Measuring and Explaining Cross-Country Immigration Policies

Rayp, Glenn; Ruyssen, Ilse; Standaert, Samuel

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.02.026

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“…We address this using instrumental variables regressions. In particular, we use an index of migration policy as instrument, taken from Rayp et al (2017). The authors compute a quantitative indicator of migration policy that accounts for restrictiveness of entry policy, staying requirements and regulations to foster integration.…”

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Inventor migration and knowledge flows: A two-way communication channel?

Miguélez

Temgoua

2020

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This paper documents the influence of networks of highly skilled migrants on the international diffusion of knowledge-particularly those with degrees and occupations in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. It investigates knowledge inflows to host countries brought in by skilled immigrants. It then explores knowledge feedback to home countries generated by these migrants. We test our hypotheses in a country-pair gravity model setting, for the period 1990-2010, using patent citations across countries to measure international knowledge diffusion. Our results confirm our hypotheses on the positive impact of skilled migrants on knowledge flows to host and home countries. However, they are not robust to instrumental variables and country-pair fixed-effects, and only matter in certain contexts: when the sending countries are developing nations and for knowledge diffusion within the boundaries of multinationals.

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Section: Confounding Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We use different approaches to account for unobserved effects driving both talent and knowledge flows. First, we use a recently released index of migration policy to instrument our explanatory variable (Rayp et al, 2017). Second, we introduce country-pair fixed-effects (FE) to control for unobservables.…”

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Inventor migration and knowledge flows: A two-way communication channel?

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Temgoua

2020

Research Policy

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“…This project includes more than 6,500 changes of migration policy (International Migration Institute, 2019). In other project titled Economic and social consequences of immigration, Rayp et al (2017) constructed the Migration Policy Index, based on three sub-indexes. These indexes are based on all publicly available measures of migration policy.…”

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“…In the course of the research on migration policy restrictiveness various databases and indexes were created. These studies are related to migration policy: the DEMIG (The determinants of international migration: a theoretical and empirical assessment of policy, origin and destination effects) project (de Haas et al, 2014) and the research by Rayp et al (2017), as well as immigration policy: the index of strictness of migration policies of the Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti (2019) (see Fumagalli & Boeri, 2009), the index of restrictiveness of migration policy by Ortega &Peri (2009), the IMPIC project (Bjerre et al, 2016) and the IMPALA project (Gest et al, 2014).…”

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Indexes of migration policy restrictiveness: concept, methodology and application

Woźniak

2021

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Motivation: migration management has become important both in the political debate and academic research. In recent years the interest of researchers in migration policy has significantly increased. As a result, there have been many quantitative studies related to the migration policy. Aim: the aim of this paper is to conduct a comparative analysis of the migration policy indexes (including databases on migration policies), as well as to broaden the understanding of the scope and essence of migration policies. Results: The indexes of migration (including immigration) restrictiveness are based on various concept of this policy. However, all the indexes of migration (including immigration) restrictiveness are based on de jure migration laws and regulations measures adopted by states (on the national level). The most of indexes of migration (including immigration) policy restrictiveness are based on a set of coded questions relating to these policies. An important factor differencing the migration policy indexes is also the fact that in some analyses relative changes of migration policy were evaluated, but in other studies absolute changes were considered. Concerning to the indexes of immigration restrictiveness, most of them are based on entry and stay regulations. The possible application of indexes in other studies is especially related to the time and geographical scope of these indexes, as well as to their level of detail. Most of the data on migration policies is available mainly for the developed countries, the majority of which belongs to the OECD or the European Union. Some of them allow for the long-term analysis and other for shortterm study. For most countries the data is available since the 1980s. Additionally, some

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“…Integration policies are all policies that directly or indirectly may have an effect on integration of migrants. The analysis of such migration policies has been the subject of extensive academic debate (Bjerre et al, 2015; Beine et al, 2016; Rayp et al, 2017; EC‐JRC, 2018). A number of projects have developed indicators to address migration to assess the nature (usually openness/restrictiveness) of these policies.…”

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The Integration of Interstate Migrants in India: A 7 State Policy Evaluation

Aggarwal¹,

Solano²,

Singh³

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Interstate migration in developing countries is a key income generating strategy for lowincome households. In India, despite the importance of migration between states, interstate migrants continue to face significant integration barriers in their destination states. The impact of state borders on migration within India is significant and large. This study presents one of the first attempts at creating a set of indicators to understand the role of state-level policies for the integration of interstate migrants in a developing country. After illustrating the process behind the creation of this tool and the tool in itself, we compare seven of the major migrant destination states of India, based on their policy frameworks relevant to the integration of interstate migrants. Out of these states, we found that Kerala state is the most inclusive of interstate migrants but that overall, policymakers in the considered Indian states have a long way to go to improve the integration of interstate migrants.

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Measuring and Explaining Cross-Country Immigration Policies

Cited by 21 publications

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Inventor migration and knowledge flows: A two-way communication channel?

Inventor migration and knowledge flows: A two-way communication channel?

Indexes of migration policy restrictiveness: concept, methodology and application

The Integration of Interstate Migrants in India: A 7 State Policy Evaluation

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