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.  However, migration flows from southern Europe responded little to  free migration after 1986, despite substantial … differentials in real GDP per worker.  The simple explanation we propose for this puzzle is migration costs.  We explore the … implications of our costly migration model by combining individual information from two household survey datasets (Luxembourg …
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What drives migration and remittance behaviour in South Africa, and what are the implications for public policy? This … longitudinal data spanning 1993 to 2004 from KwaZula-Natal province. Findings generally accord with expectations if migration is a … receipt of public transfer income raises the likelihood of migration (most likely because migration is costly and households …
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farming, local non-farming and temporary migration activites. The returns to non-farming greatly exceed those to farming, for …
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migration and encouraging return migration. …
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The existing literature on training is concerned with understanding the reasons why firms pay for the general skills of their workers, but without explaining which firms train which workers. This paper develops a theory that both explains the willingness of firms to pay for general training, and...
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What is the impact of joining the European Union on a small, less developed economy? This is the general question driving this research paper. In particular, the role of factor movements in explaining real wage behavior in Portugal after its entry in the European Union (EU) is evaluated. Based...
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of migration, and to examine the size and nature of the pool of potential rural-urban migrants.  An attempt is also made … to project the rural and urban labour force and migration forward to 2020, on the basis of the 2005 one per cent …
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affect responses to questions about income and consumption adequacy. Controlling for migration, results show that isolation …
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This paper surveys the causes and consequences of late 19th century globalization, as well as the anti-globalization backlash of that period.
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