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A gravity model of immigration

Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
5062046 Economics Letters 2008 4 Pages PDF
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.

Keywords
C12C51F22Hypothesis testingGravity modelImmigration
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Social Sciences and Humanities Economics, Econometrics and Finance Economics and Econometrics
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A gravity model of immigration
Authors
Joshua J. Lewer, Hendrik Van den Berg,
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