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migration. This paper addresses this gap, using microeconomic data for more than 100,000 individuals living in the European …
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Over the past decades, globalization has led to a huge increase in the migration of workers, as well as students. This … paper develops a simple two-step model that describes the decisions of an individual vis-à-vis education and migration, and … presents a unified model, wherein the two migration decisions are combined into a single, unique model. This paper shows that …
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-layered diversification process in Western societies. Migration phenomena are largely responsible for this process both in receiving European … societies as well as in original sending countries. Migration has been and continues to be a ubiquitous human experience. Yet …
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We analyse whether migration is an adaptation that households employ to cope with climate in Ghana and Nigeria. If … migration is part of the present adaptation portfolio of households in developing countries, it is reasonable to expect that it … generated by General Circulation model reveal that, ceteris paribus, migration may decline in Ghana and in Nigeria. …
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ethnic neighbourhoods. Globalisation and migration have made diversity a defining feature of contemporary society, and cities …
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economically vibrant state with Baroda as its pride. Employment opportunities attracted fresh migration to the city. Despite … of an unbelievabld dimension broke out between Hindus and Muslims. This was not a conflict arising out of migration of …
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This paper investigates the linkages between the environment, income and migration, exploring the role that … environmental factors play in inducing migration within a rural developing economy. The environment has a deep economic value … activities might induce human displacement and migration. Because of the deterioration of the environment people could be forced …
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We analyze the efficiency of urbanization patterns in a dynamic model of endogenous urban growth with two sectors of production. Production exhibits increasing returns to scale on aggregate. Urban environmental pollution, as a force that discourages agglomeration, is caused by domestic...
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Ghana, like the rest of West Africa is experiencing tremendous human migration both internally and across international … boundaries. Rural-urban migration has assumed uncontrollable dimensions in the sub-region and the social consequences have become …
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In this paper we study theoretically and empirically the role of the interaction between skilled migration and …
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