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Crossing the Border: Self-selection, Earnings and Individual Migration Decisions
Bertoli, Simone; Moraga, Jesus Fernandez-Huertas; … - 2010
individual earnings and use them to estimate a discrete-choice migration equation that allows for correlated errors across … destinations and a rich structure of migration costs. We find that earnings significantly shape individual migration decisions …, even in an episode in which Ecuadorians mostly chose Spain where earnings were lower than in the US, and they contribute to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532818
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Crossing the Border: Self-selection, Earnings and Individual Migration Decisions
Bertoli, Simone; Ortega, Francesc; Moraga, Jesus … - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2010
individual earnings and use them to estimate a discrete-choice migration equation that allows for correlated errors across … destinations and a rich structure of migration costs. We find that earnings significantly shape individual migration decisions …, even in an episode in which Ecuadorians mostly chose Spain where earnings were lower than in the US, and they contribute to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009317957
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Heaven's Swing Door: Endogenous skills, migration networks and the effectiveness of quality-selective immigration policies
Bertoli, Simone; Rapoport, Hillel - 2013
A growing number of OECD countries are leaning toward adopting quality-selective immigration policies. The underlying assumption behind such policies is that more skill-selection should raise immigrants' average quality (or education level). This view tends to neglect two important dynamic e...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532881
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Heaven's Swing Door: Endogenous skills, migration networks and the effectiveness of quality-selective immigration policies
Bertoli, Simone; Rapoport, Hillel - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2013
A growing number of OECD countries are leaning toward adopting quality-selective immigration policies. The underlying assumption behind such policies is that more skill-selection should raise immigrants' average quality (or education level). This view tends to neglect two important dynamic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010895132
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Migrant Remittances and Information Flows: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Batista, Catia; Narciso, Gaia - 2013
Do information flows matter for remittance behavior? We design and implement a randomized control trial to quantitatively assess the role of communication between migrants and their contacts abroad on the extent and value of remittance flows. In the experiment, a random sample of 1,500 migrants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532730
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Self-employment and Migration
Giambra, Samuele; McKenzie, David - 2019
There is a widespread policy view that a lack of job opportunities at home is a key reason for migration, accompanied by suggestions of the need to spend more on creating these opportunities so as to reduce migration. Self-employment is widespread in poor countries, and faced with a lack of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532786
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The role of language in shaping international migration
Adsera, Alicia; Pytlikova, Mariola - 2012
Fluency in (or ease to quickly learn) the language of the destination country plays a key role in the transfer of human capital from the source country to another country and boosts the immigrant's rate of success at the destination's labor market. This suggests that the ability to learn and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532924
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The role of language in shaping international migration
Adsera, Alicia; Pytlikova, Mariola - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2012
Fluency in (or ease to quickly learn) the language of the destination country plays a key role in the transfer of human capital from the source country to another country and boosts the immigrant's rate of success at the destination's labor market. This suggests that the ability to learn and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651438
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Migrant Remittances and Information Flows: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Batista, Catia; Narciso, Gaia - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2013
Do information flows matter for remittance behavior? We design and implement a randomized control trial to quantitatively assess the role of communication between migrants and their contacts abroad on the extent and value of remittance flows. In the experiment, a random sample of 1,500 migrants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011129930
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European immigrants in the UK before and after the 2004 enlargement: Is there a change in immigrant self-selection?
Longhi, Simonetta; Rokicka, Magdalena - 2012
The 2004 accession of Eastern European countries (EU8) to the European Union has generated concerns about the influx of low-skill immigrants to the Western member states (EU15). Only three countries, namely Ireland, Sweden, and the UK, did not impose restrictions to immigration from Eastern...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532747