This article examines the causal relations between immigration and the characteristics of the housing market in host regions. We constructed a unique database from administrative records and used it ...to assess annual migration flows into France’s twenty-two administrative regions from 1990 to 2013. We then estimated various panel vector autoregression models, taking into account gross domestic product per capita and the unemployment rate as the main regional economic indicators. We find that immigration has no significant effect on property prices but that higher property prices significantly reduce immigration rates. We also find no significant relationship between immigration and social housing supply.
Compared to individuals without a migration background, the second generation seems more likely to possess the type of skills, values and transnational ties that facilitate international moves. In ...other words, 'mobility capital' transmitted from parents of migrant origin to their children may increase the likelihood of emigration among the second generation. Yet so far this expectation has not been tested empirically. To address this knowledge gap, this study analyses emigration patterns and determinants of the Western European second generation born in the Netherlands between 1987 and 1992 using longitudinal data from the Dutch population registers. The study addresses whether the second generation is more likely to emigrate during early adulthood as compared to peers without a migration background, and whether this difference is related to having immigrant parents or follows from other background characteristics. The results show that the Western European second generation has a higher chance to emigrate from the Netherlands than individuals without a migration background, and that this difference remains when taking socio-economic indicators, current individual demographics, and household characteristics at age 15 into account. As such, the study is among the first to identify having a second-generation migration background as an important predictor of international migration.
Abstract Studies of the determinants of emigration from Europe from 1850 to 1913 include the gains to migrants but often neglect the costs. One component of those costs is earnings forgone on the ...voyage. In this paper, I present new data on the voyage times for emigrants from the UK traveling to the United States and to Australia. Between 1853–7 and 1909–13 the voyage time from Liverpool to New York fell from 38 days to just 8 days (or 79 per cent). Over the same years, the emigrant voyage to Sydney fell by more in absolute terms, from 105 days to 46, but by less in relative terms (56 per cent). Differences in profiles of travel times are explained with a focus on the transition from sailing to steam ships and (for Australia) the use of the Suez Canal. Data series for fare prices and foregone wage costs during transit are combined to create new series on the ‘total’ cost of emigrant voyages. Econometric analysis of the determinants of UK emigration to the United States, Canada, and Australia supports the view that time costs mattered.
This essay revisits the argument that the removal of worldwide immigration restrictions would induce a very large increase in world GDP The recent books Exodus: How Migration is Changing Our World by ...Paul Collier and The Price of Rights: Regulating International Labor Migration by Martin Ruhs raise a number of questions about the underlying economic model. The essay shows how these concerns can greatly attenuate the predicted gains.
Aim: The study investigates service delivery impacts to Syrian patients on the Turkish health care system. Method: The study was carried out in a retrospective and used the cross-sectional ...descriptive design using the data of Syrian patients served in public and private health institutions throughout Istanbul in 2018. Results: Healthcare services were provided to 1,419,069 Syrian patients in health institutions in Istanbul in 2018. This number constitutes 1.43% of general patient admissions. While the ratio of Syrian patients to outpatient clinic admissions was 1.05%, the rate for emergency services admissions was 2.82%. In addition, the rate of Syrian patients in general admissions was 1.43%, while the rate among inpatients was 6.10%. Conclusion: Turkey, despite having a health workforce and technical possibilities (numbers of hospital beds, MR and CT devices) to have less opportunities from OECD countries, which also share these resources with Syrian patients. Turkey offers health services to a substantial amount of Syrian patients. Immigrant Syrian patients constitute 1.43% of general admissions to hospitals. It is thought that this small health service burden will not adversely affect the delivery of health services.
This article examines how international relation dynamics shape asylum policies. Using data on asylum applications in the European Union (EU) and international events from 1999 to 2017, we document ...that EU Member States admit relatively more refugees when diplomatic relations with the country of origin deteriorate. This result holds after controlling for push and pull factors as well as bilateral determinants of refugee migration. Our results highlight the importance of non-humanitarian factors in the grant of political asylum.
•We show that asylum policies in the European Union (EU) are informed by international tensions.•EU countries admit relatively more refugees when diplomatic relationships with the country of origin deteriorate.•Non-humanitarian considerations shape the grant of political asylum.
Discussions of chaos and crisis feature prominently in contemporary literature on the nation-state, globalization, security, and neoliberalism. In scholarship, policy, and public discourse on global ...migration, references to chaos and crisis abound and yet have not received sustained critical inquiry. In this article, we examine why these alarmist terms emerge so frequently, scrutinizing in particular what is relayed about the contemporary "state" of migration and its new geographical expressions. We take the recurrent discourse of chaos and crisis as our starting point, with the goal of delving more deeply into the logics driving their mobilization. We analyze when and where these discourses become prominent and trace key moments when migrants become securitized (the border crossing, the detention center, the deportation). This examination of the spatiotemporal logics of chaos and crisis advances understandings of the often contradictory efforts by nation-states to facilitate mobility and containment. We argue that states mobilize constructions of chaos and crisis to create exceptional moments in which sovereign reach and geopolitical influence are expanded. By analyzing the use of these discourses as tools, the article provides insight to the relationship between migration and state power.
The selection of high-skilled emigrants Parey, Matthias; Ruhose, Jens; Waldinger, Fabian ...
The review of economics and statistics,
12/2017, Volume:
99, Issue:
5
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
We measure selection among high-skilled emigrants from Germany using predicted earnings. Migrants to less equal countries are positively selected relative to nonmigrants, while migrants to more equal ...countries are negatively selected, consistent with the prediction in Borjas (1987). Positive selection to less equal countries reflects university quality and grades, and negative selection to more equal countries reflects university subject and gender. Migrants to the United States are highly positively selected and concentrated in STEM fields. Our results highlight the relevance of the Borjas model for high-skilled individuals when credit constraints and other migration barriers are unlikely to be binding.
The objective of the article is to describe the living conditions of theinternational migrant population and their practices of use of urban public spaces in the city of Temuco, Chile. Under a ...non-experimental, exploratory-descriptive and quantitative design, a survey was applied to a sample of Temuco’s foreigner residents (n= 200), using descriptive statistics for the analysis. The results indicate that the local real estate market shows incipient signs of exclusion, while low rates of use of urban spaces are observed.Theseevidencesareprobably related to the recent nature of migratory flows in the city. The article contributesto thediscussionabout the relationship between urban space and migration from a statistical approach to the intermediate cities ofsouthern Chile, still understudied. It is concluded that it is necessary to analyze the specific realities of neighborhoods to arrive at more conclusive answers.
El objetivo del artículo es describir las condiciones de habitabilidad de la población migrante internacional y sus prácticas de uso de los espacios públicos urbanos en la ciudad de Temuco, Chile. Bajo un diseño cuantitativo no experimental de tipo exploratorio-descriptivo, se aplicó una encuesta a una muestra de personas extranjeras residentes en Temuco (n=200), para cuyo análisis se utilizaron estadísticas descriptivas. Los resultados indican que el mercado inmobiliario local muestra señales incipientes de exclusión, mientras que se observan bajos índices de uso de los espacios urbanos. Estas evidencias probablemente están vinculadas con el carácter reciente de los flujos migratorios en la ciudad. El artículo contribuye ala discusión de la relación entre espacio urbano y migración desde una aproximación estadística a las ciudades intermedias del sur de Chile, aún poco estudiadas. Se concluye que es necesario analizar las realidades específicas de los barrios para arribar a respuestas más concluyentes.
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