xmlui.dri2xhtml.METS-1.0.item-contributor-funder:
Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España)
Sponsor:
This research was supported by the Agence Nationale
de la Recherche of the French government through the program “Investissements d'avenir”
(ANR-10-LABX-14-01) and by the FERDI (Fondation pour les études et recherches sur le
développement international). Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga received financial support
from the ECO2008-04785 and ECO2012-39412 projects funded by the Spanish Ministry for
Economics and Competitiveness
Project:
Gobierno de España.ECO2008-04785 Gobierno de España. ECO2012-39412
Keywords:
International migration
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Migration policies
,
Visa policies
,
Multiple destinations
,
Externalities
The scale of international migration flows depends on moving costs that are, in turn, influenced by host-country policies. This paper shows how to estimate the influence of policies upon bilateral migration flows to multiple destinations. We rely on a Poisson The scale of international migration flows depends on moving costs that are, in turn, influenced by host-country policies. This paper shows how to estimate the influence of policies upon bilateral migration flows to multiple destinations. We rely on a Poisson pseudo-maximum likelihood estimator to derive estimates that are consistent
under more general distributional assumptions on the underlying RUM model than the ones commonly adopted
in the literature. We derive bounds for the estimated direct and indirect effects of migration policies that reflect
the uncertainty connected to the use of aggregate data, and we show that bilateral migration flows can be highly
sensitive to the immigration policies set by other destination countries, an externality that we are able to quantify[+][-]