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Discussions of high-skilled mobility typically evoke migration patterns from poorer to wealthier countries, which … capital mobility through bilateral migration stocks by gender and education in 1990 and 2000, and calculation of nuanced brain …-gravity model, then identifies key determinants of international migration, and subsequently uses estimated parameters to impute …
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This article estimates the macroeconomic determinants of Mexican migration to the U.S.A., using information on the … ratio of the U.S.A.’s PIB to Mexico’s states PIB showed a positive effect on migration,suggesting regional economic … determinants for migration. In this case, the PIB per cápita had a negative effect, which implies that the poorest states …
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This paper examines the effect of one partner’s overseas migration on the other non-migrant partner’s labor force … examines the income remittance and the conjugal home-time effects of overseas migration. Addressing the potential endogeneity … of income and migration, estimates establish stronger conjugal home time effects of migration for married women and …
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Recent migration patterns show growing migration pressure and changing composition of immigrants in many Western … educational level of the population is low. The migration patterns may be affected by the relatively generous welfare schemes in … most OECD countries, but also network effects and migration policy changes may be important factors behind the observed …
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Using data from the Spanish Labor Force Survey (Encuesta de Población Activa) from 1999 through 2004, we explore the role of regional employment opportunities in explaining the increasing immigrant flows of recent years despite the limited internal mobility on the part of natives. Subsequently,...
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abroad statistics, we find little evidence of a mass exodus. Neither do we find sufficient evidence when we analyze migration … of the economic crisis on migration in Spain. It is a preliminary descriptive draft in which the basic lines of the main … changes regarding international immigrants are drawn. KEYWORDS: international migration, economic crisis, shadow economy. JEL …
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This paper aims to analyse migration and remittances in Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs) on the case … Ukrainian Migration Project (UMP). More specifically, it seeks to examine features and determinants of migration and remittances … policymakers on both sides of the migration corridor to formulate proper policies that aim at influencing the migration and …
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A burgeoning literature has emerged during the last two decades to assess the economic impacts of immigration on host countries. In recent years much research has been at the national level under the assumption that impacts in open regions may dissipate through adjustment processes such as...
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Why do people leave high-income countries with extensive welfare states? This article will examine what underlies the emigration intentions of native-born inhabitants of one industrialized country in particular: the Netherlands. To understand emigration from high-income countries we focus not...
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This paper examines the effectiveness of remittances and official development assistance (ODA) in developing countries. It compares the outcomes of aid poured into the economies of the Third World for decades without any visible effect and remittances transferred by emigrants to their countries...
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