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This paper studies the decision made by a family to invest in student migration. We propose an empirical structural … this procedure. We study the characteristics of potential candidates to migration that increase or decrease their … complete a Master's degree doubles the odds of migration, there is little evidence of gender preference, students migrants are …
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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 … of migrant behavior. We propose a general theoretical framework for modeling temporary migration decisions, based on …
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-matching framework (Pissaridès, 1985, 2000) in a migration model à la Harris and Todaro (1970). We find that the inflow of TFWs into a …
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Migration and trade are often linked through ethnic networks boosting bilateral trade. This study uses migration to … advantages, and it establishes a connection of migration to home country exports beyond bilateral networks …
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Immigration may impact income distribution both by affecting the skill composition of a country's residents, and, by changing relative factor supplies, its relative factor prices. We provide some background evidence on compositional factors but focus primarily on factor prices. We first consider...
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This paper examines the relationship between international migration and source country fertility. The impact of … international migration on source country fertility may have a number of causes, including a transfer of destination countries … original and detailed data on migration. Our results provide evidence of a strong transfer of fertility norms from migrants to …
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unrestricted market free migration from football players will be Pareto efficient under special circumstances only. This paper … shows that transfer fees can correct inefficient migration flows from small to large football leagues. Home-grown rules that …
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migrant selection. We analyze bilateral country-level education-specific migration stocks from 85 sending countries to the 15 … migration for low-skilled migrants. Results are robust to the inclusion of sending and destination country fixed effects …
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