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| nep-mig | New EconomicsPapers |
| on Economics of Human Migration |
| Issue of 2016‒10‒09
seventeen papers chosen by
Yuji Tamura
La Trobe University
http://econpapers.repec.org/pta90
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- Climatic Factors as Determinantsof International Migration: ReduxMichel
Beine; Christopher R.Parsons
- Does working abroad affectpolitical opinions? Evidence from
MoldovaRuxandaBerlinschi
- Do migrants think differently?Evidence from East European and post-Soviet
statesRuxandaBerlinschi; Ani Harutyunyan
- Natives and migrants in homeproduction: The case of GermanyForlani,
Emanuele; Lodigiani,Elisabetta; Mendolicchio, Concetta
- Location Choices of ChineseMultinationals in Europe: The Role of Overseas
CommunitiesBasKarreman; Martijn J. Burger; Frank G. van Oort
- The price of sharing: support foruniversal and equal access to health care
in diversifyingneighborhoodsNeundorf, Anja; Cavaille, Charlotte
- Estimating the economic effects ofremittances on the left-behind in
CambodiaVutha Hing; PHANNDalis; Roth T.M.S Vathana; Sreymom Sum
- Immigrant Crime and Legal Status:Evidence from Repeated Amnesty
ProgramsFasani,Francesco
- The Impact of Offshoring andMigration Policies on Migration FlowsCosimo
Beverelli; GianlucaOrefice; Nadia Rocha
- Time, Space and Skills inDesigning Migration PolicyMichal Burzynski
- Third Country Effect of Migration:the Trade-Migration Nexus RevisitedErik
Figueiredo; Luiz RenatoLima; Gianluca Orefice
- Immigrant Birthcountry Networksand Unemployment Duration: Evidence around
the GreatRecessionMundra, Kusum; Rios-Avila, Fernando
- Immigration and the UK:Reflections After BrexitMarco Alfano; Christian
Dustmann;Tommaso Frattini
- Brexit and the UK labourmarketBarbara Petrongolo
- Migration, remittances, labourmarket and human capital in SenegalAmeth
Saloum Ndiaye; OumoulKhayri NIANG; Sessinou DEDEHOUANOU; Ya Cor NDIONE
- On the Economics and Politics ofRefugee MigrationChristian Dustmann;
Francesco Fasani; TommasoFrattini; Luigi Minale; Uta SchÓ§nberg
- Immigration Policy andMacroeconomic Performance in FranceHippolyte
D'Albis; EkrameBoubtane; Dramane Coulibaly
- Climatic Factorsas Determinants of International Migration: Redux
| Date: | 2016 |
| By: | Michel Beine (CREA, Université du Luxembourg) ; Christopher R.
Parsons (University of Western Australia) |
| In this paper, we revisit the issue of environmental changeas a
potential determinant of international migration, thereby providing anextension
of our earlier paper. In contrast to Beine and Parsons (2015) and inlight of
recent empirical contributions, we adopt an alternative identificationstrategy
in which we only include fixed effects together with our measures ofclimatic
change in order to quantify the net partial effect of climatic changeon
bilateral migration. Again drawing on panel data from 1960-2000, we
furtherexploit the dyadic dimension of our data to highlight the importance
ofneighbouring countries and former colonial powers in determining the
directionof climate-induced emigration. We additionally highlight the
importance of howdifferences in modelling climate change can lead to differing
results. Ourbaseline results suggest that climatic change affects individuals’
creditconstraints more than their desire to move. Our key findings are that
naturaldisasters deter emigration from all origin countries but importantly
spuremigration to neighbouring countries while for middle income origins,
naturaldisasters while deterring migration, foster emigration to former
colonialpowers. |
| Keywords: | International Migration, Environmentalchange; Natural
disasters |
| JEL: | F22J61 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:luc:wpaper:16-11&r=mig ;|
- Does workingabroad affect political opinions? Evidence fromMoldova
| Date: | 2016 |
| By: | Ruxanda Berlinschi |
| This paper investigates the effects of work experienceabroad on
political opinions using survey data from Moldova, a former sovietrepublic
caught in an ideological battle between Russia and the West, with
highemigration rates to both destinations. Contrarily to studies conducted in
Africaor Latin America, we find no effect of past migration on
democraticparticipation or on critical governance assessment. Likewise, no
effect is foundon domestic policy preferences. The one dimension strongly
associated withmigration experience is geopolitical preference, whereby return
