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New insights into the selection process of Mexican migrants.What can we learn from discrepancies between intentions to migrate and actual moves to the U.S.?
Chort, Isabelle - HAL - 2012
local wages. Mots-clés : Migration, Roy model, migrant self-selection, subjective data, shocks, Mexico …Comparing intentions to migrate and actual migration of Mexicans, I intend to assess the impact of unexpected shocks … and misevaluated costs on the materialization of migration plans. I show that both sets of reasons may explain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738891
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Determinants of Internal Migration among Senegalese Youth
HERRERA, Catalina; Sahn, David - HAL - 2013
models, we estimate the role of household and community characteristics during childhood in later youth migration decisions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010899844
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Climate Variability and Internal Migration: A Test on Indian Inter-State Migration
Dallmann, Ingrid; Millock, Katrin - HAL - 2013
We match migration data from the Indian census with climate data to test the hypothesis of climate variability as a … push factor for internal migration. The main contribution of the analysis is to introduce relevant meteorological …-state migration in India. The effect is significant for both male and female migration rates. Drought duration and magnitude as well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011025739
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On the Move Livelihood Strategies in Northern Ghana
Marchetta, Francesca - HAL - 2011
The households who live in the rural areas of Northern Ghana base their subsistence on natural resources, which are threatened by the progressive desertification and increased frequency of extreme weather events in the region. We draw on a field work and on extensive secondary data sources to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021747
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Overcoming inertia: insights from evolutionary economics into improved energy and climate policy
Lazaric, Nathalie; Maréchal, Kevin - HAL - 2010
The mainstream view in economics has been a key factor in designing climate policies. Given that the controversy over the “efficiency paradox” has shown that mainstream economics is not neutral in the way it deals with climate change, the purpose of this paper is to investigate what insights...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008791603
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Migrants as second-class workers in urban China? A decomposition analysis
Démurger, Sylvie; Gurgand, Marc; Shi, Li; Ximing, Yue - HAL - 2008
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010930208
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Les effets de la migration sur le chômage marocain : une analyse en équilibre général calculable statique
Karam, Fida; Decaluwé, Bernard - HAL - 2007
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010750487
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Do Migrants Follow Market Potentials? An Estimation of a New Economic Geography Model
Crozet, Matthieu - HAL - 2004
migration data for five European countries over the 1980s and 1990s to perform quasi-structural estimations of a new economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010750495
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When Migrant Remittances Are Not Everlasting, How Can Morocco Make Up?
Karam, Fida - HAL - 2008
impact of immigration restrictive policies and permanent migration on the future evolution of remittances. Then I ask what …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010750968
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Tax Me If You Can! Optimal Nonlinear Income Tax Between Competing Governments
Lehmann, Etienne; Simula, Laurent; trannoy, alain - HAL - 2013
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010899349