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The efficient mobility of goods and labour is one of the most important features of a functioning economy. Using data …-induced restrictions to mobility. These restrictions operated through a system of checkpoints, roadblocks and other barriers installed by … barriers to mobility have had a significant negative effect on employment, wages and days worked per month. Wages are most …
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including urban costs, it is shown that also increasing costs of freight transportation may give incentives to migration of …? Are migration flows correlated to changes in concentration of urban population? In the empirical investigation, population … urban units. On the regional level, demographic data (natural growth, matrices of urban and rural migration, external …
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Putnam (1995)'s seminal work was one of the first to describe the decline of social capital in the US after the 1960s, a period that saw a large increase in the flow of immigrants into the US. Using the Volunteer Supplement of the September Sample of the Current Population Survey (CPS) between...
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High levels of net migration to the UK have contributed to growing cultural diversity, and researchers are turning …
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-enlargements. The aim of the paper is to investigate the regional settlement and migration patterns of immigrants mostly recognized by … persistent pattern of domestic migration towards central regions for this group. Children of immigrants born in Norway, education … and their families show strong and positive relationship between domestic migration and regional employment change due to …
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Combining a spatial equilibrium model with a search-matching unemployment model, this paper analyzes the willingness to pay for regional amenities and the regional quality of life when wages, rents, and unemployment risk compensate for local amenities and disamenities. The results are compared...
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This research project ranks German regions with help of interregional migration data instead of gross domestic product … respect to aggregate interregional migrate are based on a discrete choice of model of migration decisions. Given some … assumptions on the nature of migration costs and a structural model using double exponential extreme value function, the …
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The effect of economic fluctuations, region type and human capital. Traditionally, people are believed to follow jobs, but a contradictory view has also gained popularity. In this study, two methods are used to analyse regional growth in Finland between 1990 and 2010. The results from the...
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unemployment, and inter-regional labour migration. The RHOMOLO model is parameterised by estimating the key structural parameters … channels of adjustment to macro-economic and policy shocks in the EU. In contrast, labour migration plays a secondary role in …
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This paper derives a gravity equation for commuter flows from a simple spatial labor market model based on the classic model developed by Anderson and Van Wincoop in the context of international trade. The approach shows the importance of taking into account the effect of the economic structure...
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