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Abstract
"In this paper we focus on the possibility of migrants' self-selection through strategic remittances. We argue that migrants of a specific community might be pooled with migrants from other ethnic minorities on the labor market of the foreign host country and that this could reduce the occurrence of strategic remittances. In a simple model with two types of workers, skilled and unskilled, facing two possible actions, to migrate or not to migrate, we derive the theoretical conditions under which strategic transfers are still operating when pooling among communities is introduced." excerptKeywords: Cultural Background; Demographic Factors; Economic Factors; Employment Status; Ethnic Groups; Immigrants; International Migration--determinants; Labor Migration; Microeconomic Factors; Migrants; Migration; Models, Theoretical; Occupational Status; Population; Population Characteristics; Population Dynamics; Remittances--determinants; Research Methodology; Socioeconomic Factors; Socioeconomic Status; World
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Year: 1998 PMID: 12294788 DOI: 10.1007/s001480050085
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Popul Econ ISSN: 0933-1433