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Proficiency in the host country’s language is an important factor for the successful labor market integration of immigrants. In this study, I analyze the effects of a language training program for professional purposes on the employment opportunities of participants in Germany. I apply an...
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migration of workers. For nearly all of the world's countries, our micro-founded model jointly endogenizes the effects of …. Climate change intensifies poverty and income inequality creating favorable conditions for urbanization and migration from low … ages) over the course of the 21st century. However, under current migration laws and policies, forcibly displaced people …
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This paper introduces the concept of "climate matching" as a driver of migration and establishes several new results … countries. Third, we exploit variation in the long-run change in average US climate from 1900 to 2019 and find that migration …. Finally, we project how climate change shapes the geography of US population growth by altering migration patterns, both …
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Slow onset climate change has the potential to cause significant migration flows. Scientists have recently made … considerable efforts to quantify these flows based on empirical methods. However, the literature on international migration has …, we aim to uncover a factor which likely contributes to the mixed picture in the literature: how migration flow data is …
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The COVID-19 pandemic created the largest experiment in working from home. We study how persistent telework may change energy and transport consumption and costs in Germany to assess the distributional and environmental implications when working from home will stick. Based on data from the...
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Recent surveys of the literature on climate change and migration emphasize the important diversity of outcomes and …
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This paper uses state-level data on migration flows between Mexico and the U.S. from 1999 to 2011 to investigate the … migration response to climate shocks and the mitigating impact of an agricultural cash-transfer program (PROCAMPO) and a … disaster fund (Fonden). While lower than average precipitations increase undocumented migration, especially from the most …
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For all climatic regions, mortality due to cold exceeds mortality due to heat. We examine whether cold-related mortality in adulthood varies positively with unusually benign ambient temperature during gestation, using data on over 13,500 Swedes from the Uppsala Birth Cohort Study born in...
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