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Exponential or power distance-decay for commuting? : an alternative specification

Vries, Jacob J. de; Nijkamp, Peter; Rietveld, Piet - 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...

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Ethnic drift and white flight : a gravity model of neighborhood formation

Bakens, Jessie; Florax, Raymond J. G. M.; Mulder, Peter - 2016

a gravity model for neighborhoods to assess the role of ethnicity in intra-urban residential relocations. Migration …

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Commuting, children and the gender wage gap

Borghorst, Malte; Mulalic, Ismir; Ommeren, Jos van - 2021

It has been documented that the gender pay gap strongly increases after the birth of the first child. We focus on Denmark and show that gender differences regarding commuting play an important role in explaining this. We offer 3 pieces of evidence. First, the gender pay and commuting gaps come...

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U.S. immigration reform and the dynamics of Mexican migration

Altangerel, Khulan; Ours, Jan C. van - 2017

migration through legalization of unauthorized immigrants, increasing border security and sanctioning employers who hired … unauthorized immigrants. Our paper investigates how the IRCA affected the migration dynamics of Mexican immigrants focusing on … their age of onset of migration and the duration of their first trip. We find that the IRCA had a positive effect in …

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Do firms or workers drive the foreign acquisition wage premium?

Rösch, Marcus; Gerritse, Michiel; Karreman, Bas; Oort, … - 2022

We decompose the wage premium after foreign acquisitions of Dutch domestic firms into the constituent firm- and worker-level premia. Firm-level premia grow up to 3.5%, accounting for the majority of the acquisition premium. Worker-level premia by contrast, grow up to 1% and only materialize with...

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Remittances and their effect on emigration intentions in Egypt, Morocco and Turkey

Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Groenewold, George; Fokkema, Tineke - 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. …

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Unsuccessful subjective well-being assimilation among immigrants : the role of faltering perceptions of the host society

Hendriks, Martijn; Burger, Martijn J. - 2018

whose societal conditions strongly improved by migration and immigrants who arrived after childhood. Faltering societal …

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