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redistribution are related to immigration to various rich countries. In this paper, we take a look at the other side of the coin. We … analyze emigration from Denmark, which is one of the richest and most redistributive European Welfare States. Using …
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relationships have the opposite signs in economies characterized by skilled migration (relative to the native population). Such …
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Italy is a country with a long history of emigration and a very short experience of immigration. The paper first … surveys the Italian emigration pattern describing the characteristics of the Italian emigrants (age, sex, skill level), their … area of origins and the directions of their movement. The determinants of the migration choice are then analyzed as well as …
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redistribution are related to immigration to various rich countries. In this paper, we take a look at the other side of the coin. We … analyze emigration from Denmark, which is one of the richest and most redistributive European Welfare States. Using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005025603
The literature has noted that native views about legal as opposed to undocumented immigration in the U.S. differ. Furthermore, native views about immigration are known to vary by gender. Yet, most surveys do not inquire native men and women about their views with regards to the two distinct...
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There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labor force, and the potential policy responses. This paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success....
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Many empirical studies on the determinants of international migration flows rely exclusively on macro data, and do not … account for migrants' self-selection. We analyze a very interesting episode in international migration for which we are able … individual earnings and use them to estimate a discrete-choice migration equation that allows for correlated errors across …
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migration among those from countries with better quality school. In other words, it is the impact of origin country school …
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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 wages of remaining … workers, while in-migration had a negative impact. Hence, immigrant arrivals were substitutes of the existing workforce, while …
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hardly affect the migration decision. When analysing country choice, countries such as the USA, Canada and Australia appear … migration after graduation. We find that not only wage gains are driving the migration decision, but also differences in labour … market opportunities, past migration experience, and international student exchange are strong predictors of future migration …
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