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Migration, Risk Attitudes, and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey

Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2014

Do more risk loving migrants opt for self-employment? This is a question especially relevant for policy makers designing selective immigration policies in countries of destination. In order to provide a rigorous answer to it, we use a novel vignette-adjusted measure of risk preferences in the...

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Do Migrants Send Remittances as a Way of Self-Insurance? Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey

Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2014

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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Who leaves and who stays? Outmigration of Estonian immigrants from Finland and its impact on economic assimilation of Estonian immigrants in Finland

Kangasniemi, Mari; Kauhanen, Merja - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2013

the second to the fourth year of migration spells. In terms of employment, there is a considerable employment differential …

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Heterogeneous Firms and Imperfect Substitution: The Productivity Effect of Migrants

Haas, Anette; Lucht, Michael - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2013

To examine the impact of migrants on the average firm productivity, wages and welfare we construct a general equilibrium model with monopolistic competition a la Melitz (2003) considering heterogeneous firms with different productivity levels and imperfect substitutability between migrants and...

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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), … - 2014

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...

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An empirical analysis of cross-border labour mobility in the case of Estonia

PAAS, TIIU; Kaska, Marta - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2013

The aim of this paper is to outline differences in the socio-demographic and employment characteristics of Estonian people who have worked in a neighbouring country – Finland, Sweden, Latvia or Russia. The empirical part of this paper relies on data from CV Keskus – an online employment...

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Out-migration, Wealth Constraints, and the Quality of Local Amenities

dustmann, christian; Okatenko, Anna - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2013

Using a simple theoretical model, we show that the level of migration costs relative to wealth determines the form of … the relation between income and migration intentions, which can be monotonically decreasing, increasing, or inverse U … that migration intentions do indeed respond to individual wealth, and that the patterns differ across the country groups …

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The political economy of trade and migration: Evidence from the U.S. Congress

Conconi, Paola; Facchini, Giovanni; Steinhardt, Max … - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2012

barriers and comparatively liberal migration policies have made these developments possible. What drove US congressmen to … political economy of trade and migration, in this paper we ﬁnd that important similarities should not be overlooked. In … to support a more open migration stance than their Republican counterparts, whereas the opposite is true for trade …

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STEMWorkers, H1B Visas and Productivity in US Cities

Peri, Giovanni; Sparber, Chad; Shih, Kevin - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2013

Scientists, Technology professionals, Engineers, and Mathematicians (STEM workers) are the fundamental inputs in scientific innovation and technological adoption. Innovation and technological adoption are, in turn, the main drivers of productivity growth in the U.S. In this paper we identify...

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What Determines Attitudes to Immigration in European Countries? An Analysis at the Regional Level

Longhi, Simonetta; Markaki, Yvonni - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2012

Different disciplines within the social sciences have produced large theoretical and empirical literatures to explain the determinants of anti-immigration attitudes. We bring together these literatures in a unified framework and identify testable hypothesis on what characteristics of the...

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