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Der vormoderne Allokationsprozess von Arbeit in Deutschland

Pierenkemper, Toni; Kendzia, Michael J. - 2010

The paper provides a historical overview of the pre-modern allocation of work within the territory of the later Germany from the 18th until the middle of the 19th century. We explore how the social allocation of work during the feudal system took place and trace back the development of wage...

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Migration, migrants and policy in the United Kingdom

Hatton, Timothy J.; Wheatley Price, Stephen - 1999

This paper draws together, in the form of a survey, a number of different aspects of the United Kingdom's international migration experience since the Second World War. The areas covered include changes in the volume and composition of international migration and the factors influencing...

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Wage and employment determination in volatile times : Sweden 1913 - 1939

Holmlund, Bertil - 2012

The paper studies wage and employment determination in the Swedish business sector from the mid-1910s to the late 1930s. This period includes the boom and bust cycle of the early 1920s as well as the Great Depression of the early 1930s. The events of the early 1920s are particularly intriguing,...

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Homeward bound : how migrants seek out familiar climates

Obolensky, Marguerite; Tabellini, Marco; Taylor, Charles A. - 2024

This paper introduces the concept of "climate matching" as a driver of migration and establishes several new results. First, we show that climate strongly predicts the spatial distribution of immigrants in the US, both historically (1880) and more recently (2015), whereby movers select...

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China's lesser known migrants

Quheng, Deng (contributor); Gustafsson, Björn (contributor) - 2006

In China hukou (the household registration system) imposes barriers on permanent migration from rural to urban areas … counterparts left behind in rural China. The probability of becoming a permanent migrant is positively related to parental … informal routes. -- China ; hukou ; rural-to-urban migration …

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Chinese immigrants in Vancouver : quo vadis?

Guo, Shibao (contributor); DeVoretz, Don J. (contributor) - 2006

This paper reports findings from a Vancouver study which examines the settlement and adaptation experience of Chinese immigrants in Vancouver. The study reveals that non-economic reasons, such as the environment, education and citizenship, constituted the primary motivations for Chinese...

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The effects of aging on migration in a transition economy : the case of China

Bodvarsson, Örn B.; Hou, Jack W. - 2010

China has been experiencing two major demographic sea changes since the late 1970s: (i) Internal migration, primarily …. The basic question posed in this paper is: How are aging and migration related in post-reform China? We argue that there … empirically the relationship between origin age distribution and interprovincial migration in China using province-level census …

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China’s higher education expansion and its labor market consequences

Li, Shi; Xing, Chunbing - 2010

Using a 1/5 random draw of the 1% census of 2005, we investigate how China’s higher education expansion commenced in … school graduate. That of the college graduate deceased, but only slightly and not significantly. -- China ; higher education …

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Migration and urban poverty and inequality in China

Park, Albert; Wang, Dewen - 2010

influences measurements of urban poverty and inequality in China, and also compares how other indicators of well-being differ for … ; inequality ; social protection ; China …

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Chinese immigrants in the US labor market : effects of post-tiananmen immigration policy

Orrenius, Pia M.; Zavodny, Madeline; Kerr, Emily - 2012

around the world. The U.S. government responded to the events in China by enacting multiple measures to protect Chinese … measures - highly-educated immigrants from mainland China experienced significant employment and earnings gains during the 1990 …

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