Macroeconomic Determinants of Migration: The Case of Germany 1964‐1988

Karras, Georgios; Chiswick, Carmel U.

doi:10.1111/1468-2435.00089

“…al. (2000) for the United States and Canada, and Karras and Chiswick (1999) for Germany. Other studies are summarised by Bauer and Zimmermann (1999).…”

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Explaining trends in UK immigration

Hatton

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2005

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Since the 1970s Britain has gone from being a country of net emigration to one of net immigration, with a trend increase in immigration of more than 100,000 per year. This paper represents the first attempt to model the variations in net migration for British and for foreign citizens, across countries and over time. A simple economic model, which includes the selection effects of differing income distributions at home and abroad, largely accounts for the variations in the data. The results suggest that while improved economic performance in the UK relative to overseas has tended to increase immigration, rising UK inequality has had an even larger effect. Immigration policies at home and abroad have also increased net immigration, particularly in the 1990s.2

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“…See the evidence provided by SOPEMI (2003) for a number of OECD countries; for Germany see Bundesamt (2003). Micro studies indicate that up to 80 per cent of the migrants in Europe eventually return home (Dustmann, 1995(Dustmann, , 2003Karras and Chiswick, 1999;Mesnard, 2004).…”

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International Migration with Heterogeneous Agents: Theory and Evidence

Brücker

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Schröder

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2006

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Abstract Two puzzling facts of international migration are that only a small share of a sending country's population emigrates and that net migration rates tend to cease over time. This paper addresses these issues in a migration model with heterogeneous agents that features temporary migration. In equilibrium a positive relation exists between the stock of migrants and the income differential, while the net migration flow becomes zero. Consequently, empirical migration models, estimating net migration flows instead of stocks, may be misspecified. This suspicion appears to be confirmed by our empirical investigation of cointegration relationships of flow and stock migration models. Terms of use: Documents in

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“…Migration for employment was responsive to demand conditions during European guestworker up to the early 1970s when immigrants were drawn first from Italy, Greece, Spain and Portugal and then from North Africa, Turkey and what was then Yugoslavia (Chiswick and Karras, 1999). Similarly, migration from the Indian subcontinent to In the long run a number of other fundamentals have shaped the scale and persistence between pairs of source and destination countries (Pedersen et al, 2008;Mayda, 2010;Adsera, and Pytlikova, 2012;Belot and Ederveen, 2012).…”

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Two Centuries of International Migration

Ferrie

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Hatton

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2015

Handbook of the Economics of International Migration

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. www.econstor.eu The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science, politics and business. IZA is an independent nonprofit organization supported by Deutsche Post Foundation. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its international network, workshops and conferences, data service, project support, research visits and doctoral program. IZA engages in (i) original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics, (ii) development of policy concepts, and (iii) dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public. Terms of use: Documents in D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E SIZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author.IZA Discussion Paper No. 7866 December 2013 ABSTRACT Two Centuries of International MigrationThis is a draft chapter for B. R. Chiswick and P. W. Miller (eds.) Handbook on the Economics of International Migration. It provides an overview of trends and developments in international migration since the industrial revolution. We focus principally on long-distance migration to rich destination countries, the settler economies in the nineteenth century and later the OECD. The chapter describes the structure, direction and determinants of migration flows and the assimilation experience of migrants. It also examines the impact of migration on destination and source countries, and explores the political economy behind the evolution of immigration policy. We provide an historical context for current debates on immigration and immigration policy and we conclude by speculating on future trends.JEL Classification: F22, N30, N40

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Macroeconomic Determinants of Migration: The Case of Germany 1964‐1988

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