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This study examines the causal effects of welfare benefits on internal migration decisions. Using a quasi-experimental migration reform across 283 Chinese cities from 2002 to 2015, combined with a difference-in-differences setup, I show that improved welfare benefits substantially increase...
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) have been studied extensively, AD has not. I examine migration's impact on ability (a), education (h), and productive human …) residents' (migrants') average ability, with an ambiguous (positive) impact on average education and skill, and net skill drain …
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STEM-focused industries are critical to the innovation-driven economy. As many firms are running short of STEM workers, international immigrants are increasingly recognized as a potential for high-tech job recruitment. This paper studies STEM occupations in Sweden 2011–2015 and tests...
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The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental dimensions of any country. Yet it is often the missing statistic in all general statistics, demographics, and presentations about the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper...
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education (ℎ) and productive human capital 𝑠 = 𝑠(𝑎, ℎ), both for home country residents and skilled migrants, under the … 'vetting' immigration system (e.g., US H-1B program), which accounts for 𝑠. Findings are: i) Education increases with ability … on the average level of ℎ and 𝑠; thus, migrants' average ability and education is higher than that of non-migrants; iii …
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Concerns about the welfare of working children has over time produced a wide range of international and national interventions in the child labor market, culminating most recently in a commitment to eradicate the worst forms of child work via the attainment of target 8.7 of the Sustainable...
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parental migration affects children's non-cognitive development. We use longitudinal data of children in rural China and adopt …
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they take their daughters, and (3) the fact that parents of boy students spend more on their children’s education can be … human capital investment in girls in contemporary China when institutional arrangements result in high costs of schooling …
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countries (epitomized by China, Russia, Thailand, but also by Singapore) will be affected by a structural shortage of labour … dimension of its need of foreign labour, and its role in the Belt and Road Initiative it is China that should take the lead of a …
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This contribution investigates the opportunities of migration for developing countries. The benefits of migration for sending countries are often undervalued. But migrants may foster trade, remittances, innovations, investments back home, and even return home at some time with better human...
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