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We present new evidence on the wage and mobility of young and old workers, which is difficult to explain using standard … factor driving the lower mobility among this group. Because of the higher moving costs, older workers require a higher wage …
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The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries host at least 2.4 million foreign domestic workers, who are legally excluded from national labor laws and regulations, thus placing them in precarious social, legal, and economic conditions in the GCC labor markets. Despite the recent growth of...
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"Guest workers" earn higher wages overseas on temporary low-skill employment visas. This wage effect can quantify global inefficiencies in the pure spatial allocation of labor between poorer and richer countries. But rigorous estimates are rare, complicated by migrant self-selection. This paper...
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measures of mobility to assess the evolution of weight, height, and body mass index during early childhood. We find that … mobility is quite high prior to primary school and then declines noticeably. However, there are important sources of …
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results show that except for some periods of intense mobility restrictions, relative to travel patterns in 2019, mobility in …
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investigate how the ethnic residential context changes for individuals as a result of different types of mobility (immobility …, intra-urban mobility, suburbanisation, and long-distance migration) for residents of the segregated post-Soviet city of … approach of tracking the changes in the ethnic residential context of individuals for all mobility types, we were able to …
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factors influencing the spatial mobility decisions of households, but little is known about how these factors influenced … mobility during the recent economic crisis. This paper uses rich individual level microdata from the last two Spanish censuses … mobility. Our finding suggest that the role, influence and interconnection of unemployment and homeownership in mobility …
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How quickly can we expect human mobility to resume to pre-pandemic levels after lockdowns? Does pandemic severity … affect the speed of post-lockdown recovery? Using real-time cross-city human mobility data from China and a difference …-in-difference-in-differences framework, we find that mobility in most cities resumed to normal six weeks after reopening. In contrast, the epicenter cities …
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We analyze the internal mobility of university graduates in Switzerland. An empirically interesting question because … explaining graduate mobility, we find that top performing students return less often than do low performers. As a consequence the …
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International student mobility is the most recognised element of Erasmus+, a major EU policy. Not enough is known about … answer the following three questions, whilst accounting for selection bias. First, does international student mobility (ISM … and Italy) and postgraduates (Italy only). Results indicate that mobility is positively associated with some outcome …
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