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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Main Authors:	Artuc, Erhan, Ozden, Caglar
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2016
Subjects:	international migration transit migration migration policy
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/569151478528760513/Transit-migration-all-roads-lead-to-America http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25680

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spelling	okr-10986-256802021-06-08T14:42:46Z Transit Migration : All Roads Lead to America Artuc, Erhan Ozden, Caglar international migration transit migration migration policy 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. 2016-12-05T23:35:36Z 2016-12-05T23:35:36Z 2016-11 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/569151478528760513/Transit-migration-all-roads-lead-to-America http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25680 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 7880 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper United States
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description	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.
format	Working Paper
author	Artuc, Erhan Ozden, Caglar
author_facet	Artuc, Erhan Ozden, Caglar
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title	Transit Migration : All Roads Lead to America
title_short	Transit Migration : All Roads Lead to America
title_full	Transit Migration : All Roads Lead to America
title_fullStr	Transit Migration : All Roads Lead to America
title_full_unstemmed	Transit Migration : All Roads Lead to America
title_sort	transit migration : all roads lead to america
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2016
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/569151478528760513/Transit-migration-all-roads-lead-to-America http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25680
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Transit Migration : All Roads Lead to America

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