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This paper offers an overview of recent trends in regional employment and productivity, and describes the characteristics and geographic distribution of migrants in Australia. Additionally, it provides insights on the relationship between migration, employment, and productivity at the regional...
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China needs a new model of urbanisation to match the shift to a new model of growth. For decades, both urbanisation and … of China’s major cities, which defines functional urban areas based on settlement patterns and commuting zones rather … than cities defined as administrative units. The results show, among other things, that China has many more mega …
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China's remarkable growth in recent years has been often rather arbitrarily ascribed to a number of politico …
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China has experienced spectacular economic growth since 1978, averaging 8 to 9% per year. As a result, on average …, people's standard of living is far higher than ever before in China's history. However, economic disparities have also …
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With many regions in OECD countries facing declining working age populations, the geographical dimension of migration has become crucial for regional development. Where migrants settle within countries and how much they contribute to the local economies are important questions for policy makers....
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This book challenges the assumption that the major benefits of investment in rural education accrue to traditional agricultural activities, such as staples production. Indeed, rural economies are much more complex than such an assumption would allow and the benefits from education are,...
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This paper provides evidence on the impact of international migrants on regional innovation. The study combines administrative individual-level data covering all Australian residents with data on intellectual property rights applications such as patents, trademarks, and design rights. The...
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Migration refers to all movements of people into (immigration) or out (emigration) of a specific country or countries. Migrant populations are defined on the ground of the place of birth (foreign-born) or of the citizenship (foreigners). Migrants are classed under one of several categories:...
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This paper provides novel evidence on the regional impact of international migration on native employment and wages in Australia, using unique administrative individual-level panel data covering all residents from 2011 to 2018. Employing a differences-in-differences estimation strategy and a...
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