migration has impacted the degree of intrapopulation genetic and phenotypic diversity across the globe. This paper provides the first evidence that this migration has shaped cultural diversity. Leveraging a folklore catalogue of 958 oral...

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Labor Market Competition and the Assimilation of Immigrants

Albert, Christoph; Glitz, Albrecht; Llull, Joan - 2021

In this paper, we show that the wage assimilation of immigrants is the result of the intricate interplay between individual skill accumulation and dynamic equilibrium effects in the labor market. When immigrants and natives are imperfect substitutes, increasing immigrant inflows widen the wage...

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Weather Shocks and Migration Intentions in Western Africa : Insights from a Multilevel Analysis

Bertoli, Simone - 2020

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 Western African countries over 2008-2016. A...

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