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Financial development and remittances: Micro-econometric evidence

Bettin, Giulia; Lucchetti, Riccardo; Zazzaro, Alberto - In: Economics Letters 115 (2012) 2, pp. 184-186

We estimate a behavioural model of household’s remittances to investigate to what extent the level of financial development in the home country affects decisions on whether and how much to remit.

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The mover’s advantage: The superior performance of migrant scientists

Franzoni, Chiara; Scellato, Giuseppe; Stephan, Paula - In: Economics Letters 122 (2014) 1, pp. 89-93

Migrant scientists outperform domestic scientists. The result persists after instrumenting migration for reasons of … work or study with migration in childhood to minimize the effect of selection. The results are consistent with theories of …

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The labor demand was downward sloping: Disentangling migrants’ inflows and outflows, 1929–1957

Biavaschi, Costanza - In: Economics Letters 118 (2013) 3, pp. 531-534

This paper studies in- and out-migration from the U.S. during the first half of the twentieth century and assesses how … these flows affected state-level labor markets. It shows that out-migration positively impacted the earnings growth of … remaining workers, while in-migration had a negative impact. Hence, immigrant arrivals were substitutes of the existing …

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Who comes back and when? Return migration decisions of academic scientists

Gaulé, Patrick - In: Economics Letters 124 (2014) 3, pp. 461-464

countries. Yet, relatively little is known empirically about the return migration decisions of skilled workers. Here, I study a …

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Disadvantages of linguistic origin—Evidence from immigrant literacy scores

Isphording, Ingo E. - In: Economics Letters 123 (2014) 2, pp. 236-239

This study quantifies the disadvantage in literacy skills that arises from the linguistic distance between their mother tongue and host country language, combining individual cross-country data on literacy scores with unique information on the linguistic distance between languages.

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Inflow of labour, producer services and wage inequality

Zhang, Jingjing - In: Economics Letters 117 (2012) 3, pp. 600-603

This paper examines the issue of skilled–unskilled wage inequality in the shortrun when varieties of producer services are traded. It is shown that, irrespective of the relative size of income share of capital, inflow of neither skilled nor unskilled labour affects skilled–unskilled wage...

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Immigrant–native wage gaps in time series: Complementarities or composition effects?

Ruist, Joakim - In: Economics Letters 119 (2013) 2, pp. 154-156

Previous research has shown that immigrants’ wages decrease when the supply of immigrants increases. This negative correlation has been interpreted as evidence of immigrant–native complementarities in production. The present study finds that it is instead due to changing immigrant composition.

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Network effects on international trade

Lee, Jaehwa - In: Economics Letters 116 (2012) 2, pp. 199-201

the network effect of FDI, migration, and the Internet on international trade. Further, the findings show differences in … network effect for both the manufacturing and service sectors, whereas migration is important only for the manufacturing …

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Hurricane strikes and local migration in US coastal counties

Ouattara, B.; Strobl, E. - In: Economics Letters 124 (2014) 1, pp. 17-20

We examine the effects of hurricane shocks on key migration variables in US coastal counties. Results show that … hurricane strikes increase the outward migration rate and that these migrants were somewhat wealthier, but that there was no … impact on inward migration. …

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The impact of immigrants on host country crime

Dai, Tiantian; Liu, Xiangbo; Xie, Biancen - In: Economics Letters 119 (2013) 2, pp. 157-161

It is conventionally believed that immigration increases crime rates in the host country. However, empirical results are not in line with this crime concern. We develop a model with endogenous skill upgrading and criminal choices to reconcile the inconsistency.

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