migrants fromformer Soviet countries are more likely to support closer ties
with Russia,while return migrants from Western countries show higher support
for EUintegration, controlling for economic, demographic and ethnic
confoundingfactors. For identification, we instrument individual migration with
districtlevel migrant networks. IV regressions show that only work experience
in Westerncountries affects geopolitical preferences. |
| Keywords: | return migration, political opinions,Moldova, survey
data |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ete:licosp:551453&r=mig ;|
- Do migrants thinkdifferently? Evidence from East European and
post-Sovietstates
| Date: | 2016 |
| By: | Ruxanda Berlinschi ; AniHarutyunyan |
| This research analyzes differences in values and beliefsbetween
individuals in European and post-Soviet states who intend to emigrateand those
who do not. In particular, we investigate which political, economicand social
values and beliefs are significant determinants of the intention toemigrate,
after controlling for relevant socio-economic and demographicconfounding
factors. The results indicate that self-selection patterns exist insome
dimensions, such as evaluation of home country governance and
institutions,political participation and trust in other people, while they are
absent inother dimensions, such as economic liberalism, views on democracy and
freemarkets. Results also indicate that migrant self-selection patterns
areheterogeneous across regions. This analysis aims to improve our
understanding ofthe determinants of emigration, as well as of its possible
consequences on thedynamics of governance and institutions. |
| Keywords: | Migration determinants, Culture, Transitioneconomies |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ete:licosp:551444&r=mig ;|
- Natives andmigrants in home production: The case of Germany
| Date: | 2016-10-04 |
| By: | Forlani, Emanuele ; Lodigiani, Elisabetta ; Mendolicchio,
Concetta (Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- undBerufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg
[Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg,Germany]) |
| In this paper, we assess the impact of internationalmigration, and the
induced home-care service labour supply shock, on fertilitydecisions and labour
supply of native females in Germany Specifcally, weconsider individual data of
native women from the German Socio-Economic Paneland we merge them with the
data on the share of female immigrants and otherregional labour market
characteristics We fnd that an increase of the share offemale immigrants at the
local level induces women to work longer hours andpositively afects the
probability to have a child This efect strengthens for(medium) skilled women
and, among them, for women younger than 35 years of ageThe negative change in
household work attitude confrms the behavioural validityof our results. |
| JEL: | J13 J22 J61 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:iab:iabdpa:201628&r=mig ;|
- Location Choicesof Chinese Multinationals in Europe: The Role of
OverseasCommunities
| Date: | 2016-09-30 |
| By: | Bas Karreman (Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus
UniversityRotterdam, The Netherlands) ; Martijn J. Burger (Erasmus School of
Economics, Erasmus UniversityRotterdam, The Netherlands) ; FrankG. van Oort
(Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, TheNetherlands) |
| Overseas Chinese communities are an important determinant inthe
location choice of greenfield investments made by mainland Chinesemultinational
enterprises across European regions. Conceptually embedded in arelational
approach, this effect is shown through an empirical analysis of anexhaustive
set of investment projects across NUTS-1 regions in 26 Europeancountries for
the period 2003-2010. When controlling for endogeneity bias andthe embeddedness
of existing Chinese economic activity, we find that theimportance of overseas
communities in the location choices of Chinese firms isbased on increased
access to strategic information. Our results confirm that therelationship
between the size of an overseas Chinese community and theprobability of Chinese
investment is stronger for communities hosting newergenerations of Chinese
migrants; in addition, they partially corroborate thatthis relationship is
stronger when the education level of the community’sChinese migrants is higher.
