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Migration and globalization : what's in it for developing countries?

Rapoport, Hillel - 2016

This paper reviews a growing literature on migration and globalization, focusing on its relevance for developing and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011518125

Regional migration and wage inequality in the West African Economic and Monetary Union

Girsberger, Esther Mirjam; Méango, Romuald; Rapoport, … - 2018

We investigate the impact of regional migration on average wages and on wage inequality in the West African Economic … migrants in absence of migration to evaluate the effect of regional migration when the effect of migration is purely … compositional (i.e., when wages are treated as exogenous). We find that regional migration increases average wages by 1.8% and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011959449

Heaven's swing door : endogenous skills, migration networks and the effectiveness of quality-selective immigration policies

Bertoli, Simone; Rapoport, Hillel - 2013

view tends to neglect two important dynamic effects: the role of migration networks, which could reduce immigrants' quality …, and the responsiveness of education decisions to the prospects of migration. Our model shows that migration networks and … immigration policies, the initial pattern of migrants' self-selection on education, and the way time-equivalent migration costs by …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010221705

In-group cooperation in a hostile environment : an economic perspective on some aspects of Jewish life in (pre-modern) diaspora

Rapoport, Hillel; Weiss, Avi - 2002

The demographic history of the Jews in the Middle Ages may be characterized by two main phenomena: i) a sharp drop in the number of Jews until the beginning of the modern period, due mainly to conversions; and, ii) early urbanization. Until now, these features have been analyzed as primarily...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411192

The effect of language training on immigrants' economic integration : empirical evidence from France

Lochmann, Alexa; Rapoport, Hillel; Speciale, Biagio - 2018

We examine the impact of language training on the economic integration of immigrants in France. The assignment to this training, offered by the French Ministry of the Interior, depends mainly on a precise rule: the training is provided if the test score of an initial language exam is below a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011798168

Minimum wages and the labor market effects of immigration

Edo, Anthony; Rapoport, Hillel - 2018

This paper exploits the non-linearity in the level of minimum wages across U.S. States created by the coexistence of federal and state regulations to investigate the labor market effects of immigration. We find that the impact of immigration on the wages and employment of native workers within a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011904885

The optimal size for a minority

Rapoport, Hillel; Weiss, Avi - 2001

We investigate a setting in which members of a population, bifurcated into a majority and a minority, transact with randomly matched partners. All members are uniformly altruistic, and each transaction can be carried out cooperatively or through a market mechanism, with cooperative transactions...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401110

Remittances and the brain drain revisited : the microdata show that more educated migrants remit more

Bollard, Albert; McKenzie, David J.; Morten, Melanie; … - 2009

Two of the most salient trends surrounding the issue of migration and development over the last two decades are the … large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross …-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit less, leading to concerns that further increases in skilled migration …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003909197

Remittances, migrants' education and immigration policy : theory and evidence from bilateral data

Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel; Salomone, Sara - 2011

-selective. These predictions are then tested empirically using bilateral remittance and migration data and proxy measures for the …' education. -- remittances ; migration ; brain drain ; immigration policy …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009519903

Globalization, brain drain and development

Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel - 2011

high-skill) migration is becoming the dominant pattern of international migration and a major aspect of globalization. We … migration ; globalization …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009235188