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Xenophobic attacks, migration intentions and networks : evidence from the South of Africa

Friebel, Guido; Gallego, Juan Miguel; Mendola, Mariapia - 2011

We investigate how emigration flows from a developing region are affected by xenophobic violence at destination. Our empirical analysis is based on a unique survey among more than 1000 households, collected in Mozambique in summer 2008, a few months after a series of xenophobic attacks in South...

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Trends in the intergenerational transmission of education among black South Africans

Kwenda-Magejo, Prudence; Benhura, Miracle; Gwatidzo, Tendai - 2014

This paper investigates trends in intergenerational transmission of education among black South Africans - changes in correlation between parents' and children's education. Using data for 1954-1993 birth cohorts, we find a decrease in intergenerational transmission of education over the last...

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The long walk : considering the enduring spatial and racial dimensions of deprivation two decades after the fall of apartheid

Burger, Ronelle; Berg, Servaas van der; Walt, Sarel van der - 2015

progress made by the post-apartheid society and state. A multi-dimensional approach is required to assess progress because it … services. While there has been previous studies tracking poverty trends over segments of the post-apartheid period, no previous … work has considered multi-dimensional deprivation over the two decades following the official fall of apartheid. We adopt …

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Small-scale farming and food security : the enabling role of cash transfers in South Africa's former homelands

Fintel, Dieter von; Pienaar, Louw - 2016

, given the context of the 1913 and 1936 Land Acts that constrained this form of livelihood in former apartheid homelands …

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Homeward bound : how migrants seek out familiar climates

Obolensky, Marguerite; Tabellini, Marco; Taylor, Charles A. - 2024

This paper introduces the concept of "climate matching" as a driver of migration and establishes several new results. First, we show that climate strongly predicts the spatial distribution of immigrants in the US, both historically (1880) and more recently (2015), whereby movers select...

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Which Mexicans Are white? : enumerator-assigned race in the 1930 Census and the socioeconomic integration of Mexican Americans

Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2023

The authors explore unique complete-count data from the 1930 Census in which a respondent's race was assigned by enumerators and "Mexican" was one of the possible responses. Census enumerators frequently and selectively assigned a non-Mexican race - predominantly "white" - to U.S.-born...

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The Great Migration and educational opportunity

Baran, Cavit; Chyn, Eric; Stuart, Bryan A. - 2023

This paper studies the impact of the First Great Migration on children. We use the complete count 1940 Census to estimate selection-corrected place effects on education for children of Black migrants. On average, Black children gained 0.8 years of schooling (12 percent) by moving from the South...

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Gender, time use and models of the household

Apps, Patricia (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Determinants of income mobility and household poverty dynamics in South Africa

Woolard, Ingrid (contributor); Klasen, Stephan (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Regional income inequality in selected large countries

Heshmati, Almas (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Income inequality can be measured at different levels of aggregation such as global, continental, international and national levels. Here we consider income inequality at the national level but the focus is on the within country regional inequality. Regional inequality in income distribution in...

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