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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 … Database of the Egyptian Revolution Wikithawra and combine it with data on migration intentions from the Harmonized Survey of … migration intentions of youth, especially young men. Single women did not change their migration intentions, mainly due to their …

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Mobile internet access and the desire to emigrate

Adema, Joop; Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Poutvaara, Panu - 2022

In this paper, we present theory and global evidence on how mobile internet access affects desire and plans to emigrate. Our theory predicts that mobile internet access increases desire and plans to emigrate. Our empirical analysis combines survey data on 617,402 individuals from 2,120...

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Power shifts, emigration, and population sorting

Aklin, Michaël; Eichenauer, Vera - 2022

We investigate the consequences of a peaceful shift of power from one social group to another. Theoretically, we show that an individual's decision to stay put or migrate depends on the difference between the political preferences of groups and the change in tax. Empirically, we use the case of...

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Confined to stay : natural disasters and Indonesia's migration ban

Cinque, Andrea; Reiners, Lennart - 2022

This paper investigates the effects of international migration restrictions on communities' capacity to absorb income … migration as an adaptive strategy. Relying on a panel of the universe of Indonesian villages, we use a triple difference …

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Effects of emigration on gender norms in countries of origin

Azarnert, Leonid V.; Yakubenko, Slava - 2021

This paper studies the effect of emigration on gender norms in countries of migrants' origin. We use an instrumental variable strategy that allows us to estimate a causal effect of emigration on gender inequality. Our findings suggest that emigration to countries with low (high) levels of gender...

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EU enlargement, migration, and lessons from German unification

Sinn, Hans-Werner - 1999

The paper studies the role of international implications after EU enlargement. Based on a formal model with migration … costs for both capital and labor, it predicts a two-sided migration from the new to the old EU countries which is later … reversed. As the migration pattern chosen by market forces turns out to be effici e nt, migration should not be artificially …

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Immigration, political ideologies and the polarization of American politics

Dreher, Axel; Langlotz, Sarah; Matzat, Johannes; Mayda, … - 2020

over the medium-run, although the effects decline over time. The effects of migration are stronger if counties host …

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Modeling inter-regional patient mobility : does distance go far enough?

Irlacher, Michael; Pennerstorfer, Dieter; Renner, … - 2021

This paper estimates a theory-guided gravity equation of regional patient flows. In our model, a patient’s choice to consult a physician in a particular region depends on a measure of spatial accessibility that accounts for the exact locations of both patients and physicians. Introducing this...

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Quality of life in a dynamic spatial model

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Bald, Fabian; Roth, Duncan; … - 2020

We develop a dynamic spatial model in which heterogeneous workers are imperfectly mobile and forward-looking and yet all structural fundamentals can be inverted without assuming that the economy is in a stationary spatial equilibrium. Exploiting this novel feature of the model, we show that the...

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A macro-level analysis of adult-age language learning

Übelmesser, Silke; Weingarten, Severin - 2017

This article investigates the macro-level drivers of adult-age language learning. We construct a new dataset that covers German language learning in 77 countries (including Germany) for 1992-2006. Fixed-effects regressions show that language learning in the EU is strongly associated with...

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