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Across the sea to Ireland : return Atlantic migration before the First World War

Fernihough, Alan; Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2019

Are return migrants 'losers' who fail to adapt to the challenges of the host economy, and thereby exacerbate the brain drain linked to emigration? Or are they 'winners' whose return enhances the human and physical capital of the home country? These questions are the subject of a burgeoning...

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Taking the skill bias out of global migration

Biavaschi, Costanza; Burzynski, Michał; Elsner, Benjamin; … - 2018

Global migration is heavily skill-biased, with tertiary-educated workers being four times more likely to migrate than … workers with a lower education. In this paper, we quantify the global impact of this skill bias in migration. Based on a … the skill bias in migration, while a small number of sending countries is significantly worse off. The negative effect in …

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Brain drain and brain gain in Italy and Ireland in the age of mass migration

Gomellini, Matteo; Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2019

Emigrants from Italy and Ireland contributed disproportionately to the Age of Mass Migration. That their departure … selectivity of migrant flows - both from sending and receiving country perspectives - has given rise to claims that migration … level of human capital in sending countries. On the other hand, the prospect of emigration and return migration may both …

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The political economy of immigration and population ageing

Dotti, Valerio - 2016 - This version 25th June 2016

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The economics of Canadian immigration levels

Doyle, Matthew; Skuterud, Mikal; Worswick, Christopher - 2023 - First draft: June 2023

In the hope of addressing chronic labour shortages and sluggish economic growth, the Canadian government plans to increase immigration in the coming years to per capita levels not reached since the 1920s. We argue that economic immigration in the Canadian context should aim to boost GDP per...

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Trade, migration, and the place premium : Mexico and the United States

Gandolfi, Davide; Halliday, Timothy; Robertson, Raymond - 2014

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Chinese language learning opportunities abroad and international student mobility to China

Huang, Yue; Lyu, Jingjing - Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg / Fakultät … - 2019

The number of overseas students in China has increased substantially over the last two decades, as has the number of Confucius Institutes (CIs) abroad. Using both official and self-compiled data on CIs abroad, and overseas students in China, by country of origin, we investigate empirically...

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Trade liberalization and Chinese students in US higher education

Khanna, Gaurav; Shih, Kevin Y.; Weinberger, Ariel; Xu, … - 2020

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Immigration and redistribution

Concannon, Jeff; Elsner, Benjamin - 2020

One of the fundamental questions in the social sciences is whether modern welfare states can be sustained as countries welcome more immigrants. On theoretical grounds, the relationship between immigration and support for redistribution is ambiguous. Immigration may increase ethnic diversity,...

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"The best country in the world" : the surprising social mobility of New York’s Irish famine immigrants

Anbinder, Tyler; Ó Gráda, Cormac; Wegge, Simone - 2021

We use databases we have created from the records of New York's Emigrant Savings Bank, founded by pre-Famine Irish immigrants and their children to serve Famine era immigrants, to study the social mobility of bank customers and, by extension, Irish immigrants more generally. We infer that New...

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