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| nep-mig | New EconomicsPapers |
| on Economics of Human Migration |
| Issue of 2017‒01‒15
ten papers chosen by
Yuji Tamura
La Trobe University
http://econpapers.repec.org/pta90
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- Family Size, Sibling Rivalry andMigration: Evidence from
MexicoMassimiliano, Bratti; Simona,Fiore; Mariapia, Mendola;
- Assigning refugees to landlords inSweden: stable maximum
matchingsANDERSSON, Tommy; EHLERS,Lars
- Let Tiebout pick up the tab:Pricing out externalities with free
mobilityHirokiWatanabe
- Migrant Intentions to Return: TheRole of Migrant Social NetworksCatia
Batista; FrancescoCestari
- Assessing the role of socialnetworks on migrant labor market outcomes:
Evidence from a representativeimmigrant surveyCatia Batista; Ana Isabel Costa
- Who is this, who enters there? -Migration in Italy and its effect on
fiscal sustainability andpensionsBendetta Frassi; Christian Hagist;
FabioPammolli
- The evolution of immigrants'homeownership in GermanyIhley, Dorothee;
Siebert-Meyerhoff,Andrea
- On the train to brain gain inrural ChinaZhang, Yi; Matz, Julia Anna
- Physician emigration: should theystay or should they go? A policy
analysisMário Amorim Lopes;Álvaro Almeida; Bernardo Almada-Lobo
- RURAL-URBAN MIGRATION AROUNDYANGON CITY, MYANMARHtoo, Kyan; Zu, A Myint
- Family Size,Sibling Rivalry and Migration: Evidence fromMexico
| Date: | 2017-01-06 |
| By: | Massimiliano, Bratti ; Simona,Fiore ; Mariapia, Mendola ; |
| This paper examines the causal effects of family size anddemographic
structure on offspring’s international migration. We use richsurvey data from
Mexico to estimate the impact of sibship size, birth order andsibling
composition on teenagers’ and young adults’ migrationoutcomes. We find no
empirical support for the hypothesis that high fertilitydrives migration. The
positive correlation between sibship size and migrationdisappears when
endogeneity of family size is addressed using biologicalfertility
(miscarriages) and infertility shocks. Yet, the chances to migrate arenot
equally distributed across children within the family. Older
siblings,especially firstborn males, are more likely to migrate, while having
moresisters than brothers may increase the chances of migration, particularly
amonggirls. |
| Keywords: | International Migration,Mexico, Family Size, Birth
Order, Sibling Rivalry |
| JEL: | J13 F22 O15 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:mib:wpaper:358&r=mig ;|
- Assigning refugeesto landlords in Sweden: stable maximum matchings
| Date: | 2016 |
| By: | ANDERSSON, Tommy ; EHLERS,Lars |
| The member states of the European Union received 1.2 millionfirst time
asylum applications in 2015 (a doubling compared to 2014). Even ifasylum will
be granted for many of the refugees that made the journey to Europe,several
obstacles for successful integration remain. This paper focuses on oneof these
obstacles, namely the problem of finding housing for refugees once theyhave
been granted asylum. In particular, the focus is restricted to thesituation in
Sweden during 2015–2016 and it is demonstrated that market designcan play an
important role in a partial solution to the problem. Morespecifically, because
almost all accommodation options are exhausted in Sweden,the paper investigates
a matching system, closely related to the system adoptedby the European NGO
“Refugees Welcome”, and proposes an easy-to-implementalgorithm that finds a
stable maximum matching. Such matching guarantees thathousing is provided to a
maximum number of refugees and that no refugee preferssome landlord to their
current match when, at the same time, that specificlandlord prefers that
refugee to his current match. |
| Keywords: | Refugees;private landlords; forced migration; market
design; stable maximummatchings |
| JEL: | C71 C78 D71 D78 F22 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:mtl:montde:2016-08&r=mig ;|
- Let Tiebout pickup the tab: Pricing out externalities with freemobility
| Date: | 2016-12 |
| By: | Hiroki Watanabe |
| Free mobility has not been thought of as an effective toolto correct
over- or underproduction of externalities. In this paper, weestablish that foot
voting can internalize the cost of negative externalities.Workers have to
accept the wage and rent, however high or low they are inequilibrium, if they
cannot relocate. In reality, they are mobile and they caneffectively influence
