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Persistent productivity gains to rural-urban migrants have been documented by a number ofresearchers. One interpretation of this result is that individuals learn higher value skills incities than they would have learned in less dense areas. Another explanation for this result,however, is that...
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This paper provides a simple theory of geographical mobility which simultaneously explainspeople’s choice of residences in space and the location of industry. Residences are chosenon the basis of the utility which mobile households obtain across locations...
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examine the labour market returns to inter-regional migration inGreat Britain... …
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The role of amenities in the flow of migrants has been debated for some years. This paperadvances an original model of amenities that work through household production instead ofdirectly through the utility function. Area characteristics (amenities) affect householdproduction, causing certain...
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While the allocative efficiency of mobility is typically considered to be positive but small in the long run, the induced changes in equality may be considerable in size. In practice, however, migrants typically improve their income position in comparison to those at home, stimulate the economic...
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Based on a wage curve approach we examine the labor market effects of migration in Germany. The wage curve relies on … wage and employment effects of migration simultaneously in a general equilibrium framework. For the empirical analysis we … vocational degree. The wage and employment effects of migration are moderate... …
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This paper updates and extends the Docquier-Marfouk data set on international migration byeducational attainment. We …
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This paper examines whether family and community migration experience affect theprobability of high school graduation …
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that industrial agglomeration improves the quality of the firmworkermatching process. Our method makes use of recent …
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The model of compensating differentials in regional labor markets was developed by Roback(1982). The model interprets regional differences in constant quality wages and rents ascompensating firms and residents for inter-regional differences in amenities. The modelassumes that the costs of...
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