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This paper investigates the impact of land tenure insecurity on the migration decisions of China's rural residents. A …
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We exploit the increase in immigration flows into western European countries that took place in the 2000s to assess whether immigration affects crime victimization and the perception of criminality among European natives. Using data from the European Social Survey, the Labour Force Survey and...
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ambiguous net effects on decisions about work, investment, and education. These net effects, and their mechanisms, are poorly …-household migration to high-wage jobs in Korea. This allows unusually reliable measurement of the reduced-form effect of these overseas …
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This paper examines two issues associated with the impact of migration on household income and poverty. First, existing … studies have typically overlooked a feature of migration that should be taken into account in estimating its impact, namely … the fact that migration changes the size of the household. The ‘corrected’ impact that does take the change in household …
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Two of the most salient trends surrounding the issue of migration and development over the last two decades are the … large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross …-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit less, leading to concerns that further increases in skilled migration …
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migration there over the period 1971-2001. What we find is that the stock of foreign students is an important predictor of … subsequent migration. This holds true whether or not the lagged endogenous variable is included. The relationship is robust to …
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This paper examines the causal impact of education on within-country migration. A major higher education reform took … education to all regions. The reform created exogenous variation in the regional supply of higher education. Using the reform as … migration probability during a three-year (six-year) follow-up period than vocational college graduates. …
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We analyse the impact of internal migration in China on natives' labour market outcomes. We find evidence of a large … be expected from further migration and urbanisation in China. …
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neighbourhoods. Our study addresses this research gap and examines the tendencies of migration among mixed ethnic unions in …
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This paper develops a tractable dynamic microeconomic model of migration decisions that is aggregated to describe the … behavior of interregional migration. Our structural approach allows us to deal with dynamic self-selection problems that arise … from the endogeneity of location choice and the persistency of migration incentives. Keeping track of the distribution of …
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