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We study the long-run growth impact on the emigrants' country of origin of a change in immigration policy implemented by the host country. The policy change takes the form of an increase in the ratio of temporary to permanent visas issued. This policy change has two counteracting effects on the...

[fre] Manon Domingues Dos Santos Immigration et chômage. Cette contribution propose une synthèse des travaux théoriques et empiriques étudiant l'incidence de l'immigration sur le chômage. Dans une première partie, nous analysons la situation relative des travailleurs immigrés et...

[eng] The 2003 Survey on Immigrants’ Transition to Retirement helps one to understand why Portuguese residents in France express intentions to return to their home country in twice the proportion of their Spanish and Italian counterparts. Community differences in educational attainment,...

The aim of this paper is to study the impact of labour migration on unemployment dynamics when labour markets are non competitive. We consider a dynamic model with two regions where wages are locally negotiated at the firm level. We show that, in the long run, labour migration does not affect...

This paper analyses the dynamics of migratory flows and growth in a developing economy. We show that when workers freely choose their location, some natives can rationally decide to return to their home country after they have accumulated a certain amount of knowledge abroad, while some prefer...

Cet article étudie l’impact de l’exode des cerveaux sur le bien-être des travailleurs de la région de départ lorsque celle-ci peut bénéficier des avancées technologiques de la région d’accueil, par un processus d’imitation, et que les émigrés envoient une partie de leur revenu...

In this paper, we study the impact of parental human capital background on ethnic educational gaps between second-generation immigrants using a large data set conducted in France in 2003. Estimates from censored random effect ordered Probit regressions show that the skills of immigrants explain...

The social sciences have produced both theoretically and empirically a large literature in order to explain why urban areas are socially differentiated, and also the consequences of this urban specialization on several economic and social variables. But the major part of all these works is...