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This paper deals with the destination decision of political migrants who, in spite of having strong cultural, ideological and religious ties to a particular potential destination, choose to emigrate elsewhere. The model presented characterizes the migrants, who have a choice of two possible destinations, by two properties, skill level and financial resources, and identifies those that move to each destination. The paper examines various immigration-encouraging policies and shows that although all of them will increase immigration, in some cases the economic quality of the new immigrants will rise and in some it will fall. This paper includes general evidence on the present immigration to Israel and some suggestions for empirical tests.
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Supported by the Schnitzer Foundation for Research on the Israeli Society and Economy.
We would like to thank two anonymous referees for their valuable comments which simplified the presentation.
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Darvish-Lecker, T., Kahana, N. The destination decision of political migrants. J Popul Econ 5, 145–153 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00168273
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00168273