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Is there convergence of Russia's regions? : exploring the empirical evidence ; 1995 - 2010
Lehmann, Hartmut; Silvagni, Maria Giulia - 2013
This paper analyzes convergence in per capita gross regional product of Russia's regions during the period 1995-2010, when regional data are available. Using a panel regression framework we find no evidence for beta-convergence. Instead we find divergence, which is, however, attenuated over...
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The role of unemployment and job change when estimating the returns to migration
Emmler, Julian; Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2020
Estimating the returns to migration from East to West Germany, we focus on pre-migration employment dynamics, earnings … in earnings and employment during the last few months before migration. We find sizeable positive earnings and employment … gains of migration both in comparison to staying or job change. The gains vary considerably with pre-migration earnings and …
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Income increase and moving to a better neighbourhood : an enquiry into ethnic differences in Finland
Vaalavuo, Maria; Ham, Maarten van; Kauppinen, Timo M. - 2017
of residence. Based on multinomial logit modelling of migration outcomes, we found that an increase in income is …
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Why do people still live in East Germany?
Hunt, Jennifer - 2000
able to explain the downward trend in east to west migration using wage and unemployment information. Convergence in hourly …
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Driving, dropouts, and drive-throughs : mobility restrictions and teen human capital
Bostwick, Valerie; Severen, Christopher - 2023
We provide evidence that graduated driver licensing (GDL) laws, originally intended to improve public safety, impact human capital accumulation. Many teens use automobiles to access both school and employment. Because school and work decisions are interrelated, the effects of automobile-specific...
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Green cities? : urbanization, trade and the environment
Borck, Rainald; Pflüger, Michael - 2015
This paper establishes a simple theoretical framework which comprises key forces that shape the structure and interrelation of cities to study the interdependencies between urban evolution and the environment. We focus on the potential of the unfettered market forces to economize on emissions. A...
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Spatial and social mobility in England and Wales: moving out to move on?
Buscha, Franz; Gorman, Emma; Sturgis, Patrick - 2020
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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Migration and urbanisation in post-apartheid South Africa
Bakker, Jan David; Parsons, Christopher A.; Rauch, Ferdinand - 2016
restrictions. Exploting this exogenous variation, we study the effect of migration on urbanisation and the distribution of … population. In particular, we test if migration inflows led to displacement, path dependence, or agglomeration in destination … migration shocks can foster urbanisation in the medium run. …
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The crisis and job guarantees in urban India
Dhingra, Swati; Machin, Stephen - 2020
This paper uses a new field survey of low-wage areas of urban India to show that employment and earnings were decimated by the lockdown resulting from the Covid-19 crisis. It examines workers' desire for a job guarantee in this setting. Workers who had a job guarantee before the crisis were...
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Inequality, reordering and divergent growth : processes of neighbourhood change in dutch cities
Modai-Snir, Tal; Ham, Maarten van - 2018
The socio-economic mosaic of urban neighbourhoods changes under the influence of three distinctive distributional processes: reordering of the socio-economic position of urban neighbourhoods; changing levels of inequality between neighbourhoods; and an overall growth or decline in income levels...
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