Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/158556 
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Year of Publication: 
2016
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[Journal:] SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association [ISSN:] 1869-4195 [Volume:] 7 [Issue:] 2 [Publisher:] Springer [Place:] Heidelberg [Year:] 2016 [Pages:] 221-255
Publisher: 
Springer, Heidelberg
Abstract: 
In this paper I present a new database of bilateral migrant stocks and I provide newevidence on the determinants of international migration. The newCensusbased data are obtained from National Statistical Offices of 24 OECD countries, and they cover the total stock of immigrants in each destination country for 1960-2000, including 188 countries of origin, sometimes in grouped categories. For each census, I keep grouped categories in a raw manner, without making imputations to specific origin countries. In the empirical analysis, I give an explicit treatment to these grouped categories. Results present strong evidence of heterogeneous effects of income gains on migration prospects depending on distance. For example, a 1000$ increase in US income per capita increases the stock of Mexican immigrants in the country by a percentage 2.6 times larger than the percentage increase in the stock of Chinese (8 vs. 3.1 %).
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International migration
Data collection
Grouped data
JEL: 
F22
J61
O15
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