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Migration and globalization : challenges and perspectives for the research infrastructure

Kahanec, Martin (contributor); … - 2008

International migration of people is a momentous and complex phenomenon. Research on its causes and consequences, requires sufficient data. While some datasets are available, the nature of migration complicates their scientific use. Virtually no existing dataset captures international migration...

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Informing migration policies : a data primer

Carletto, Calogero; Larrison, Jennica; Özden, Çağlar - 2014

Researchers in many fields, such as demography, economics, and sociology, have established various data collection methodologies and principles to answer a range of academic and policy questions on migration. Although the progress has been impressive, some basic challenges remain. This paper...

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Using behavioral economic experiments at a large motor carrier : the context and design of the truckers and turnover project

Burks, Stephen V. (contributor) - 2007

The Truckers and Turnover Project is a statistical case study of a single firm and its employees which matches proprietary personnel and operational data to new data collected by the researchers to create a two-year panel study of a large subset of new hires. The project's most distinctive...

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World income inequality databases : an assessment of WIID and SWIID

Jenkins, Stephen - 2014

This article assesses two secondary data compilations about income inequality - the World Income Inequality Database … (WIIDv2c), and the Standardized World Income Inequality Database (SWIIDv4.0) which is based on WIID but with all observations …

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Appraising cross-national income inequality databases : an introduction

Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Lustig, Nora; Teles, Daniel - 2015

(SEDLAC). Two are based on secondary sources: "All the Ginis" (ATG) and the World Income Inequality Database (WIID); and one … is generated entirely through multiple-imputation methods: the Standardized World Income Inequality Database (SWIID …-based: CEPALSTAT, Income Distribution Database (IDD), LIS, PovcalNet, and Socio-Economic Database for Latin America and the Caribbean …

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Gravity predictions of international migration flows

Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Jesús; López Molina, Gonzalo - 2024

paper estimates simple gravity models of bilateral migration flows for the whole world and projects these models into the …

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A global assessment of human capital mobility : the role of non-OECD destinations

Artuc, Erhan; Docquier, Frédéric; Özden, Çağlar; … - 2014

Discussions of high-skilled mobility typically evoke migration patterns from poorer to wealthier countries, which ignore movements to and between developing countries. This paper presents, for the first time, a global overview of human capital mobility through bilateral migration stocks by...

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International migration : driver of political and social change?

Tuccio, Michele; Wahba, Jackline; Hamdouch, Bachir - 2016

This paper focuses on the impact of international migration on the transfer of political and social norms. Exploiting recent and unique data on Morocco, it explores whether households with return and current migrants bear different political preferences and behaviours than non-migrant families....

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International migration intentions and illegal costs : evidence from Africa-to-Europe smuggling routes

Friebel, Guido; Manchin, Miriam; Mendola, Mariapia; … - 2018

Irregular migrants from Africa and the Middle East flow into Europe along land and sea routes under the control of human smugglers. The demise of the Gaddafi regime in 2011 marked the opening of the Central Mediterranean Route for irregular border - crossing between Libya and Italy. This...

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Migration, political institutions, and social networks

Batista, Catia; Seither, Julia; Vicente, Pedro C. - 2018

What is the role of international migrants and, specifically, migrant networks in shaping political attitudes and behavior in migrant sending countries? Our theoretical framework proposes that migration might change individual social identities and thus stimulate intrinsic motivation for...

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