Four empirical essays on international migration
(2011)
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- (en) This thesis investigates four different economic issues related to international migration from a new perspective. The first novelty consists in looking at migration as a “gendered process”. Little research has indeed addressed the issue of female migration until the last decades. Women were largely invisible in migration studies. Statistics on female migration were absent and females were mostly viewed as dependents, moving as wives, mothers or daughters of male migrants. Using the newly released database on the gender dimension of respectively skilled (Chapter 1) and total (Chapter 2) migration we provide two important outcomes concerning female migration. First, skilled females have a similar migration propensity to migrate than skilled males. Secondly, when the gender and skill structures of migration flows are jointly endogenized, gendered disparities in the magnitude of network effects are relatively small, and negligible under many specifications. In Chapter 3 we build a new bilateral data set on remittances to study the relationship between skilled migrants and remitting behaviour. We find that skilled people do remit more suggesting that immigration policies determine the size and the magnitude of the relationship between remittances and migrants' education. Finally, Chapter 4 contributes to the recent strand of international migration literature on the “transfer of norms” going through the case of female political empowerment. We find that total international migration to countries with higher female parliamentary share significantly increases the female political empowerment in sending countries.
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Salomone, S. (2011). Four empirical essays on international migration. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/150980