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The last one and a half centuries have witnessed dramatic changes in the world economy. The service (tertiary) sector, which at the beginning of the 20th century was of little importance relative to agriculture and manufacturing, has become the dominant sector today, accounting for 80% and more...
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This article investigates current age cohort effects on regional migration in Turkey and compares the results of this … countries for years whereas it is more recent subject in developing countries like Turkey. The waste amount of migration from … division of regional migration among the age groups represents a similar pattern with different degrees except some points. The …
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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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This paper advances in the literature on the migration of college students, which is not very large in Brazil … of attraction and repulsion of families are constructed for Brazilian municipalities. Therefore, migration decision may …) over the net migration index. This preliminary result has a very important policy implication, which is the fact that an …
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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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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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We study the impact of migration to the European Union on the volume of international trade in EU. We focus on Southern … countries as the migration originating countries. The specific question we address is how the stock of immigrants in the host … EU countries, migration from EEC countries actually has an adverse effect. For imports, the coefficient of the log of the …
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Inter-regional disparities are seen intensively at east-west direction in Turkey. Migration as a basic consequence of … at the national level policies in order to keep migration waves within the region. In this study; urbanization and city …-2010 period were analyzed. Diyarbakir region receives mass migration and unable to keep this migration within the region due to …
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coincided with the greatest waves of European migration (1880, 1910) in order to uncover the settlement patterns of migrants of … determined both the attractiveness of different US counties at the time of migration, as well as current levels of development … difference for long-term economic development whatsoever. This holds for the first and second wave of migration. Hence being …
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