Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5062046 | Economics Letters | 2008 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
This paper develops a gravity model of immigration. Tests of the model using panel data for 16 OECD countries for 1991-2000 confirm the model's high explanatory power, and examples illustrate its usefulness for testing other hypothesized determinants of immigration.
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Authors
Joshua J. Lewer, Hendrik Van den Berg,