the equilibrium wage and rent to reflect the externalitiesby threatening to
walk away if the current externalities are at an intolerablelevel. Firms
indirectly pay for the damage in the form of an increased labor orland cost and
thus the externalities are partially internalized in an open cityas opposed to
a closed city. We will specify the condition under which an openequilibrium is
efficient in the presence of externalities, and discuss potentialpolicy
implications of our findings. |
| Keywords: | Externality; Foot Voting; Quality of Life;Production
Economy |
| JEL: | D62 R23 R13 Q5 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wiw:wiwrsa:ersa16p134&r=mig ;|
- Migrant Intentionsto Return: The Role of Migrant Social Networks
| Date: | 2016 |
| By: | Catia Batista ; Francesco Cestari |
| Social ties are potentially an important determinant ofmigrants’
intentions to return to their home country. This relationship has,however, not
been addressed in the economics literature on internationalmigration. This
study examines the absolute and relative importance of migrantsocial networks,
at both destination and origin, on migrant return intentions.Using rich data on
social networks of immigrants, we explore the effects ofheterogeneous
characteristics of social network members on different timehorizons for return.
After controlling for unobserved heterogeneity and reversecausality biases, we
find that the social network at home seems to be the mostimportant determinant
of the migrant’s intention to return home within five toten years. JEL codes:
D8, F22, J15, J61 |
| Keywords: | International migration,Return migration, return
intentions, Social networks |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:unl:novafr:wp1602&r=mig ;|
- Assessing the roleof social networks on migrant labor market outcomes:
Evidence from arepresentative immigrant survey
| Date: | 2016 |
| By: | Catia Batista ; AnaIsabel Costa |
| What role do social networks play in determining migrantlabor market
outcomes? We examine this question using data from a random sampleof 1500
immigrants living in Ireland. We propose a theoretical model formallypredicting
that immigrants with more contacts have additional access to joboffers, and are
therefore better able to become employed and choose higher paidjobs. Our
empirical analysis confirms these findings, while focusing moregenerally on the
relationship between migrants’ social networks and a varietyof labor market
outcomes (namely wages, employment, occupational choice and jobsecurity),
contrary to the literature. We find evidence that having one morecontact in the
network is associated with an increase of 11pp in the probabilityof being
employed and with an increase of about 100 euros in the average salary.However,
our data is not suggestive of a network size effect on occupationalchoice and
job security. Our findings are robust to sample selection and otherendogeneity
concerns. JEL codes: D8, F22, J3 |
| Keywords: | Socialnetworks, International migration, Wage
determination, Labor marketintegration |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:unl:novafr:wp1601&r=mig ;|
- Who is this, whoenters there? - Migration in Italy and its effect on
fiscal sustainability andpensions
| Date: | 2017-01-02 |
| By: | Bendetta Frassi ; Christian Hagist ; FabioPammolli |
| Our paper estimates the impact of immigration on thesustainability of
the Italian public finances using the methodology ofGenerational Accounting. We
take into account socio-economic differences betweenthe main migrants’
communities resident in Italy and we present three possiblescenarios to reflect
the potential economic degree of integration of foreignersin the Italian
territory. Moreover, for each scenario we propose several optionsfor migrants
concerning both the length of permanence in Italy and the possiblecollection of
retirement benefits. Our results show that the burden of currentfiscal policy
reduces as integration of the foreign-born increases. Ifmigrants’ children are
economically perfectly integrated, the fiscal gap isreduced from 71.9 to -15.3
percent of GDP. |
| Keywords: | accounting, economic integration, generations,
migration, publicpensions, social security |
| JEL: | E62 H60 J10 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:whu:wpaper:17-01&r=mig ;|
- The evolution ofimmigrants' homeownership in Germany
| Date: | 2016 |
| By: | Ihley, Dorothee ; Siebert-Meyerhoff, Andrea |
