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The Effect of Migration on Income Convergence: Meta-Analytic Evidence
Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009
See also the article 'The effect of migration on income growth and convergence: Meta-analytic evidence' in <I>Papers in … that explicitly measure the effect of a net migration variable in neoclassical convergence models and derive 57 comparable … effect sizes. The data suggest that an increase in the net migration rate of one percentage point increases on average the …
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Regional Economic Impacts of Immigration: A Review
Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009
dissipate through adjustment processes such as factor mobility. However, this is ultimately an empirical issue. In this paper we …
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Diagnostic Tools for Nonlinearity in Spatial Models
Graaff, Thomas de; Florax, Raymond J.G.M.; Nijkamp, Peter; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 1998
There is an increasing awareness of the potential of nonlinear modeling in regional science, which can partly be explained by the recognition of the limitations of conventional equilibrium models in complex situationsand partly by the easy availability and accessibility of sophisticated...
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Signaling and Screening of Workers' Motivation
Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert A.J. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002
This paper develops a model in which workers are heterogeneous in their intrinsic motivation to work at a firm. We characterise optimal incentive schemes and examine how the firm can attract and select highly motivated workers to fill a vacancy when workers’ motivation is private information....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256027
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Interaction of Regional Population and Employment
Vermeulen, Wouter; Ommeren, Jos van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
improved by decomposing population growth into netinterregional migration and exogenous natural popu1ation developments. We … find thatemployment growth responds quite strongly to deviations from regional labour marketequilibria. Net migration is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255457
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Remittances and their Effect on Emigration Intentions in Egypt, Morocco and Turkey
Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Groenewold, George; Fokkema, Tineke - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005
What determines remittances – altruism or enlightened self-interest - and do remittances trigger additional migration …, receipt of remittances may contribute to new flows of migration, in particular in the case of Morocco. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255585
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Out of Africa: What drives the Pressure to emigrate?
Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Groenewold, George; Schoorl, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003
migration behaviour. Both ties within the household with household members who have international migration experience and ties …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255645
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Global Aging and Economic Convergence: A Real Option or Still a Case of Science Fiction?
Dalen, Hendrik P. van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007
potential growth phase may well disappear if supporting conditions for growth are absent. Large-scale migration is not expected … allocated generally to consumption rather than to investment purposes. Migration of a temporary nature in conjunction with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255772
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Ethnic Concentration and Human Capital Formation
Graaff, Thomas de; Groot, Henri L.F. de - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
international migration research, both from a methodological as well as an empirical perspective. The purpose of this paper is … twofold. First, it aims to provide an overview of that part of the migration literature that is concerned with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256838
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Exponential or Power Distance-decay for Commuting? An Alternative Specification
Vries, Jacob J. de; Nijkamp, Peter; Rietveld, Piet - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
In this paper we determine the effect of transport cost on commuting flows, on the basis of an analysis of home-to-work journeys between municipalities in Denmark. Special attention is given to a proper estimation method and the form of the distance-decay function. It appears that neither an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255555