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Employment Effects of Dispersal Policies on Refugee Immigrants, Part II: Empirical Evidence

Damm, Anna Piil; Rosholm, Michael - 2003

into relocation to another municipality by joint estimation of the duration of the first non-employment spell and time … relocations were carried out to improve employment prospects, or they were carried out to improve place utility and thereby lower …

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Smuggling Humans: A Theory of Debt-Financed Migration

Friebel, Guido; Guriev, Sergei - 2004

We introduce financial constraints in a theoretical analysis of illegal immigration. Intermediaries finance the … deportation policies worsen the skill composition of immigrants. While stricter border controls decrease overall immigration, they …

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Labor Mobility, Trade and Social Capital

Schiff, Maurice - 2004

Labor market integration raises welfare in the absence of distortions. This paper examines labor and goods market integration in a general equilibrium model with social capital. The findings are: i) labor market integration has an ambiguous impact on welfare, and raises it if the goods produced...

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Identification and Estimation of Economic Models of Outmigration Using Panel Attrition

Bellemare, Charles - 2004

Because their departures are difficultly observed, little is known about the performance of immigrants who leave a region and move to another. This paper shows conditions under which the (conditional) outmigration probability, work probability and the expected earnings of outmigrants are...

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The Political Economy of Social Exclusion with Implications for Immigration Policy

Gradstein, Mark; Schiff, Maurice - 2004

Minorities, such as ethnic and immigration groups, have often been subject to exclusion through labor market … discrimination, residential and employment segregation policies, business ownership regulations, restrictions on political … analysis also has implications for immigration policies which have to take this group dynamics into account. …

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Migration and Diversity : Human versus Social Capital

Manole, Vlad; Schiff, Maurice - 2004

This paper examines the welfare implications associated with different degrees of diversity or similarity between migrants and natives under both migration and trade. We use a general equilibrium model of migration, human capital and social capital and find that there are three equilibrium...

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How Outsourcing Affects Bilateral Political Relations

Polachek, Solomon W. - 2004

One issue the literature neglects is how outsourcing stimulates trade (imports, exports and foreign direct investment), thereby affecting political relations. However, at least as far back as 1750, economic philosophers such as Baron de Montesquieu in his L?Esprit des Lois, argued, ?peace is the...

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When Migrants Overstay Their Legal Welcome : A Proposed Solution to the Guest-Worker Program

Schiff, Maurice - 2004

be beneficial for all parties concerned. It presents a host country immigration policy that tries to achieve these …

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Immigration und Arbeitsmarkt: Eine oekonomische Perspektive

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1998

the labor market. Its impact on employment, wages and wealth depends crucially on the design of immigration policy …Based on the current European discussion about immigration policy, this paper gives an overview of central economic … consequences of immigration for a host country?s labor market. The most important theoretical arguments are presented and evaluated …

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Are Immigrants Favorably Self-Selected? An Economic Analysis

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2000

rationing immigration visas (demand) will influence the favorable selectivity of those who actually immigrate. Selection …

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