A gravity model of immigration

Lewer, Joshua J.; Berg, Hendrik Van den

doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2007.06.019

“…31 Hence, we first estimate an average network elasticity in Spain which can be compared to the results reported by Beine et al (2012), who use comparable data for the US and estimate a model similar to ours. 32 Tables 1 and 2 show the results from the fixed effects model and the two stage least squares (2SLS) fixed effects model, respectively. In columns (a) and (b) of both tables, we eliminate country fixed effects via an adequate within-transformation.…”

Section: Results For the Scale Of Immigration Flowsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…31 Of course, this applies to the elasticities of the migration inflow with respect to FDI and trade flows as well. 32 Beine et al (2012) distinguish between local and national network externalities. Our estimates of the family and friends effect can be compared to their local assimilation effect, which is given by their estimate of the parameter α in table 1 on page 16 of Beine et al (2012) (α ≈ 0.7).…”

Section: Results For the Scale Of Immigration Flowsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Networks and Selection in International Migration to Spain

Neubecker

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,

Smolka

²

,

Steinbacher

³

2013

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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. Terms of use: Documents in University of Tübingen ANNE STEINBACHER ♯ University of Tübingen May 2012Abstract This paper analyzes the role of ethnic communities in shaping the recent immigration boom to Spain. We find that ethnic communities exerted a strong positive effect on the scale and a strong negative effect on the skill structure of this immigration. Unlike previous studies, we explicitly acknowledge similarities among final migration destinations and thus partly relax the independence of irrelevant alternatives assumption. We strengthen our causal interpretation by controlling for observed and unobserved heterogeneity in bilateral migration costs, and by adopting an instrumental variables approach. Our results suggest that previous estimates of the scale effect are upward-biased by approximately 50%.

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“…Economic conditions like unemployment rate, GDP per capita, minimum wage laws, or the generosity of the welfare state also play an important role. To study migration decisions based on countries' relative macroeconomic conditions, the existing literature has typically proposed the use of so-called gravity models; see for instance Ortega and Peri [2009] or Lewer and Van den Berg [2008]. Gravity models explain migration between two countries as a positive function of the "attractive mass" of two economies and a negative function of the distance between them.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Does Foreign Language Proficiency Foster Migration of Young Individuals within the European Union?

Fenoll¹,

Kuehn²

2016

The Economics of Language Policy

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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. 8250 June 2014 ABSTRACT Does Foreign Language Proficiency Foster Migration of Young Individuals within the European Union?Speaking the language of the host country eases migrants' integration and tends to boost their economic success in the country of destination. However, the decision to acquire language skills may in itself be determined by the intention to migrate. In addition, conditional on being a migrant, the relation between language skills and migrants' integration and economic success goes both ways. Using data on the study of foreign languages during compulsory education in European countries, we test whether and how much language proficiency determines migration flows across Europe. The European Union with basically unlimited labor mobility and pronounced differences in youth unemployment rates provides an ideal testing ground for our hypothesis. We find that speaking the language of a country increases the likelihood to migrate to that country almost fivefold.JEL Classification: J61, I20, F22

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“…To explain why, each dot has been giving a size proportional to the product of country population divided by country distance, and a color scale (from blue to red) depending on the product of country rGDPs divided again by geographical distance. The rationale for this exercise lies in the well-known empirical success of the gravity model for both migration and trade [34,35], which states that bilateral trade flows (respectively, migration stocks) are well explained by a gravity-like equation involving country sizes (rGDP and POP, respectively) and, inversely, geographical distance. If this is the case, one should expect that most of the variation in the cloud of points (m y i,j , t y i,j ) can be explained by larger country sizes and smaller distances.…”

Section: Migration Vs Trade: a Comparative Network Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Migration and Trade: A Complex-Network Approach

Fagiolo

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,

Mastrorillo

²

2013

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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. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may Marina MastrorilloPrinceton University, Princeton (USA) (Dated: September 23, 2013) This paper explores the relationships between migration and trade using a complex-network approach. We show that: (i) both weighted and binary versions of the networks of international migration and trade are strongly correlated; (ii) such correlations can be mostly explained by country economic/demographic size and geographical distance; (iii) pairs of countries that are more central in the international-migration network trade more.

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A gravity model of immigration

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Networks and Selection in International Migration to Spain

Networks and Selection in International Migration to Spain

Does Foreign Language Proficiency Foster Migration of Young Individuals within the European Union?

Migration and Trade: A Complex-Network Approach

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