| Recently, homeownership rates of migrants in Germanyincreased by more
than 10 percentage points. To shed light on this sharpincrease, this paper
investigates the change in homeownership rates of immigranthouseholds in
Germany between 1996 to 2005 and 2000 to 2012 respectively using aprobit-based
non-linear decomposition method. Empirical findings suggest that 50percent of
the change in immigrant's homeownership rate within the first timeperiod can be
explained by characteristics, especially by age and educationalattainment. In
the second time period, the explanatory power of characteristicsis almost zero
indicating that it is the favorable economic environment duringthat time that
is responsible for the increase in homeownership of immigranthouseholds in
Germany. |
| Keywords: | Homeownership,International Migration,Germany |
| JEL: | F22 J15 R21 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zbw:cawmdp:92&r=mig ;|
- On the train tobrain gain in rural China
| Date: | 2017-01 |
| By: | Zhang, Yi ; Matz, Julia Anna |
| This study investigates the well-researched relationshipbetween
migration and the formation of human capital in the source region usinga novel
instrument: the existence of a local train station. We make use ofChinese panel
data and of the fact that the decision to build a new trainstation is taken by
the central government and unrelated to characteristics of arural village
receiving the station. As an intermediate result we find thattrain stations are
negatively related to migration outflows, thus indicatingthat the facilitation
of local employment through economic integration outweighsthe reduction of
migratory costs. Investigating variation within villages overtime in the
instrumental variables approach for the central research question,we see a
positive effect of out-migration on educational attainment in thesource region.
Additional results suggest that the effect is stronger for maleand young
stayers. |
| Keywords: | Migration, human capital formation,instrumental
variables, China, Consumer/Household Economics, Labor and HumanCapital, D10,
I25, J61, |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:ubzefd:252443&r=mig ;|
- Physicianemigration: should they stay or should they go? A policyanalysis
| Date: | 2017-01 |
| By: | Mário Amorim Lopes (CEGI, Faculdade de Engenharia
daUniversidade do Porto, INESC-TEC) ; ÁlvaroAlmeida (CEF.UP and Faculdade de
Economia, Universidade do Porto) ; Bernardo Almada-Lobo (CEGI, Faculdade de
Engenharia daUniversidade do Porto, INESC-TEC) |
| Physician emigration can either function as an escape valveto help the
health labour market clear from a supply surplus, or aggravate theproblem
further in case of a shortage. Either way, policy-makers should beparticularly
aware and devise policies to minimize the occurrence of animbalance in the
physician workforce, which may require physician retentionpolicies if barriers
to entry and other market rigidities can not be removed. Tothis purpose we have
developed an agent-based computational economics model toanalyse physician
emigration, and used it to study the impact of potentialshort-term and
long-term retention policies. As a real case study we havecalibrated it with
data from Portugal, which features a very particular healthsystem with many
rigidities. Results show that all policies are capable ofincreasing the
workforce size, but not all reduce migration. Furthermore, thewelfare impact of
the policies varies considerably. Whether policies to retainphysicians should
be enacted or whether policy makers should let physicians gowill depend on the
type of imbalance present in the health system. |
| Keywords: | Healthcareworkforce planning; Health policy; Agent-based
computational economics;International migration; Physician migration;
International medicalgraduates |
| JEL: | I18 I19 I28 J61 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:por:fepwps:585&r=mig ;|
- RURAL-URBANMIGRATION AROUND YANGON CITY, MYANMAR
| Date: | 2016-12 |
| By: | Htoo, Kyan ; Zu, AMyint |
| Labor migration is a pervasive feature of life incontemporary Myanmar,
but has been the subject of only limited research. Most ofthis work has focused
on international migrants, leaving internal migrationcomparatively
understudied. |
| Keywords: | Community/Rural/Urban Development, |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:midamp:251852&r=mig ;|
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