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A gravity model of immigration

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ECONOMICS LETTERS
Volume 99, Issue 1, Pages 164-167

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ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2007.06.019

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immigration; gravity model; hypothesis testing

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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. (C) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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