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Intergenerational Mobility in the Land of Inequality
Pinotti, Paolo; Britto, Diogo G. C.; Fonseca, Alexandre; … - 2022
We provide the first estimates of intergenerational income mobility for a developing country, namely Brazil. We measure formal income from tax and employment registries, and we train machine learning models on census and survey data to predict informal income. The data reveal a much higher...
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Assimilation through Marriage
Epstein, Gil S.; Pomerantz, Renana Lindner - 2012
During the last few decades cultural changes have been taking place in many countries due to migration. The degree to …
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Is Mobile Money Changing Rural Africa? Evidence from a Field Experiment
Batista, Catia; Vicente, Pedro C. - 2021
household-level idiosyncratic shocks. Importantly, we find that the availability of mobile money increased migration out of …
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Assimilation through Marriage
Epstein, Gil S.; Pomerantz, Renana Lindner - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2012
During the last few decades cultural changes have been taking place in many countries due to migration. The degree to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010895121
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The Impact of Immigration on the Geographic Mobility of New Zealanders
Stillman, Steven; Mare, David - 2007
migration on mobility using the "area-analysis" approach, which exploits the fact that immigration is spatially concentrated …
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How diverse can spatial measures of cultural diversity be? Results from Monte Carlo simulations of an agent-based model
Arribas-Bel, Daniel; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2014
Cultural diversity is a complex and multi-faceted concept. Commonly used quantitative measures of the spatial distribution of culturally-defined groups - such as segregation, isolation or concentration indexes - are often only capable of identifying just one aspect of this distribution. The...
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Agricultural Productivity Shocks, Labor Reallocation, and Rural-Urban Migration in China
Minale, Luigi - 2018
This paper analyses the way households in rural China use rural-urban migration and off-farm work as a response to … migration and labour supply histories, and match them to detailed weather information, which I use to instrument agricultural … both the participation and the intensive margin. Results suggest that farming activity decreases by 4.5% while migration …
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Split Decisions: Family finance when a policy discontinuity allocates overseas work
Clemens, Michael; Tiongson, Erwin - 2012
-household migration to high-wage jobs in Korea. This allows unusually reliable measurement of the reduced-form effect of these overseas …
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Life Satisfaction, Ethnicity and Neighbourhoods: Is There an Effect of Neighbourhood Ethnic Composition on Life Satisfaction?
Platt, Lucinda; Knies, Gundi; Nandi, Alita - 2014
Using a rich, nationally representative data set with a large sample of minorities and matched small area characteristics, we explore differences in life satisfaction for ethnic groups living in UK. We test the hypothesis that minorities will be less satisfied, which will in part be explained by...
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Cultural Diversity - A Matter of Measurement
Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2015
Cultural diversity - in various forms - has in recent years turned into a prominent and relevant research and policy issue. There is an avalanche of studies across many disciplines that measure and analyse cultural diversity and its impacts. Based on different perspectives and features of the...
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