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In urban China, urban resident annual earnings are 1.3 times larger than long term rural migrant earnings as observed in a nationally representative sample in 2002. Using microsimulation, we decompose this difference into four sources, with particular attention to path dependence and statistical...
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La littérature économique récente sur l'impact de la migration sur le pays d'origine n'a pas réussi à analyser l …'effet de la migration sur le chômage et le taux de salaire surtout dans les zones urbaines. A l'aide d'un MEGC détaillé …'émigration marocaine vers l'Union Européenne, l'immigration subsaharienne vers le Maroc et la migration rural-urbain, l'impact sur le taux …
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migration data for five European countries over the 1980s and 1990s to perform quasi-structural estimations of a new economic …
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impact of immigration restrictive policies and permanent migration on the future evolution of remittances. Then I ask what …
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migration costs, which are continuously distributed. We derive the optimal marginal income tax rates at the equilibrium … semi-elasticity of migration on which we lack empirical evidence are crucial to derive the shape of optimal marginal income …
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increase female migration. We build several original indices of gender equality using principal component analysis. Our … the workplace is positively correlated with the migration of women, especially of the high-skilled. We observe the …
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discrimination leads to an increase of skilled women migration. The paper also provides an original index of gender discrimination … correlated with the migration of women (especially the high-skilled) and negatively correlated with the migration of men …
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Using a field experiment in China, we study whether migration status is correlated with attitudes toward risk …. Our results suggest that migration may be driven more by a stronger belief in one's ability to succeed in an uncertain and …
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This paper analyses migratory streams to Belgian municipalities between 1994-2007. The Belgian population register constitutes a rich and unique database of yearly migrant inflows and stocks broken down by nationality, which allows us to empirically explain the location choice of immigrants at...
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demand and downward pressure from migration. Using panel data at the province level, we find that migration has moderately …
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