Immigration Policies and the Ecuadorian Exodus

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dc.creatorBertoli, Simone
dc.creatorMoraga, Jesús Fernández-Huertas
dc.creatorOrtega, Francesc
dc.date2013-05-20T20:25:46Z
dc.date2013-05-20T20:25:46Z
dc.date2011-01-30
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-01T01:05:14Z
dc.descriptionEcuador 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, are used to examine the size and skill composition of these migration flows and the role of wage differences in accounting for these features. Estimations of earnings regressions for Ecuadorians in all three countries show substantially larger income gains following migration to the United States than to Spain, with the wage differential increasing with migrants' education level. While this finding can account for the pattern of positive sorting in education toward the United States, it fails to explain why most Ecuadorians opted for Spain. The explanation for this preference appears to lie in Spain's visa waiver program for Ecuadorians. When the program was abruptly terminated, monthly inflows of Ecuadorians to Spain declined immediately.
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dc.identifierWorld Bank Economic Review
dc.identifier1564-698X
dc.identifierdoi:10.1093/wber/lhr004
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/13464
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.1596/13463
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/415092
dc.languageen_US
dc.publisherWorld Bank
dc.relationWorld Bank Economic Review
dc.relationWorld Bank Economic Review;25(1)
dc.rightsCC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rightshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
dc.rightsWorld Bank
dc.subjectdemographic changes
dc.subjectHomeland Security
dc.subjecthost countries
dc.subjectImmigrant
dc.subjectImmigration
dc.subjectImmigration Policies
dc.subjectInternational Conference on Migration
dc.subjectinternational migration
dc.subjectlabor market
dc.subjectlanguage proficiency
dc.subjectlegal status
dc.subjectlevel of education
dc.subjectmarital status
dc.subjectmigrants
dc.subjectmigration flows
dc.subjectpolicies on migration
dc.subjectreturn migration
dc.subjectRural Areas
dc.subjecttemporary migrants
dc.subjectUnemployment
dc.titleImmigration Policies and the Ecuadorian Exodus
dc.typeJournal Article
dc.typeArticle de journal
dc.typeArtículo de revista

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