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Does development reduce migration?
Clemens, Michael A. - 2014
The most basic economic theory suggests that rising incomes in developing countries will deter emigration from those countries, an idea that captivates policymakers in international aid and trade diplomacy. A lengthy literature and recent data suggest something quite different: that over the...
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Migration, innovation, and growth: an African story?
Mbaye, Linguère Mously; Tani, Massimiliano - 2019
This chapter brings new evidence on the relationship between short-term labour mobility, as proxied by tourism flows, and innovation in Africa. Using data from 34 African countries over the period 2011-2016 sourced from the World Bank's Enterprise Survey, we find that short-term mobility...
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Impact of temporary migration on long-run economic development : the legacy of the sent-down youth program
Gørgens, Tue; Meng, Xin; Zhao, Guochang - 2024
migration impacted rural economic development in the regions that received a larger number of SDY per capita relative to regions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014525019
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Types of spatial mobility and the ethnic context of destination neighbourhoods in Estonia
Mägi, Kadi; Leetmaa, Kadri; Tammaru, Tiit; Ham, Maarten van - 2015
, intra-urban mobility, suburbanisation, and long-distance migration) for residents of the segregated post-Soviet city of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011428182
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Digging up trenches : populism, selective mobility, and the political polarization of Italian municipalities
Bellodi, Luca; Docquier, Frédéric; Iandolo, Stefano; … - 2024
We study the effect of local exposure to populism on net population movements by citizenship status, gender, age and education level in the context of Italian municipalities. We present two research designs to estimate the causal effect of populist attitudes and politics. Initially, we use a...
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How immigration grease is affected by economic, institutional and policy contexts : evidence from EU labor markets
Guzi, Martin; Kahanec, Martin; Kureková, Lucia Mýtna - 2015
Theoretical arguments and previous country-level evidence indicate that immigrants are more fluid than natives in responding to changing labor shortages across countries, skill-groups or industries. The diversity across EU member states enables us to test this hypothesis across various...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283156
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New evidence on mobility and wages of the young and the old
Hansen, Jörgen; Lkhagvasuren, Damba - 2015
human capital theory. Instead, we propose a simple dynamic extension of the Roy model, where worker migration and wages are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308399
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Aggregate-level migration studies as a tool for forecasting future migration streams
Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2000
Assessing the migration potential and predicting future migration streams are among the most relevant, yet least well … understood topics of migration research. The usual approach taken to address aggregate-level prediction problems is to fit ad hoc … application to the case of EU-enlargement and the ensuing migration streams to be expected from Eastern Europe. …
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Migrant networks and job search outcomes : evidence from displaced workers
Colussi, Tommaso - 2015
This paper investigates how immigrants' job search outcomes are affected by the labor market outcomes of workers from the same country of origin they are connected to. Connections are identified based on having worked for the same firm in the past. Using matched employer-employee micro data from...
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Risk attitudes and migration
Akgüç, Mehtap; Liu, Xingfei; Tani, Massimiliano; … - 2015
measured risk attitudes and their consequences for migration. We also investigate whether substantial changes in the risk …
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