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Climatic factors as determinants of international migration
Beine, Michel; Parsons, Christopher A. - 2012 - This version: February 2012
We examine environmental factors as potential determinants of international migration. We distinguish between unexpected short-run factors, captured by natural disasters, as well as long-run climate change and climate variability. Building on a simple neo-classical model we use a panel dataset...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009503816
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Do Natural Hazards Cause International Migration?
Gröschl, Jasmin - 2016
The estimated amount of people affected by natural hazards stands at a staggering number of about 243 million people per year. While not all of the affected move across borders, international migration potentially provides an adaptation mechanism to natural hazards. The aim of this paper is to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978452
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Between hope and despair : Egypt's revolution and migration intentions
Giesing, Yvonne; Hassan, Reem - 2021
We study the effect of the 2011 Egyptian revolution and its aftermath on migration intentions of the Egyptian youth. We measure revolution intensity using the spacial variation in the number of deaths during the revolution from the Statistical Database of the Egyptian Revolution Wikithawra and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012602185
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Dissecting Network Externalities in International Migration
Beine, Michel A. R.; Docquier, Frédéric; Ozden, Caglar - 2021
Existing migrant networks play an important role in explaining the size and structure of immigration flows. They affect the net benefits of migration for future migrants by lowering assimilation costs (‘self-selection’ channel) and increase the probability of potential migrants to obtain a...
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Explaining spatial patterns of foreign employment in Germany
Lehmann, Robert; Nagl, Wolfgang - 2017 - This version: February 12, 2017
This paper investigates the main determinants of the regional representation of foreign employees in Germany. Since migration determinants are not necessarily the same for workers of different nationalities, we explain spatial patterns not only for total foreign employment but also for the 35...
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Weather shocks and migration intentions in Western Africa : insights from a multilevel analysis
Bertoli, Simone; Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel; … - 2020
We use a multilevel approach to characterize the relationship between weather shocks and (internal and international) migration intentions. We combine individual survey data on migration intentions with measures of localized weather shocks for Western African countries over 2008-2016. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012157241
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Why Is the Roy-Borjas model unable to predict international migrant selection on education? : evidence from urban and rural mexico
Leopold, Stephan; Ruhose, Jens; Wiederhold, Simon - 2023
The Roy-Borjas model predicts that international migrants are less educated than nonmigrants because the returns to education are generally higher in developing (migrant-sending) than in developed (migrant-receiving) countries. However, empirical evidence often shows the opposite. Using the case...
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Does school autonomy make sense everywhere? : panel estimates from PISA
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Link, Susanne; Woessmann, Ludger - 2011
Decentralization of decision-making is among the most intriguing recent school reforms, in part because countries went in opposite directions over the past decade and because prior evidence is inconclusive. We suggest that autonomy may be conducive to student achievement in well-developed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009378381
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Financial development and income inequality
Jauch, Sebastian; Watzka, Sebastian - 2011
We analyze the link between financial development and income inequality for a broad unbalanced dataset of 138 developed … and developing countries over the years 1960 to 2008. Using credit-to-GDP as measure of financial development, our results … reject theoretical models predicting a negative impact of financial development on income inequality measured by the Gini …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009489294
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Does School Autonomy Make Sense Everywhere? Panel Estimates from PISA
Hanushek, Eric A.; Link, Sebastian; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021
Decentralization of decision-making is among the most intriguing recent school reforms, in part because countries went in opposite directions over the past decade and because prior evidence is inconclusive. We suggest that autonomy may be conducive to student achievement in well-developed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315949