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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 … integration outcomes. …
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Childhood determinants of internal youth migration in Senegal
Herrera, Catalina; Sahn, David E. - 2020
childhood socioeconomic determinants in later youth migration decisions to rural and urban areas. RESULTS: We find that young …) likely are their daughters to move to urban (rural) areas. Young individuals who spend their childhood in betteroff … households are more likely to move to urban areas. The presence of younger siblings during childhood increases the propensity of …
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Are ghettos good or bad? : evidence from US internal migration
Zhang, Junfu; Liang, Zheng - 2014
It is difficult to determine whether ghettos are good or bad, partly because racial segregation may have some effects that are unobservable. To overcome this challenge, we present a migration choice model that allows for estimating the overall effects of racial segregation. The key idea...
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Population decline in Lithuania : who lives in declining regions and who leaves?
Ubarevičienė, Rūta; Ham, Maarten van - 2016
Since the 1990s, Lithuania lost almost a quarter of its population, and some regions within the country lost more than 50% of their residents. Such a sharp population decline poses major challenges to politicians, policy makers and planners. This study aims to get more insight into the recent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011528102
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Regional migration, insurance and economic shocks : evidence from Nicaraguax
Millán, Teresa Molina - 2015
To test whether transfers sent and received by regional migrants serve an insurance role, this paper estimates the causal impact of income shocks at a migrant's origin and destination location on the bilateral transfer of funds. Using rainfall shocks in rural Nicaragua, I find that migrants aged...
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The effect of migration on income growth and convergence : meta-analytic evidence
Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2009
We compare a set of econometric studies that measure the effect of net internal migration in neoclassical models of long-run real income convergence and derive 67 comparable effect sizes. The precision-weighted estimate of beta convergence is about 2.7%. An increase in the net migration rate of...
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Measuring the income-distance tradeoff for rural-urban migrants in China
Zhang, Junfu; Zhao, Zhong - 2013
Rural-urban migrants in China appear to prefer nearby destination cities. To gain a better understanding of this phenomenon, we build a simple model in which migrants from rural areas choose among potential destination cities to maximize utility. The distance between a migrant's home village and...
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Internal migration and life satisfaction : well-being effects of moving as a young adult
Switek, Malgorzata - 2012
Migration typically leads to higher income, but its association with life satisfaction remains unclear. Is migration accompanied by an increase in life satisfaction? If it is, is the increase in income responsible or are other life domains driving the satisfaction changes? These two questions...
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The preference for larger cities in China : evidence from rural-urban migrants
Xing, Chunbing; Zhang, Junfu - 2013
China has long aimed to restrict population growth in large cities but encourages growth in small and medium-sized cities. At the same time, various government policies favor large cities. We conjecture that larger cities in China have more urban amenities and a better quality of life. We thus...
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Village political economy, land tenure insecurity, and the rural to urban migration decision : evidence from China
Giles, John; Mu, Ren - 2014
This paper investigates the impact of land tenure insecurity on the migration decisions of China's rural residents. A simple model first frames the relationship among these variables and the probability that a reallocation of land will occur in the following year. After first demonstrating that...
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