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We exploit the increase in immigration flows into western European countries that took place in the 2000s to assess whether immigration affects crime victimization and the perception of criminality among European natives. Using data from the European Social Survey, the Labour Force Survey and...
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chances of translating available economic resources into mobility to less disadvantaged neighbourhoods are important. This … residential mobility. We analyse intra-urban residential mobility from low-income neighbourhoods into non … of residence. Based on multinomial logit modelling of migration outcomes, we found that an increase in income is …
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A recent surge in child migration to the U.S. from Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala has occurred in the context of … and child migration to the United States using novel, individual-level, anonymized data on all 178,825 U.S. apprehensions … poverty. Due to diffusion of migration experience and assistance through social networks, violence can cause waves of …
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We report a small-sample, preliminary evaluation of the economic impact of temporary overseas work by Haitian agricultural workers. This work occurs in the United States in the context of a pilot program designed as a form of post-disaster development assistance to Haiti. We find that the...
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suggest something quite different: that over the course of a "mobility transition", emigration generally rises with economic … development until countries reach upper-middle income, and only thereafter falls. This note quantifies the shape of the mobility … explain the mobility transition and numerous tests of its existence and characteristics in both macro- and micro-level data …
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Many governments seek to reduce emigration from low-income countries by encouraging economic development there. A large literature, however, observes that average emigration rates are higher in countries with sustained increases in GDP per capita than in either chronically poor countries or...
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The 2D:4D digit ratio, the ratio of the length of the 2nd digit to the length of the 4th digit, is often considered a proxy for testosterone exposure in utero. A recent study by Nicolaou et al. (2018) reported an association between the lefthand 2D:4D and self-employment (in a sample of about...
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We analyse the impact of internal migration in China on natives' labour market outcomes. We find evidence of a large … be expected from further migration and urbanisation in China. …
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migration impacted rural economic development in the regions that received a larger number of SDY per capita relative to regions …
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, intra-urban mobility, suburbanisation, and long-distance migration) for residents of the segregated post-Soviet city of … investigate how the ethnic residential context changes for individuals as a result of different types of mobility (immobility … approach of tracking the changes in the ethnic residential context of individuals for all mobility types, we were able to …
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