Our findings are particularly robust in the contextof knowledge-intensive
sectors and high value-added functions. |
| Keywords: | Overseas Chinesecommunities; China; Europe; greenfield
FDI; relational view |
| JEL: | F20 L20 R30 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:tin:wpaper:20160078&r=mig ;|
- The price ofsharing: support for universal and equal access to health care
in diversifyingneighborhoods
| Date: | 2016-09-30 |
| By: | Neundorf, Anja ; Cavaille, Charlotte |
| Is immigration undermining mass support for the welfarestate? While an
increase in the number of immigrants might not impact thewillingness to fund
existing universal programmes such as health care, it canundermine the
normative commitment to universal and equal access to care. Thesenorms are key
to the support public health care systems usually command. UsingBritish panel
data matched to contextual data from the 1991 and 2001 censuses,we show that
individuals who experience an increase in the share of foreign bornin their
neighborhood become less likely to support universal access to healthcare. |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ese:iserwp:2016-10&r=mig ;|
- Estimating theeconomic effects of remittances on the left-behind
inCambodia
| Date: | 2015 |
| By: | Vutha Hing ; PHANNDalis ; Roth T.M.S Vathana ; SreymomSum |
| Using propensity score matching with the 2009 CambodiaSocio-Economic
Survey of households, this study examines the effects ofremittances on
indicators of household wellbeing: poverty, consumption andlabour participation
of non-migrant members. The theoretical framework is builtupon a “new economics
of labour migration”, hypothesising that theemigration decision is jointly
determined by households and individual migrantsand that remittances basically
represent a form of contractual arrangementsbetween them. The results indicate
that households with at least one migrantmember and which receive remittances
could reduce their poverty headcount rateby 3-7 percentage points vis-à-vis
their matched controls. Remittances alsoreduce depth and severity of poverty of
treated households. On the contrary,remittances generate a 5-9 percent
“dependency effect” on working age adultswho are employed due to reduced weekly
hours worked. The impact of remittanceson labour participation and salary
income is, however, vulnerable tounobservable factors. |
| Keywords: | Remittances, Propensity Score Matching,Cambodia,
Poverty, Labour Participation, New Economics of Labour
Migration,Migrant-sending households |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:lvl:pmmacr:2015-06&r=mig ;|
- Immigrant Crimeand Legal Status: Evidence from Repeated AmnestyPrograms
| Date: | 2016-09 |
| By: | Fasani, Francesco (Queen Mary, University of London) |
| Do general amnesty programs lead to reductions in the crimerate among
immigrants? We answer this question by exploiting bothcross-sectional and time
variation in the number of immigrants legalizedgenerated by the enactment of
repeated amnesty programs between 1990 and 2005 inItaly. We address the
potential endogeneity of the "legalization treatment" byinstrumenting the
actual number of legalized immigrants with alternativepredicted measures based
on past amnesty applications patterns and residentialchoices of documented and
undocumented immigrants. We find that, in the yearfollowing an amnesty, regions
in which a higher share of immigrants obtainedlegal status experienced a
greater decline in non-EU immigrant crime rates,relative to other regions. The
effect is statistically significant butrelatively small and not persistent. In
further results, we fail to find anyevidence of substitution in the criminal
market from other population groups -namely, EU immigrants and Italian citizens
- and we observe a small and notpersistent reduction in total offenses. |
| Keywords: | illegal migration, legalization, migrationpolicy |
| JEL: | F22 J61 K37 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:iza:izadps:dp10235&r=mig ;|
- The Impact ofOffshoring and Migration Policies on MigrationFlows
| Date: | 2016-09 |
| By: | Cosimo Beverelli ; Gianluca Orefice ; NadiaRocha |
| In a theoretical framework that extends Ottaviano et al.(2013) to three
countries, we investigate two research questions. First, whetheroffshore
workers directly compete with migrants from the same origin country toperform
tasks of low/medium complexity (migration-offshoring substitutability).Second,
whether migrants from different origin countries compete among eachother
(migration diversion). These questions are addressed empirically using adataset
covering 28 OECD high-income countries (as destinations of migrantsflows) and
144 non high-income countries (as origins of migrant flows) for theperiod
1996-2010. The empirical results suggest strong direct substitutabilitybetween
migrant and offshore workers from the same origin country and theabsence of
