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VI INSIDE (IAE-MOVE) Workshop

inside — Mon, 14 May 2012 13:17:01 +0000

The Sixth INSIDE Workshop (Insights on Immigration and Development) will take place October 18-19, 2012 in Barcelona at the Institute for Economic Analysis (IAE-CSIC).

INSIDE is a joint initiative of IAE-CSIC (Institute for Economic Analysis, Spanish National Research Council), member of the Barcelona GSE, and MOVE (Markets, Organizations and Votes in Economics).

The 2012 meeting will be co-organized with the team members of the project “Migration: Integration, Impact and Interaction” of the NORFACE Research Programme on Migration.

Organizing committee:
Marco Alfano (UCL, CReAM)
Lidia Farrè (IAE-CSIC, INSIDE)
Francesco Fasani (IAE-CSIC, INSIDE)
Ada Ferrer-Carbonell (IAE-CSIC, INSIDE)
Uta Schoenberg (UCL, CReAM)

Sixth INSIDE (IAE-MOVE) Workshop

inside — Mon, 14 May 2012 13:15:51 +0000

The Sixth INSIDE Workshop (Insights on Immigration and Development) will take place October 18-19, 2012 in Barcelona at the Institute for Economic Analysis (IAE-CSIC).

INSIDE is a joint initiative of IAE-CSIC (Institute for Economic Analysis, Spanish National Research Council), member of the Barcelona GSE, and MOVE (Markets, Organizations and Votes in Economics).

The 2012 meeting will be co-organized with the team members of the project “Migration: Integration, Impact and Interaction” of the NORFACE Research Programme on Migration.

Organizing committee:
Marco Alfano (UCL, CReAM)
Lidia Farrè (IAE-CSIC, INSIDE)
Francesco Fasani (IAE-CSIC, INSIDE)
Ada Ferrer-Carbonell (IAE-CSIC, INSIDE)
Uta Schoenberg (UCL, CReAM)

Professor Hunt, Visiting Fellow

inside — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:28:03 +0000

A Short Visiting Fellowship has been awarded to Jennifer Hunt, who will join us for the month of July 2012. Professor Hunt received his PhD in economics from Harvard University and is currently a full professor at Rutgers University. Her fields of interest include labor economics, migration, innovation, and transition economics. She has published, among others, in the Economic Journal, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Labor Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, and Quarterly Journal of Economics.

You can find further details on her webpage:
web.mac.com/jennifer.hunt/Hunt/Hunt.html

Media Exposure and Internal Migration – Evidence from Indonesia

inside — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:21:08 +0000

This paper investigates the impact of television on internal migration in Indonesia. We exploit the differential introduction of private television throughout the country and the variation in signal reception due to topography to estimate the causal effect of media exposure. Our estimates reveal important long and short run effects. An increase of one standard deviation in the number of private TV channels received in the area of residence reduces future inter-provincial migration by 1.7-2.7 percentage points, and all migration (inter and intra-provincial) by 4-7.4 percentage points. Short run effects are slightly smaller, but still sizeable and statistically significant. We also show that respondents less exposed to private TV are more likely to consider themselves among the poorest groups of the society. As we discuss in a stylized model of migration choice under imperfect information, these findings are consistent with Indonesia citizens over-estimating the net gains from internal migration.

JEL: J61, L82, O15
Keywords: Information; Migration decisions; Television

Labor Migration and Social Networks Participation: Evidence from Southern Mozambique

admin — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 06:11:33 +0000

This paper investigates how social networks in poor developing settings are affected if people migrate. Using a unique household survey from two southern regions in Mozambique, we test the role of labor mobility in shaping participation in groups and interhousehold cooperation by migrant-sending households in village economies at origin. We find that households with successful migrants (i.e. those receiving either remittances or return migration) engage more in community-based social networks. Our findings are robust to alternative definitions of social interaction and to endogeneity concerns suggesting that stable migration ties and higher income stability through remittances may decrease participation constraints and increase household commitment in cooperative arrangements in migrant-sending communities.

JEL Keywords: International Migration, Social Capital, Networks, Group Participation, Mozambique.
JEL Classifications: O17, O15, O12

Fifth INSIDE Workshop

admin — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 09:34:32 +0000

Program

The Fifth INSIDE Workshop (Insights on Immigration and Development) will take place June 27-28, 2011 in Barcelona at the Institute for Economic Analysis (IAE-CSIC).

INSIDE is a joint initiative of IAE-CSIC (Institute for Economic Analysis, Spanish National Research Council), member of the Barcelona GSE, and MOVE (Markets, Organizations and Votes in Economics).

The 2011 meeting will be in conjunction with the Princeton Global Network on Child Migration (Princeton University) from which INSIDE became part this year. Therefore, the organizing committee is particularly interested in papers at the crossroad of child wellbeing and migration:

- First, how does migration influence wellbeing of children and youth –i.e. selection regimes that produce migratory flows of children and youth to clarify whether migration improves or undermines wellbeing of young people, depending on its character, timing, duration, and auspices.

- Second, how migrant children compare with nonimmigrant children in their host communities on various dimensions of physical, social, and economic wellbeing)

The three sub-themes that the Global network project encompasses are:

1. Social and Economic Consequences of Age at Migration;

2. Institutions of the Welfare State and Child Wellbeing (related to policies and practices that affect children’s participation in childcare, health care and primary education).

3. Migrant Fertility and Living Arrangements (household formation, intra-household specialization and housing conditions

We welcome paper submissions until March 15, 2011 at info@inside.org.es.

Organizing committee:
Marta Tienda
Sara McLanahan
Alicia Adsera
Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell

The impact of emigration on wages in sending countries: Evidence from Poland

admin — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 07:57:51 +0000

July 12 at 12:00 h. IAE Seminar Room

Multilateral Resistance to Migration

admin — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:37:47 +0000

July 1st at 13:30 h. IAE Seminar Room

Remittances and Income Smoothing

admin — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 08:35:13 +0000

Due to inadequate savings and binding borrowing constraints, income volatility can make households in developing countries particularly susceptible to economic hardship. We examine the role of remittances in either alleviating or increasing household income volatility using Mexican household level data over the 2000 through 2008 period. We correct for reverse causality and endogeneity and find that while income smoothing does not appear to be the main motive for sending remittances in a non-negligible share of households, remittances do indeed smooth household income on average. Other variables surrounding income volatility are also considered and evaluated.
JEL Keywords: remittances, income smoothing
JEL Classifications: F22, O

The Wage Effects of Immigration and Emigration

admin — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:15:30 +0000

June 22nd at 15:00 h. IAE Seminar Room