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Antalya and Muğla provinces located in southwestern Turkey have emerged as the new magnets for internal migration in … of the gravity model. The factors that affect the migration to Antalya and Muğla seem to be the same and their effects on … services sector, appear as the main attraction fueling this migration. Surprisingly, the pleasant climates of the two provinces …
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the past literature. However, using instrumental variables based on migration enclaves, we show that immigrants have a …
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available on overall moves (1981-1995) and asylum migration (1984-1995). The estimation results confirm the importance of the … may drive international migration from developing to developed countries. Furthermore, we look on the relationship between … trade, development and migration. Empirical studies focusing on international migration from LDCs so far are very scarce …
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Empirical research on the determinants of international migration including the LDCs has so far neglected one important … issue: the complex relationship of development and migration. Since the beginning of the 1990s several arguments have been … discussed which hint at the possibility that progress in development of less developed regions might lead to more migration …
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Using register data from the IAB employment sample, this paper studies the wage structure in the German labor market throughout the years 1992-2001. Wage dispersion has generally been rising. The increase was more pronounced in East Germany and occurred predominantly in the lower part of the...
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Despite the EU emphasis on the 1995 Barcelona process, trade integration with the Mediterranean (MED) countries is still underdeveloped. To contrast the success of EU integration with MED countries and that with the new EU members, we compute the trade potential of these EU partners from 1995 to...
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In this paper we analyze economic and spatial determinants of interregional migration in Kazakhstan using quarterly … panel data on region to region migration in 2008-2010. In line with traditional economic theory we find that migration is … populated regions. Furthermore, distance has a strong negative impact on migration, indicating high migration related costs and …
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This paper presents an empirical assessment of the endogenous optimum currency area theory. Frankel and Rose (1998) study the endogeneity of a currency union through the lens of international trade flows. Our study extends Frankel and Rose's model by using FDI flows to test the original theory...
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The main goal of regionalization is the creation of free trade areas and the guarantee for countries to accede to a widened market. Many studies dealing with the effects of regional free trade agreements on trade flows already exist in the economic literature and the explosion in the number of...
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Since the early 1990s many empirical studies have been conducted on the impact of international migration on … the data (cross-section or panel) and the estimation technique. Elasticities vary between countries in ways that cannot be …
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