policy driven migration diversion across different origincountries. |
| Keywords: | MigrantEmployment;Migration-Offshoring
Substitutability;MigrationDiversion |
| JEL: | F22F23 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cii:cepidt:2016-21&r=mig ;|
- Time, Space andSkills in Designing Migration Policy
| Date: | 2016 |
| By: | Michal Burzynski (CREA, Université du Luxembourg) |
| This paper proposes a multi-country model of internationalmigration in
which college-educated workers choose their destination country,preferred type
of visa, and the optimal duration of stay. Combining theseelements into a
unified theoretical framework provides a micro-foundation forthe multilateral
resistance to migration. The proposed theory is applied toinvestigate the
global implications of decreasing the costs of six-year visasfor highly skilled
professionals in the EU, calibrated as an introduction of H1Bvisas. This is
compared with a policy of reducing income tax for medium-term,college-educated,
foreign workers. The two counterfactuals indicate asignificant rise in the
yearly inflows and total stocks of highly skilledimmigrants into the EU. The
outcomes of the former policy are driven by a“visa-substitution” effect within
the group of current emigrants, while thelatter scenario results in an increase
in the pool of international migrants.Both policies induce a
“destination-substitution” effect—losses of skilledmigrants by non-EU states,
which is reinforced by a multilateral resistance tomigration. |
| Keywords: | migration policy,temporary migration, discrete choice
models, H1B visas |
| JEL: | F22J61 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:luc:wpaper:16-12&r=mig ;|
- Third CountryEffect of Migration: the Trade-Migration NexusRevisited
| Date: | 2016-09 |
| By: | Erik Figueiredo ; LuizRenato Lima ; Gianluca Orefice |
| This paper proposes a new channel through which migrants canaffect the
import demand of the host country. In migrating from origin todestination
country, migrants observe a change in the prices of the bundle ofconsumable
goods. In particular, the migration decision can reflect a reductionin the
price of imported goods (due to lower applied tariff) for the consumptionbundle
of migrants: emigration towards less (tariff) protected countries allowsthe
consumption of products that were prohibitively protected in the
origincountries of migrants. To test this channel we estimate the import demand
effectof migrant groups coming from third high (tariff) protected countries. We
use atheory-grounded gravity estimations and a fresh econometric techniques
able toaddress both the zero migration flows problem and the endogeneity of
migrants.Our results suggest that such a third-country immigrant effect is
significantand positive. |
| Keywords: | Trade-Migration;Third-CountryEffect;Quantile
Regression;Imputation |
| JEL: | F14 C21 C36 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cii:cepidt:2016-22&r=mig ;|
- ImmigrantBirthcountry Networks and Unemployment Duration: Evidence around
the GreatRecession
| Date: | 2016-09 |
| By: | Mundra, Kusum (Rutgers University) ; Rios-Avila, Fernando
(Levy Economics Institute) |
| Using data from the CPS this paper examines the role ofbirth-country
networks on immigrants' unemployment duration from 2001 to 2013.We find that
networks significantly lower unemployment duration for allimmigrants. Varying
the effect of networks over duration categories we find thatnetworks are more
effective in lowering duration for immigrants unemployed for1-2 months than
immigrants who are unemployed for longer periods and this effectis further
strengthened during the post recession period. This supports theCalvo-Armengol
and Jackson hypothesis which posits that longer the agent isunemployed, less
effective are her social networks in job search. Our findingsare robust to
different specifications. |
| Keywords: | social networks, immigrants,unemployment duration, Great
Recession |
| JEL: | J61 J64 D10 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:iza:izadps:dp10233&r=mig ;|
- Immigration andthe UK: Reflections After Brexit
| Date: | 2016-09-28 |
| By: | Marco Alfano (University of Strathclyde) ; Christian Dustmann
(University College London) ; Tommaso Frattini (University of Milan) |
| This paper describes the main features of immigration in theUK, and
puts it in perspective with the experience of other advanced economies.It then
reviews the most recent available evidence on the labour market andfiscal
effects of immigration in the UK. This evidence is assessed in relationto some
of the claims that were made in the run up to the Brexitreferendum. |
| Keywords: | Immigration, Brexit, labour market impact,fiscal impact |
| JEL: | J31 J61 J68 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:csl:devewp:402&r=mig ;|
- Brexit and the UKlabour market
| Date: | 2016-10 |
| By: | Barbara Petrongolo |
