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The Returns to English-Language Skills in India
Azam, Mehtabul; Chin, Aimee; Prakash, Nishith - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
India's colonial legacy and linguistic diversity give English an important role in its economy, and this role has …-language skills in India, but the extent of these returns is unknown due to lack of a microdata set containing measures of both … earnings and English ability. In this paper, we use a newly available data set – the India Human Development Survey, 2005 – to …
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Aging and Migration in a Transition Economy: The Case of China
Bodvarsson, Örn B.; Hou, Jack W.; Shen, Kailing - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Post-reform China has been experiencing two major demographic changes, an extraordinary amount of internal migration and an aging population. We present a general migration model which captures the idea that older migrants have shorter durations in the destination but possibly larger general...
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The Winner Takes It All: Internal Migration, Education and Wages in Ethiopia
Blunch, Niels-Hugo; Laderchi, Caterina Cruggeri - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Previous studies of migration have mainly examined international dynamics. Yet, internal migration is an important issue, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. Using the 2001 Ethiopia Child Labor Survey, a nationally representative household survey, this paper examines internal migration in...
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Cultural Biases in Migration: Estimating Non-Monetary Migration Costs
Falck, Oliver; Lameli, Alfred; Ruhose, Jens - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Ever since Sjaastad (1962), researchers have struggled to quantify the psychic costs of migration. We monetize psychic cost as the wage premium for moving to a culturally different location. We combine administrative social security panel data with a proxy for cultural difference based on...
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Are Immigrants More Mobile Than Natives? Evidence from Germany
Schündeln, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Low rates of internal migration in many European countries contribute to the persistence of significant regional labor market differences. To further our understanding of the underlying reasons I study internal migration in Germany, using the Mikrozensus, a very large sample of households living...
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Internal Migration in the United States
Molloy, Raven; Smith, Christopher L.; Wozniak, Abigail - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
since the 1980s, reversing increases from earlier in the century. The decline in migration has been widespread across …
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Southwest as the New Internal Migration Destination in Turkey
Akarca, Ali T.; Tansel, Aysit - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Antalya and Muğla provinces located in southwestern Turkey have emerged as the new magnets for internal migration in the country. Characteristics of immigration from other provinces to these two are described, and analyzed in the context of the gravity model. The factors that affect the...
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Internal Migration and Life Satisfaction: Well-Being Effects of Moving as a Young Adult
Switek, Malgorzata - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Migration typically leads to higher income, but its association with life satisfaction remains unclear. Is migration accompanied by an increase in life satisfaction? If it is, is the increase in income responsible or are other life domains driving the satisfaction changes? These two questions...
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Strong versus Weak Ties in Migration
Giulietti, Corrado; Wahba, Jackline; Zenou, Yves - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper studies the role of strong versus weak ties in the rural-to-urban migration decision in China. We first develop a network model that puts forward the different roles of weak and strong ties in helping workers to migrate to the city. We then use a unique longitudinal data that allows...
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Are Ghettos Good or Bad? Evidence from U.S. Internal Migration
Zhang, Junfu; Zheng, Liang - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
decennial census data from 1980 to 2000, we provide new evidence that ghettos are bad. It is shown that both black and white …
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