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researchers who have at least a bachelor's from Italy and live abroad. There are three alternative country choices: the US …/Canada, the UK, and other EU countries. On average, the brainy Italians exhibit a higher predicted probability to go to the US …. Ceteris paribus, both push and pull factors are important. While having a Ph.D. from outside Italy predicts the UK choice …
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How does immigration affect incomes in the countries migrants go to, and how do rising incomes shape emigration from the countries they leave? The answers depend on whether people who migrate have higher or lower productivity than people who do not migrate. Theory on this subject has long...
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the natural experiment occurred in Italy in 2007, when a large inflow of migrants - many of them specialized in the supply …
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Empirical research on the determinants of international migration including the LDCs has so far neglected one important issue: the complex relationship of development and migration. Since the beginning of the 1990s several arguments have been discussed which hint at the possibility that progress...
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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 failed to come to a clear conclusion as many studies...
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Fifty years ago, China sent more than 16 million urban youths aged 16-19 to rural villages to work and they spent between 1 and 10 years there. This is known as the "sent-down youth" (SDY) program. This paper examines how this internal migration impacted rural economic development in the regions...
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the immigration of foreigners replaces domestic mobility from poor to rich regions. We focus on Italy, which is … ; Italy …
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small geographical units (NUTS-3). Exploiting the very favorable setup offered by Italy's features - the very high number of …
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the marital stability of natives. We take Italy as a case-study and we offer discrete-time event history models predicting …
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