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Intensified European integration, enlargement of the EU, and increasing migration activity worldwide have pushed … migration and migration policy to the forefront of the European agenda. This paper identifies the salient questions to be … addressed by any educated migration policy. It embeds this discussion into a systematic classification of economic migration …
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, intra-urban mobility, suburbanisation, and long-distance migration) for residents of the segregated post-Soviet city of …
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human capital theory. Instead, we propose a simple dynamic extension of the Roy model, where worker migration and wages are …
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measured risk attitudes and their consequences for migration. We also investigate whether substantial changes in the risk …
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able to explain the downward trend in east to west migration using wage and unemployment information. Convergence in hourly …
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matter of concern in the region. We study this issue for Uganda, investigating whether the migration of household members … migration of children has a significant positive impact on child school attendance rates while that of adults has a … significantly negative effect, and that remittances have no influence. These findings suggest that migration of children is indeed …
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We analyse the impact of internal migration in China on natives' labour market outcomes. We find evidence of a large … be expected from further migration and urbanisation in China. …
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We review developments in research on within-country migration, focusing on internal migration in the U.S. We begin by … describing approaches to modelling individuals' migration decisions and equilibrium outcomes across local areas. Next, we … summarize evidence regarding the impact of migration on individuals' outcomes, implications of migration for local labor market …
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Migration has long been considered one of the key mechanisms through which labor markets adjust to economic shocks. In … this paper, we analyze the migration response of American workers to two of the most important shocks that hit US … for the different migration responses triggered by the two shocks. Next, we present a model where workers are …
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different parts of the country, and tailed off for more recent cohorts. We also explore the role of domestic migration in …
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