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Firms Left Behind : Emigration and Firm Productivity
Giesing, Yvonne - 2018
This paper establishes a causal link between the emigration of skilled workers and firm performance in source countries …. Using firm-level panel data from ten Eastern European countries, we show that the emigration of skilled workers lowers firm … to 2014 as a source of exogenous variation in the emigration rates from new EU member states. We argue that a potential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012927105
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Do Emigrants Self-Select Along Cultural Traits? Evidence from the MENA Countries
Docquier, Frédéric - 2018
This paper empirically investigates whether emigrants from MENA countries self-select on cultural traits such as religiosity and gender-egalitarian attitudes. To do so, we use Gallup World Poll data on individual opinions and beliefs, migration aspirations, short-run migration plans, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012929247
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Climatic Factors as Determinants of International Migration
Beine, Michel A. R. - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013109744
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The Effects of Foreign Aid on Refugee Flows
Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Langlotz, Sarah - 2021
data on 141 origin countries over the 1976-2013 period with bilateral Official Development Assistance data, we estimate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315429
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Illegal Migration and Consumption Behavior of Immigrant Households
Dustmann, Christian; Fasani, Francesco; Speciale, Biagio - 2021
in the home country, measured as rainfall shocks at the time of emigration. Second, amnesty quotas that grant legal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315505
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The Effect of Labor Migration on the Diffusion of Democracy: Evidence from a Former Soviet Republic
Mahmoud, Toman Omar; Rapoport, Hillel; Steinmayr, Andreas; … - CESifo - 2013
Moldova, we show that the emigration episode that started in the late 1990s strongly affected political preferences and …. Identification relies on the quasi-experimental context studied and on the differential effects arising from the fact that emigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010693475
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The Spread of Anti-Trafficking Policies - Evidence from a New Index
Cho, Seo-Young; Dreher, Axel; Neumayer, Eric - CESifo - 2011
We analyze the spread of policies dealing with international trafficking in human beings. Arguing that countries are unlikely to make independent choices, we identify pressure, externalities and learning or emulation as plausible diffusion mechanisms for spatial dependence in anti-trafficking...
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Guest-Worker Migration, Human Capital and Fertility
Azarnert, Leonid V. - CESifo - 2011
This work focuses on a temporary guest-worker-type migration of individuals from the middle class of the wealth distribution. The article demonstrates that the possibility of a low-skilled guest-worker employment in a higher wage foreign country lowers the relative attractiveness of the skilled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009020797
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Aggregate Fluctuations and International Migration
Beine, Michel; Bourgeon, Pauline; Bricongne, Jean-Charles - CESifo - 2013
Traditional theories of integration such as the optimum currency area approach attribute a prominent role to international labour mobility in coping with relative economic fluctuations between countries. However, recent studies on international migration have overlooked the role of short-run...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010690373
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International Migration of Skilled Workers with Endogenous Policies
Djajic, Slobodan; Michael, Michael S. - CESifo - 2014
production function for human capital, the country’s emigration rate, and the international wage differential. We use the model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010761526