Transit Migration : All Roads Lead to America
The paths of many migrants include multiple destinations and transit routes, yet this pattern is almost never reflected in empirical analyses. For example, 9 percent of recent immigrants to the United States arrived from a transit country as oppose...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2016
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/569151478528760513/Transit-migration-all-roads-lead-to-America http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25680 |
| Summary: | The paths of many migrants include
multiple destinations and transit routes, yet this pattern
is almost never reflected in empirical analyses. For
example, 9 percent of recent immigrants to the United States
arrived from a transit country as opposed to the country
where they were born. Among those arriving from many
high-income countries, the transit migration ratio exceeds
30 percent. To explain these patterns, this paper constructs
a dynamic model of global migration that allows transit
migration opportunities to impact the attractiveness of
locations. After estimating the structural parameters of the
model, the paper simulates various counterfactual scenarios
to highlight the spillovers of transit migration paths. |
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