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Regional employment and population growth: Granger causality tests using panel data

Tervo, Hannu - European Regional Science Association - 2013

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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The labour market impact of mobility restrictions: Evidence from the West Bank

Cali, Massimiliano; Miaari, Sami - European Regional Science Association - 2013

The efficient mobility of goods and labour is one of the most important features of a functioning economy. Using data on Israeli closures inside the West Bank, we provide new evidence on the labour market effects of conflict-induced restrictions to mobility. These restrictions operated through a...

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The Russian Urban System in Transition: The View of New Economic Geography

Kauffmann, Albrecht - European Regional Science Association - 2013

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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How Immigration Reduced Social Capital in the US: 2005-2011

Freire, Tiago; Li, Xiaoye - European Regional Science Association - 2013

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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TOP TEAM DEMOGRAPHICS, INNOVATION AND BUSINESS PERFORMANCE: FINDINGS FROM ENGLISH FIRMS AND CITIES, 2008-9

Nathan, Max - European Regional Science Association - 2013

High levels of net migration to the UK have contributed to growing cultural diversity, and researchers are turning …

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Settlement and migration patterns among immigrants in Norway

Stambøl, Lasse Sigbjørn - European Regional Science Association - 2014

-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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The cohort size-wage relationship in Europe

Roth, Duncan; Moffat, John - European Regional Science Association - 2013

The demographic and education composition of European countries is changing: the population share of young individuals is declining while that of the highly educated is rising. This study estimates the impact of cohort size on wages using data on several European countries to cast light on the...

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Unequal distribution of salary from a gender perspective and the impact of recession on the catalan labor market

Adillón, M. Jesús Gómez; Piqué, M. Àngels Cabasés - European Regional Science Association - 2014

In order to highlight the uneven impact of recession on the labor market in Catalonia (Spain), especially regarding wage structure, this study examines the evolution of its main variables in the period 2005-2012 from a gender perspective. For ten years prior to recession, female employment...

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Downward drifting Sticky Floors? - Evidence on the Development of Wage Inequality Among Foreigners in Germany

Ludsteck, Johannes; Lehmer, Florian - European Regional Science Association - 2013

We employ the German social security register data to analyze the development of wage inequality among foreigners in Germany. The data show a sharp increase of wage inequality which exceeds the size observed for natives. The decomposition methods proposed by DiNardo et al. (1996) are employed to...

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Revaluation of the labor theories and the Central-Eastern-European labor market trends

Lipták, Katalin - European Regional Science Association - 2014

Abstract The author assumes that globalization and its regional and local impacts have an important role in nowadays' economics. Paradoxically, challenges arising from the unification of the world have made the necessity for regional and local answers stronger. The transformation of the labor...

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