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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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The regulation of migration in a transition economy : China's Hukou system

Bao, Shuming; Bodvarsson, Örn B.; Hou, Jack W.; Zhao, … - 2009

Unlike most countries, China regulates internal migration. Public benefits, access to good quality housing, schools … extraordinary surge of migration within China. In this study of interprovincial Chinese migration, we address two questions. First …

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Migrant opportunity and the educational attainment of youth in rural China

De Brauw, Alan (contributor); Giles, John (contributor) - 2006

attend high school in rural China. Change in the cost of migration is identified using exogenous variation across counties in …

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Elder parent health and the migration decision of adult children : evidence from rural China

Giles, John (contributor); Mu, Ren (contributor) - 2006

families in rural China. This paper asks how participation is affected by elder parent health. We find that younger adults are …

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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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Land rights insecurity and temporary migration in rural China

Rupelle, Maëlys de la; Deng, Quheng; Li, Shi; … - 2009

Like most other developing countries, China experiences huge migration outflows from rural areas. Their most striking …. -- Migration ; land rights insecurity ; China ; semiparametric censored regression models …

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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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