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Forced displacement as a consequence of wars, civil conflicts, or natural disasters does not only have contemporaneous consequences but also long-run repercussions. This eclectic overview summarizes some recent research on forced displacement in economic history. While many of the episodes...
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migrant networks. These results are robust to controlling for self-selection into migration as well as endogenous network …What is the role of international migrants and, specifically, migrant networks in shaping political attitudes and … behavior in migrant sending countries? Our theoretical framework proposes that migration might change individual social …
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Do migrants send remittances as a way of obtaining insurance? While this motive is theoretically suggested in the literature, the question of identifying this relationship empirically has only begun to be explored. Using a unique representative survey of 1500 immigrants in the Greater Dublin...
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Two of the most salient trends surrounding the issue of migration and development over the last two decades are the … large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross …-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit less, leading to concerns that further increases in skilled migration …
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predominantly determined by the same success factors as those for the New Zealand born. Migration increases trade and tourism, both … consequences of greater diversity; and differences in impacts between temporary and long-term migration. …
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migration pressure, and in disappointment amongst those who do migrate. Yet there is almost no statistical evidence on how … migration destination. Our procedure enables us to obtain moments and quantiles of the subjective distribution of expected … weight on the negative employment experiences of some migrants, and by inaccurate information flows from extended family, who …
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inherently multi-country nature of both migration and other forms of integration, such as international trade and remittance …This paper evaluates the welfare impact of observed levels of migration and remittances in both origins and … and thus higher welfare, all else equal. Because of this effect, natives in countries that received a lot of migration …
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migration but uses the help of cartelized smugglers. To overcome this trade-off we study how legalisation and repression can be … combined to eliminate human smuggling while controlling migration flows. This policy mix also has the advantage that the funds …
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During the last few decades cultural changes have been taking place in many countries due to migration. The degree to …
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to questions on social networks, volunteering and sense of community. The economic standard of living is measured by …
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