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Challenged by migration : Europe's options

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2017

This paper examines the migration and labor mobility in the European Union and elaborates on their importance for the … that migration is beneficial is broken. This comes with a crisis of European institutions in general. Migration and labor … survive or collapse even if it solves its migration challenge. But it will most likely collapse, if it fails to solve the …

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Chapter 12. The Refugee/Asylum Seeker

Chin, Aimee; Cortes, Kalena E. - In: Handbook of the economics of international migration : …, (pp. 585-658). 2015

This chapter discusses the research in economics on refugees and asylum seekers. Section 1 describes the trends in asylum seeking by source and host country. Section 2 presents a conceptual framework on why refugees might differ from other types of immigrants, and provides a new analysis...

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Preferences for redistribution and international migration

Kauppinen, Ilpo; Poutvaara, Panu - 2020

Are migrants self-selected and sorted according to their views about what constitutes a fair level of redistribution? A major challenge in answering this question is that fairness concerns and self-interest are intertwined. We present a theoretical framework that allows us to test whether...

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Preferences for redistribution and international migration

Kauppinen, Ilpo; Poutvaara, Panu - 2018

The Tiebout hypothesis suggests that people who migrate from more to less redistributive countries are more negative towards redistribution than non-migrants. However, differences between migrants' and non-migrants' redistributive preferences might also reflect self-interest. We present a model...

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Ethnicity and the immigration of highly skilled workers to the United States

Jasso, Guillermina - 2009

proportions in EB-2 and EB-3 sent remittances than in the cohort overall. (6) A little measure of assimilation - using dollars to …

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Estimating immigrant earnings profiles when migrations are temporary

Dustmann, Christian; Görlach, Joseph-Simon - 2016

selective out-migration literature, our basic structure assumes that the process that determines out-migration is unrelated to …

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The healthy immigrant paradox and health convergence

Constant, Amelie - 2017

the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper we are concerned with international migration and health outcomes in … insights into the Healthy Immigrant Paradox and the health assimilation of immigrants as we also elucidate selection and … measurement challenges. While health is part of human capital, health assimilation is the mirror image of earnings assimilation …

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The healthy immigrant paradox and health convergence

Constant, Amelie - 2017

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Aging, factor returns, and immigration policy

Calahorrano, Lena; Lorz, Oliver - 2009

In this note we analyze how aging affects immigration policy. We set up a dynamic political-economy model of representative democracy in which the government of the destination country sets the immigration level to maximize aggregate welfare of the constituency. Aging, i.e. a decline in the...

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Illegal Migration, Enforcement and Minimum Wage

Epstein, Gil S. - 2007

This paper examines the connection between illegal migration, minimum wages and enforcement policy. We first explore … local workers. We conclude by considering the optimal migration policy taking into consideration social welfare issues …

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