Three Essays on the Economics of Immigration to the United States
Tannuri, Maria Eduarda Abdalla
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Title
Three Essays on the Economics of Immigration to the United States
Author(s)
Tannuri, Maria Eduarda Abdalla
Issue Date
2000
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Hendricks, Wallace
Department of Study
Economics
Discipline
Economics
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Economics, Labor
Language
eng
Abstract
"Finally, the time series properties of some migration flows to the U.S. during the 20th century are investigated. The inertial component of migration, associated with the ""friends and relatives effect"" is connected to the hypothesis of unit root. Given the series idiosyncrasies, the performances of the Hasan-Koenker robust unit root test and least square based tests are compared. The tests exhibit some contradictory results. The residuals of the augmented Dickey-Fuller models are heavy tailed distributed. It was expected that the Hasan-Koenker test would reject more often when the unit root hypothesis seems implausible (as indicated by the autocorrelation functions), but this does not occur on a regular basis."
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