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Immigration Policy and Entrepreneurship
Mahuteau, Stéphane; Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimilano; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia’s immigration policy, introduced inthe mid-1990s, on migrants’ probability of becoming entrepreneurs. The policy changeconsists of stricter entry requirements and restrictions to welfare entitlements. The resultsindicate that those who...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486982
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Self-selection and the performance of return migrants: the source country perspective
De Coulon, Augustin; Piracha, Matloob - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003
In this paper, using the framework of a Roy theoretical model, we examine the performance of return migrants in Albania. We ask two main questions: (i) Had they chosen not to migrate, what would be the performance of return migrants compared to the non-migrants? and (ii) What would be the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746106
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The Impact of Migration on Child Labor: Theory and Evidence from Brazil
Genicot, Garance; Mayda, Anna Maria; Mendola, Mariapia - 2016
This paper investigates the impact of internal migration on child labor outcomes in Brazil. We develop a theoretical … model and evaluate it on children aged 10 to 14 using two decades of Census data. In our model, migration impacts child … individual-level child-labor analysis with an empirical study of the labor-market impact of internal migration within Brazil. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653172
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Ethnic Networks and International Trade
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2004
There is a well-established high quality literature on the role of networks, particularly ethnic networks, in international trade. Ethnic networks are a way of overcoming informal barriers (information costs, risk and uncertainty) to trade by building trust and substituting for the difficulty of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261988
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The Influence of Others on Migration Plans
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2004
roles ?other people? play in influencing an individual?s potential migration decision. In analyzing the influence of others … on migration decisions, we rely on the concepts of migration networks and herd effects. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261996
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High Skilled Migration and the Exertion of Effort by the Local Population
Epstein, Gil S.; Kunze, Astrid; Ward, Melanie E. - 2002
The design of optimal immigration policy, particularly in the face of the spiralling demand for highly skilled workers, such as IT workers and engineers, is a topical issue in the policy debate as well as the economic literature. In this paper, we present empirical evidence from firm level data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262704
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Informational Cascades and Decision to Migrate
Epstein, Gil S. - 2002
We introduce the idea that informational cascades can explain the observed regularity that emigrants from the same locations also tend to choose the same foreign locations. Thus informational cascades generate herd behavior. Herd behavior is compared with the network externalities explanation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262802
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Migrants, ethnicity and strategic assimilation
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2006
Ethnic networks are a way of overcoming informal barriers to trade such as information costs, risk, and uncertainty by building trust and by substituting for the difficulty of enforcing contracts internationally. We study networks which emerge from the interaction (i) between migrants and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266350
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Immigration Policy and Entrepreneurship
Mahuteau, Stéphane; Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced in the mid-1990s, on migrants' probability of becoming entrepreneurs. The policy change consists of stricter entry requirements and restrictions to welfare entitlements. The results indicate that those who...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009403371
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Immigration policy and entrepreneurship
Mahuteau, Stéphane; Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano; … - 2011
This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced in the mid-1990s, on migrants' probability of becoming entrepreneurs. The policy change consists of stricter entry requirements and restrictions to welfare entitlements. The results indicate that those who...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286897