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Partial Legalization and Parallel Markets: The Effect of Lawful Crossing on Unlawful Crossing at the US Southwest Border
Clemens, Michael A. - 2024
Legal and illegal markets often coexist. In theory, marginal legalization can either substitute for the remaining parallel market, or complement it via scale effects. I study migrants crossing without prior authorization at the US southwest border, where large-scale unlawful crossing coexists...
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A Gendered Assessment of the Brain Drain
Docquier, Frédéric; Lowell, B. Lindsay; Marfouk, Abdeslam - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper updates and extends the Docquier-Marfouk data set on international migration byeducational attainment. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861086
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Migrant Networks, Migrant Selection,and High School Graduation in Mexico
Miranda, Alfonso - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper examines whether family and community migration experience affect theprobability of high school graduation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861188
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Economic Influences on Child Migration Decisions:Evidence from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh
Edmonds, Eric V.; Salinger, Philip - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
examining the correlates of out-migration for children under 15whose mother's reside in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, India. 1 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861384
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Surveying Migrant Households: A Comparison ofCensus-Based, Snowball, and Intercept Point Surveys
McKenzie, David J.; Mistiaen, Johan - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
migration on sending families. We report the results of an experimentdesigned to compare the performance of three alternative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861387
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The Making of a Ghetto Place-Based Policies, Labeling, and Impacts on Neighborhoods and Individuals
Govind, Yajna; Melbourne, Jack; Signorelli, Sara; Zink, … - 2024
Does the labeling of neighborhoods affect their outcomes? Place-based policies targeting disadvantaged areas aim to improve their conditions, but the labels they impose carry consequences of their own. In this paper, we examine Denmark's Ghetto Plan which designated public housing areas with a...
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Best and Brightest? The Impact of Student Visa Restrictiveness on Who Attends College in the US
Chen, Mingyu; Howell, Jessica; Smith, Jonathan - 2022
Recent immigration policies have created massive uncertainty for international students to obtain F-1 visas. Yet, before the COVID-19 pandemic, student visa applicants already faced an approximately 27 percent refusal rate that varies by time and region. Using data on the universe of SAT takers...
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Grandfathers and Grandsons: Social Security Expansion and Child Health in China
Yang, Jinyang; Chen, Xi - 2022
We examine the multigenerational impacts of a nationwide social pension program in China, the New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS). NRPS was rolled out in full scale since 2012, and rural enrollees over age 60 are eligible to receive a minimum of 70 CNY non-contributory monthly pension. We leverage...
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Migration and University Education: An Empirical (Macro) Link
Akkoyunlu, Sule; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2022
and migration. We examine the specific link between the acquisition of high levels of human capital in the form of … university education in Turkey and migration to Germany. We implement bounds testing procedures to ascertain the long …-run relationships with the variables of interest in a migration model. Although the bounds testing procedure has advantages compared to …
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Population Adjustment to Asymmetric Labour Market Shocks in India: A Comparison to Europe and the United States at Two Different Regional Levels
Braschke, Franziska; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2022
changes as proxies for regional migration. Comparing the results with those for the United States and the European Union, the … regional shocks by adjusting up to a third of a regional non-employment shock through migration within two years. This is …
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