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Entry and Exit Strategies in Migration Dynamics

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  • Sergio Vergalli

    (University of Brescia)

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This work is devoted to study the role of combined entry and exit strategies in the migration process. We develop a real option model in which the community of immigrants in the host country is described as a club and the immigrants benefits is a U-shaped function, depending on the dimension of the district. There exist two threshold levels: the first one triggers the migration choice, while the second triggers the return to the country of origin. The theoretical results show that the phenomenon of hysteresis is amplified by the existence of a community both in the entry case and in the exit case. Furthermore, the community can reduce the minimum wage level required to trigger both exit and entry: this fact could explain why in some cases we observe migration inflows with a low wage differential and also with underunemployment. We show also some possible further extensions of the model: in one case we introduce a possible way to select the entrants’ skills and in another case we show some theoretical implementations to include possible policy shocks in the migrant’s choice.

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  • Sergio Vergalli, 2006. "Entry and Exit Strategies in Migration Dynamics," Working Papers 2006.123, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei.
    • Handle: RePEc:fem:femwpa:2006.123
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    • F22 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Migration
    • H49 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Other
    • O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
    • R23 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Household Analysis - - - Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population

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