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Immigration, Labor Markets and Discrimination : Evidence from the Venezuelan Exodus in Peru (英语)

Venezuela is currently experiencing the biggest crisis in its recent history. This has led to a large increase in emigration. According to recent estimates, there are a total of 5.6 million Venezuelan...

The World Bank Economic Review 32 (1) (英语)

The long-term impact of international migration on economic decision-making : evidence from a migration lottery and lab-in-the-field experiments (英语)

This paper studies how migration from a poor to a rich country affects key economic beliefs, preference parameters, and transnational household decision-making efficiency. The setting is the migration...

The long-term impacts of international migration : evidence from a lottery (英语)

This study examines the long-term impacts of international migration by comparing immigrants who had successful ballot entries in a migration lottery program, and first moved almost a decade ago, with...

The impacts of international migration on remaining household members : omnibus results from a migration lottery program (英语)

This brief summarizes the results of a gender impact evaluation study, entitled The impacts of international migration on remaining household members : omnibus results from a migration lottery program...

Migration and mental health : evidence from a natural experiment (英语)

This brief summarizes the results of a gender impact evaluation study, entitled Migration and mental health : evidence from a natural experiment, began in the year 2002 in Tonga. The study observed that...

The impact of immigration on child health : experimental evidence from a migration lottery program (英语)

This paper uses a unique survey designed by the authors to compare migrant children who enter New Zealand through a random ballot with children in the home country of Tonga whose families were unsuccessful...

Accounting for selectivity and duration-dependent heterogeneity when estimating the impact of emigration on incomes and poverty in sending areas (英语)

The impacts of international emigration and remittances on incomes and poverty in sending areas are increasingly studied with household survey data. But comparing households with and without emigrants...

The impacts of international migration on remaining household members : omnibus results from a migration lottery (英语)

We use a migration lottery program to overcome the double selectivity problems posed by migration. We compare a wide range of outcomes for the remaining household members of Tongan emigrants with those...

The impacts of international migration on remaining household members : omnibus results from a migration lottery program (英语)

The impacts of international migration on development in the sending countries, and especially the effects on remaining household members, are increasingly studied. However, comparisons of households in...

A land of milk and honey with streets paved with gold : do emigrants have over-optimistic expectations about incomes abroad ? (英语)

Millions of people emigrate every year in search of better economic and social opportunities. Anecdotal evidence suggests that emigrants may have over-optimistic expectations about the incomes they can...

How important is selection ? Experimental versus non-experimental measures of the income gains from migration (英语)

Measuring the gain in income from migration is complicated by non-random selection of migrants from the general population, making it difficult to obtain an appropriate comparison group of non-migrants...