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TBVC and non-TBVC areas after the repeal of migration restrictions. The results show that although drought has significant …
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migration waves of the late 19th and early 20th centuries has left a legacy on the economic development of the counties where … look at the geography of migration across US counties in the 48 continental states. We then link this settlement pattern of … number of factors which may have influenced both the location of migrants at the time of migration, as well as for the …
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after the incentive is removed. The migration rate is 10 percentage points higher in treatment areas a year later, and three … re-migration, and by conducting a new experiment with a migration insurance treatment. We document several pieces of …
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This paper examines migrants' choice of destination conditional on migration. To this end, we design an empirical … strategy which remedies both migration selection and unobserved heterogeneity problems. The study uses data from two rounds of … Nepal Living Standard Surveys and a Population Census and examine how the choice of a migration destination is influenced by …
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Mobility of workers involves flows of labour, human capital and other production factors and thus contributes to a more efficient allocation of resources. Besides these effects on allocative efficiency, migrant flows affect relative wages and also change the international and national...
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As part of their effort to pool individual risk, households consider spreading their members over a plurality of locations, both inside and outside their country of origin. At the same time, the world is ridden with ‘Chinatowns’ and ‘Little Italies’: people, whenever they move, tend to...
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Despite their small number, Israeli economists have become an important fixture in the international academic scene. In recent years, this phenomenon has been characterized by an additional attribute: the number of Israelis who have chosen to leave the country’s universities - or not to return...
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This paper provides a comparative examination of how public universities in two countries, the United States and Israel, have evolved over the past few decades - and how differences between the two have culminated in a rate of academic brain drain from the latter to the former that is...
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implications of the individual migration decision and government intervention in the form of employment subsidies are also examined. …This paper presents a critical survey of theories of migration, their welfare and policy implications and their … empirical relevance. We also develop some extensions to the theory beginning with a general encompassing model of migration …
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After unification, real wages in Eastern Germany rose rapidly relative to labour productivity despite high and rising levels of unemployment. This substantial increase in wage levels relative to those in Western Germany is difficult to explain without recourse to models of union behaviour or...
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