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We study the impact of job proximity on individual employment and earnings. The analysis exploits a Swedish refugee dispersal policy to get exogenous variation in individual locations. Using very detailed data on the exact location of all residences and workplaces in Sweden, we find that having...
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Many developed countries, e.g. the UK, Germany, and Sweden, use or have used settlement policies to direct the inflow of new immigrants away from immigrant dense metropolitan areas. We evaluate a reform of Swedish immigration policy that featured dispersion of refugee immigrants across the...
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Recent immigrants tend to locate in ethnic ‘enclaves’ within metropolitan areas. The economic consequence of living in such enclaves is still an unresolved issue. We use an immigrant policy initiative in Sweden, when government authorities distributed refugee immigrants across locales in a...
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which determines economic development differences to this day? Does the national origin of migrants matter for long …-term development? This paper explores whether the distinct geographical settlement patterns of European migrants according to national … identify where migrants from different nationalities settled and then regresses these patterns on current levels of economic …
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This paper examines the extent to which the distinct settlement pattern of migrants arriving in the US during the big … migrants to current levels of local development – proxied by GDP per capita at county level in 2005 – while controlling for a … 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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family members of induced migrants, and follow-up data show that treated households continue to re-migrate at a higher rate … individual-specific learning (e.g. resolving the uncertainty about matching to an employer), and (c) some migrants are close to …
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This paper delves into the factors which determine the attractiveness of regions in Europe for migrants. Contrary to …-demographic and amenity-related territorial features, we examine the appeal of various regional characteristics for migrants by …
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This study explores to what extent migration has contributed to improved living standards of individuals in Tanzania. Using a 13-year panel survey, the authors find that migration between 1991 and 2004 added 36 percentage points to consumption growth. Although moving out of agriculture resulted...
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This paper models how migration both influences and responds to differences in disease prevalence between cities, regions and countries, and show how the possibility of migration away from high-prevalence areas affects long-run steady state disease prevalence. We develop a dynamic framework...
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This paper explores implications of the fact that individuals know more than the authorities about their risk of infection and can take migration decisions before their health status is publicly observable. In a 2-period model we study under which conditions the presence of quarantine measures...
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