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Self-Employment and Geographical Mobility in Germany

Reuschke, Darja - 2012

Little is known about the individual location behavior of self-employed entrepreneurs. This paper investigates the geographical mobility behavior of self-employed entrepreneurs, as compared to employees, thereby shedding new light onto the place embeddedness of self-employment. It examines...

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Why are Educated and Risk-Loving Persons More Mobile Across Regions?

Bauernschuster, Stefan - 2012

distance-related migration costs cannot explain the lower distance sensitivity of educated and risk-loving individuals …

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Returns to Regional Migration : Causal Effect or Selection on Wage Growth?

Kratz, Fabian - 2012

Human capital theory predicts pecuniary returns to regional migration, but also positive self-selection of migrants …. Therefore, when estimating the causal effect of migration one has to take care of potential self-selection. Several authors … estimates of the returns to migration. We use data from the SOEP 1984-2010. First we analyze the time pattern of the wage …

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Low Occupational Prestige and Internal Migration in Germany

Neubecker, Nina - 2013

This paper assesses a recent prediction of the theoretical migration literature, according to which migration may be … relationship between the incidence of low occupational prestige and the probability of internal migration in Germany and thus … reject our working hypothesis. We discuss the role of specific migration costs and occupational cultures as possible …

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Gender Differences in Residential Mobility : The Case of Leaving Home in East Germany

Geissler, Ferdinand; Leopold, Thomas; Sebastian, Pink - 2012

This paper investigates gender differences in the spatial mobility of young adults when initially leaving their parental home. Using individual data from 11 waves (2000-2010) of the SOEP, we examine whether female home leavers in East Germany move across greater distances than males and whether...

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Why are East Germans Not More Mobile? Analyzing the Impact of Local Networks on Migration Intentions

Boenisch, Peter; Schneider, Lutz - 2011

Despite poor regional labour market conditions East Germans exhibit a rather limited willing-ness of leaving their home region. Applying an IV ordered probit approach and using the German Socio Economic Panel (SOEP), we test a local network explanation of lower spatial mobility. Firstly, we find...

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Rural-urban migration, household vulnerability, and welfare in Vietnam

Loc Duc Nguyen; Raabe, Katharina; Grote, Ulrike - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 71 (2015), pp. 79-93

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The effect of hydro-meteorological emergencies on internal migration

Robalino, Juan; Jimenez Pereira, José Fernando; … - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 67 (2015), pp. 438-448

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Personalizing the middle-income trap : an inter-generational migrant view from rural Thailand

Rigg, Jonathan; Promphaking, Buapun; Le Mare, Ann - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 59 (2014), pp. 184-198

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Who are the climate migrants and where do they go? Evidence from rural India

Šedová, Barbora; Kalkuhl, Matthias - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 129 (2020), pp. 1-19

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