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measures of mobility to assess the evolution of weight, height, and body mass index during early childhood. We find that … mobility is quite high prior to primary school and then declines noticeably. However, there are important sources of …
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results show that except for some periods of intense mobility restrictions, relative to travel patterns in 2019, mobility in …
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This paper studies the dynamics of human mobility during the initial stage of the COVID-19 pandemic in countries around … the world. The main goal of the analysis is to empirically separate voluntary reductions in mobility driven by the …. Google human mobility dataset is used to track the dynamics of mobility across a wide range of categories (e.g. workplace …
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In this paper, we attempt to understand the determinants of mobility by introducing the concept of local social capital … to multiple equilibria (a world of local social capital and low mobility vs. a world of low social capital and high … propensity to move). It also shows that local social capital is systematically negative for mobility, and can be negative for …
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geographical mobility, lower. Families are larger (higher fertility and higher family size) with strong family ties, which is …
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Is the brain drain a curse or a boon for developing countries? This paper reviews what is known to date about the magnitude of the brain drain from developing to developed countries, its determinants and the way it affects the well-being of those left behind. First, I present alternative...
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This research argues that deep-rooted factors, determined tens of thousands of years ago, had a significant effect on the course of economic development from the dawn of human civilization to the contemporary era. It advances and empirically establishes the hypothesis that in the course of the...
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investigate how the ethnic residential context changes for individuals as a result of different types of mobility (immobility …, intra-urban mobility, suburbanisation, and long-distance migration) for residents of the segregated post-Soviet city of … approach of tracking the changes in the ethnic residential context of individuals for all mobility types, we were able to …
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We present new evidence on the wage and mobility of young and old workers, which is difficult to explain using standard … factor driving the lower mobility among this group. Because of the higher moving costs, older workers require a higher wage …
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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 specifications to historical data, and to...
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