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The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of air pollution (measured by satellite data of Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD)) on net outmigration. Using data from the 2011 and 2016 National Population and Housing Censuses for 31 provinces of Iran and applying a panel fixed effects estimation...
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This paper analyses the effect of the presence of German language learning opportunities abroad on migration to Germany … that the number of language institutes of the GI in a country is positively correlated with migration from that country to … country is exogenous to migration flows from that country to Switzerland. We find that the institutes of the GI also affect …
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Recent surveys of the literature on climate change and migration emphasize the important diversity of outcomes and …
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This paper estimates the impacts of climate change in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) on migration and other economic outcomes …. I develop a quantitative spatial model that captures the role of trade networks, migration barriers, and agricultural …, by the end of the century, reduces SSA real GDP per capita by 1.8 percent and displaces 4 million individuals. Migration …
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We analyze the migration drivers within the European Union countries. For a set of 23 EU countries over the 1995 … addition, 1000 PPP Euro increase in the difference in net annual salaries increases net migration by approximately 50 and 42 …
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International migration flows largely reflect demographic patterns and economic opportunities. Migration flows increase … unemployment, low wages, and high population growth. Migration flows decrease in the geographic and cultural distance between the … potential origin and destination, and in other migration costs. To the extent that migrants are employed, immigration can …
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We examine environmental factors as potential determinants of international migration. We distinguish between … on a simple neo-classical model we use a panel dataset of bilateral migration flows for the period 1960-2000, the time … whole, we find little direct impact of climatic change on international migration in the medium to long run across our …
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Emigration of young, motivated individuals may deprive countries-of-origin of entrepreneurs. We isolate exogenous variation in a large emigration wave from Italy between 2008 and 2015 by interacting diaspora networks with economic pull factors in destination countries, and find that larger...
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We exploit the 1997 school reform that increased compulsory schooling from 5 to 8 years to investigate the causal effect of education on emigration intentions. Our IV estimates indicate that an additional year of schooling increases the probability of reporting the intention to emigrate by 24...
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? Combining industry-level patenting and migration data from 32 European countries, we show that emigration in fact positively …
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