Abstract
We examine the determinants of a current migrant's location choice emphasizing the relative importance and interaction of migrant stocks and flows. We show that both stocks and flow have significant impacts on the migrant's decision of where to locate. The significance and size of the effects vary according to legal status and whether the migrant is a "new" or a "repeat" migrant.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Aspects of Worker Well-Being |
| Editors | Solomon Polachek, Olivier Bargain |
| Pages | 199-229 |
| Number of pages | 31 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2007 |
Publication series
| Name | Research in Labor Economics |
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| Volume | 26 |
| ISSN (Print) | 0147-9121 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:We thank Julie Phillips for discussions and helping us with the data. We thank David Jaeger, John Landon-Lane, Jackline Wahba, Yoshi Yonezawa and Myeong-Su Yun for their comments. This paper was partly written while Gil Epstein and Ira Gang were visiting IZA, Bonn. Ira Gang thanks the Rutgers Research Council for partial support.
Funding
We thank Julie Phillips for discussions and helping us with the data. We thank David Jaeger, John Landon-Lane, Jackline Wahba, Yoshi Yonezawa and Myeong-Su Yun for their comments. This paper was partly written while Gil Epstein and Ira Gang were visiting IZA, Bonn. Ira Gang thanks the Rutgers Research Council for partial support.
| Funders | Funder number |
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| Rutgers Research Council |