| Following the referendum vote to leave the European Union,the UK faces
a trade-off between retaining access to the Single Market andrestricting free
movement of labour. Barbara Petrongolo considers the likelyimpact of tougher
immigration controls on the wages and employment prospects ofthe UK-born and
the current stock of immigrants. |
| Keywords: | Brexit, EU Referendum, UK economy,immigration, labour
market |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cep:cepcnp:478&r=mig ;|
- Migration,remittances, labour market and human capital inSenegal
| Date: | 2016 |
| By: | Ameth Saloum Ndiaye ; Oumoul Khayri NIANG ; Sessinou
DEDEHOUANOU ; Ya CorNDIONE |
| This study investigates how migration and remittances affectlabour
market participation in Senegal. Further, it examines the effect ofremittances
on human capital development. The results reveal that migration andremittances
reduce labour market participation of household members withmigrants. More
importantly, we find that the labour market participation dependsnegatively on
the level of remittances, which supports the reservation wagetheory. We also
find that remittances increase expenditures on human capitaldevelopment, as
approximated by education and health spending. These findingshold true across
specifications and econometric estimation procedures. |
| Keywords: | migration, remittances,labour market participation,
human capital, Senegal |
| JEL: | F22 F24 J21 J24 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:lvl:pmmacr:2016-10&r=mig ;|
- On the Economicsand Politics of Refugee Migration
| Date: | 2016-09-28 |
| By: | Christian Dustmann (University College London) ; Francesco
Fasani (Queen Mary University London) ; Tommaso Frattini (University of Milan)
; LuigiMinale (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) ; UtaSchÓ§nberg (University
College London) |
| This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of refugeemigration, with
emphasis on the current refugee crisis. After first reviewingthe institutional
framework laid out by the Geneva Convention for Refugees, wedemonstrate that,
despite numerous attempts at developing a common Europeanasylum policy, EU
countries continue to differ widely in interpretation andimplementation. We
then describe key features of the current refugee crisis anddocument the
overall magnitudes and types of refugee movements, illegal bordercrossings, and
asylum applications to EU member states. We next turn to theeconomics of
refugee migrations, contrasting economic and refugee migrants,discussing the
trade-offs between long-term asylum and temporary protection, andhighlighting
the economic advantages of increasingly coordinating the differentnational
asylum policies. Finally, we illustrate the economic integration ofpast refugee
migrants to EU countries and conclude with several policyrecommendations. |
| Keywords: | asylum policy, asylum seekers, refugeecrisis |
| JEL: | F22 J15 J61 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:csl:devewp:403&r=mig ;|
- ImmigrationPolicy and Macroeconomic Performance in France
| Date: | 2015-02 |
| By: | Hippolyte D'Albis (CES - Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne -
UP1 -Université Panthéon-Sorbonne - CNRS - Centre National de la
RechercheScientifique, PSE - Paris School of Economics) ; EkrameBoubtane (CERDI
- Centre d'études et de recherches sur le developpementinternational -
Université d'Auvergne - Clermont-Ferrand I - CNRS - CentreNational de la
Recherche Scientifique, CES - Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne -UP1 -
Université Panthéon-Sorbonne - CNRS - Centre National de la
RechercheScientifique) ; Dramane Coulibaly (EconomiX - UPOND - Université Paris
OuestNanterre La Défense - CNRS - Centre National de la RechercheScientifique) |
| This paper quantitatively assesses the interaction betweenpermanent
immigration into France and France's macroeconomic performance as seenthrough
its GDP per capita and its unemployment rate. It takes advantage of anew
database where immigration is measured by the flow of newly-issued
long-termresidence permits, categorized by both the nationality of the
immigrant and thereason of permit issuance. Using a VAR model estimation of
monthly data over theperiod 1994-2008, we find that immigration flow
significantly responds toFrance's macroeconomic performance: positively to the
country's GDP per capitaand negatively to its unemployment rate. At the same
time, we find thatimmigration itself increases France's GDP per capita,
particularly in the caseof family immigration. This family immigration also
reduces the country'sunemployment rate, especially when the families come from
developingcountries. |
| Keywords: | VARmodels,immigration,female and family
migration,growth,unemployment |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-01162441&r=mig ;
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