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    Title: Crossing the border : self selection, earnings and international migration decisions  Author(s): BERTOLI, Simone; FERNÁNDEZ-HUERTAS MORAGA, Jesus; ORTEGA, Francesco Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: We analyze an international migration episode for which we are able to gather individual-level data covering all relevant countries, namely the exodus of Ecuadorians to Spain and the US in the aftermath of the economic ...
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    Title: A Fragile Guideline to Development Assistance  Author(s): BERTOLI, Simone; TICCI, Elisa Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: The concept of fragility has gained an increasing relevance in development discourse. Nevertheless, it remains a fuzzy and elusive concept. This article presents a review of the literature, and identifies two main sets of ...
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    Title: Immigration Policies and the Ecuadorian Exodus  Author(s): BERTOLI, Simone; FERNÁNDEZ-HUERTAS MORAGA, Jesus; ORTEGA, Francesco Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: Ecuador recently experienced an unprecedented wave of emigration following the severe economic crisis of the late 1990s. Individual-level data for Ecuador and its two main migration destinations, Spain and the United States, ...
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    Title: Networks, sorting and self-selection of Ecuadorian Migrants  Author(s): BERTOLI, Simone Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: This paper provides new empirical evidence about the influence exerted by migration networks upon migrants’ self-selection in education from the analysis of the recent process of Ecuadorian migration. The severe economic ...
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    Title: Selective immigration policies, migrants' education and welfare at origin  Author(s): BERTOLI, Simone; BRÜCKER, Herbert Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: Destination countries are increasingly adopting selective immigration policies. These can effectively increase migrants’ average education even if one allows for endogenous schooling decisions and education policies at ...
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    Title: Exchange Market Pressure: Some Caveats in Empirical Applications  Author(s): BERTOLI, Simone; GALLO, Giampiero M.; RICCHIUTI, Giorgio Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: The Exchange Market Pressure (EMP) index, developed by Eichengreen et al. (1994), is widely used as a tool to signal whether pressure on a currency is softened or warded off through monetary authorities' interventions or, ...
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    Title: The Informational Structure of Migration Decision and Migrants’ Self-selection  Author(s): BERTOLI, Simone Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: We analyze the pattern of migrants' self-selection in unobservables when there is uncertainty about foreign wages. Negative selection becomes more likely, and a greater dispersion of wages at destination no longer suffices ...