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Do natural hazards cause international migration?

Gröschl, Jasmin Katrin; Steinwachs, Thomas - 2016

with the World Bank’s Global Bilateral Migration Database. Overall, our results suggest little evidence that natural …

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Anelli, Massimo; Basso, Gaetano; Ippedico, Giuseppe; … - 2020

Emigration of young, motivated individuals may deprive countries-of-origin of entrepreneurs. We isolate exogenous variation in a large emigration wave from Italy between 2008 and 2015 by interacting diaspora networks with economic pull factors in destination countries, and find that larger...

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Brain drain in the age of mass migration : does relative inequality explain migrant selectivity?

Stolz, Yvonne; Baten, Jörg - 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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International emigrant selection on occupational skills

Patt, Alexander; Ruhose, Jens; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2017

We present the first evidence that international emigrant selection on education and earnings materializes through occupational skills. Combining novel data from a representative Mexican task survey with rich individual-level worker data, we find that Mexican migrants to the United States have...

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Brexit and foreign students in gravity

Davies, Ronald B.; Specht, Lena S. - 2024

This paper examines the impact of Brexit on international student migration. In a structural gravity model, we estimate student migration between 69 countries for counterfactual scenarios in which the United Kingdom leaves the European Union one year before the referendum. This exercise reveals...

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Women's rights and the gender migration gap

Gutmann, Jerg; Marchal, Léa; Simsek, Betül - 2023

This is the first global study of how institutionally entrenched gender discrimination affects the gender migration gap (GMG) using data on 158 origin and 37 destination countries over the period 1961-2019. We estimate a gravity equation derived from a random utility maximization model of...

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Female migration : a way out of discrimination?

Ruyssen, Ilse; Salomone, Sara - 2015

be explained by perceived gender discrimination. Thanks to unique individual level data, we track women's willingness and …, preventing women from actually moving abroad. …

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Culture and gender allocation of tasks : source country characteristics and the division of non-market work among US immigrants

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Comey, Matthew; … - 2020

-generation immigrants, both women and men, from source countries with more gender equality (as measured by the World Economic Forum’s Global …

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Migrants, trade and market access

Bonadio, Barthélémy - 2023

Migrants shape market access: first, they reduce international trade frictions and second, they change the geographical location of domestic demand. This paper shows that both effects are quantitatively relevant. It estimates the sensitivity of exports and imports to immigrant population and...

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Exploring the intensive and extensive margins of world trade : presented at Venice Summer Institute, Workshop on Dissecting Globalization, July 2004

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Kohler, Wilhelm - 2004

World trade evolves at two margins. Where a bilateral trading relationship already exists it may increase through time … have not traded with each other in the past (extensive margin). We provide an empirical dissection of post-World-War- II … growth in manufacturing world trade along these two margins. We propose a "cornersolutions- version"of the gravity model to …

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