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While researchers are increasingly reconceptualising international migration, less interest is being shown in …
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arbitrage theory that regions provide equal utility and compensating differentials. …
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experiencing particular life events affects mobility decision-making and behaviour throughout individual lifetimes. Yet although a … growing body of longitudinal research links mobility decision-making to subsequent moving behaviour, most studies focus solely …
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We analyze interaction effects of birth weight and the business cycle at birth on individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run...
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Cultural diversity is a complex and multi-faceted concept. Commonly used quantitative measures of the spatial distribution of culturally-defined groups – such as segregation, isolation or concentration indexes – are often only capable of identifying just one aspect of this distribution. The...
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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 … country's migration patterns. …
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Previous studies of migration have mainly examined international dynamics. Yet, internal migration is an important … survey, this paper examines internal migration in Ethiopia, focusing on the linkages among internal migration, education and … reap higher returns from their education as a main effect, as well as higher returns to their education from migration than …
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Ever since Sjaastad (1962), researchers have struggled to quantify the psychic costs of migration. We monetize psychic … geographic distance and pre-migration wage profiles, we find that migrants demand a (indexed with respect to local rents) wage … males and those who earn above average occupational wages before migration, more pronounced for geographically short moves …
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unobserved characteristics, I then estimate conditional logit models of the migration decision across the German federal states …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 …
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We review patterns in migration within the US over the past thirty years. Internal migration has fallen noticeably … since the 1980s, reversing increases from earlier in the century. The decline in migration has been widespread across … decline in migration remains elusive and requires further research, we find only limited roles for the housing market …
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