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Essays on international migration and informal markets in developing countries
Böhme, Marcus - 2013
: migration and informal markets. To mitigate the problems of both migration and the informal sector, and harness their … international migration and household investments addressing the problem of brain drain and the use of remittances. Es... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010223163
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Economic Liberalisation and the Mobility of Minority Groups: Evidence from Māori in New Zealand
Sin, Isabelle; Stillman, Steven - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Between 1984 and 2003, New Zealand undertook comprehensive market-oriented economic reforms. In this paper, we use Census data to examine how the internal mobility of Māori compares to that of Europeans in New Zealand in the period after these reforms. It is often suggested that Māori are less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011195825
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The new economics of the brain drain
Stark, Oded - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
For nearly four decades now, the conventional wisdom has been that the migration of human capital (skilled workers … not hold. A well designed migration policy can result in a “brain gain” to the developing country rather than in just a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021969
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Natural Experiment Evidence on the Effect of Migration on Blood Pressure and Hypertension
Gibson, John; Stillman, Steven; McKenzie, David Mckenzie; … - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2010
to where wages are higher. But the effect of this migration on health is less clear and existing evidence is ambiguous … unsuccessful applicants to a migration lottery to experimentally estimate the impact of migration on measured blood pressure and … to migration. We use various econometric estimators to form bounds on the treatment effects since there appears to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009317963
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Natural Experiment Evidence on the Effect of Migration on Blood Pressure and Hypertension
Gibson, John; Stillman, Steven; McKenzie, David; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
to where wages are higher. But the effect of this migration on health is less clear and existing evidence is ambiguous … unsuccessful applicants to a migration lottery to experimentally estimate the impact of migration on measured blood pressure and … to migration. We use various econometric estimators to form bounds on the treatment effects since there appears to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008682958
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A land of milk and honey with streets paved with gold: Do emigrants have over-optimistic expectations about incomes abroad?
McKenzie, David; Gibson, John; Stillman, Steven - In: Journal of Development Economics 102 (2013) C, pp. 116-127
-optimistic expectations about the incomes they can earn abroad suggest excessive migration pressure. Yet there is almost no statistical … incomes in the migration destination. Our procedure enables us to obtain moments and quantiles of the subjective distribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010666283
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The dynamics of inequality change in a highly dualistic economy: Honduras, 1991-2007
Klasen, Stephan; Otter, Thomas; Barría, Carlos Villalobos - Ibero-Amerika Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (IAI), … - 2012
We examine the drivers of inequality change in Honduras between 1991-2007, trying to understand why inequality increased in Honduras until 2005, while it was falling in most other Latin American countries. Using annual household surveys, we document first rising inequality between 1991-2005,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009649697
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Geography vs. institutions at the village level
Grimm, Michael; Klasen, Stephan - Center for European, Governance and Economic … - 2008
There is a well-known debate about the roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long-term development of countries. These debates have usually been based on cross-country regressions where questions about parameter heterogeneity, unobserved heterogeneity, and endogeneity cannot...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010954313
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Economic liberalisation and the mobility of minority groups: Evidence from Māori in New Zealand
Sin, Isabelle; Stillman, Steven - In: IZA Journal of Migration 5 (2016) 4, pp. 1-18
Between 1984 and 1993, New Zealand undertook comprehensive market-oriented economic reforms. In this paper, we use census data to examine how the internal mobility of M¯aori compares to that of Europeans in New Zealand in the period after these reforms. It is often suggested that M¯aori are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011586055
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Global integration and world migration
Stark, Oded - 2017
strengthens their inclination to resort to migration as a means of reducing this heightened stress. Other things held constant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011602882