Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 227
Cover Image
Parental migration, investment in children, and children's non-cognitive development : evidence from rural China
Jiang, Hanchen; Yang, Xi - 2019
Many children worldwide are left behind by parents who are migrating for work. While previous literature has studied the effect of parental migration on children's educational outcomes and cognitive achievements, this study focuses on how parental migration affects children's non-cognitive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149247
Cover Image
It's the way people move! : labour migration as an adjustment device in Russia
Pastore, Francesco; Semerikova, Elena - 2020
This paper aims to assess the role of migration as an adjustment mechanism device to favor convergence across states and regions of Russia. In contrast to previous studies, we use variations in the population of a region as a proxy of its net migration rate and apply spatial econometric...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012147367
Cover Image
Welfare magnets and internal migration in China
Jin, Zhangfeng - 2020
This study examines the causal effects ofwelfare benefits on internal migration decisions. Using a quasi-experimentalmigration reform across 283 Chinese cities from 2002 to 2015, combined with a difference-in-differences setup, Ishowthat improvedwelfarebenefitssubstantially increasemigration....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012177735
Cover Image
Natural hazards and internal migration : the role of transient versus permanent shocks
Pavel, Tanvir; Hasan, Syed; Halim, Nafisa; Mozumde, Pallab - 2018
We analyse internal migration triggered by natural disasters in Bangladesh. We conducted a survey in nine coastal districts and two major cities in Bangladesh to investigate whether floods and cyclones, which can be considered as transient shocks, affect interregional migration differently...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129946
Cover Image
The forest behind the tree : heterogeneity in how US governor's party affects black workers
Tchuente, Guy; Kakeu, Johnson; Francois, John Nana - 2021
Income inequality is a distributional phenomenon. This paper examines the impact of U.S governor's party allegiance (Republican vs Democrat) on ethnic wage gap. A descriptive analysis of the distribution of yearly earnings of Whites and Blacks reveals a divergence in their respective shapes over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012627858
Cover Image
Managing the impact of climate on migration : evidence from Mexico
Chort, Isabelle; De La Rupelle, Maëlys - 2022
While there is a growing literature on the impact of climate and weather-related events on migration, little is known about the mitigating effect of different policies directed to the agricultural sector, or aimed at insuring against environmental disasters. This paper uses state-level data on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012806783
Cover Image
The retirement migration puzzle in China
Chen, Simiao; Jin, Zhangfeng; Prettner, Klaus - 2020
gender. Retirees migrate for risk sharing and family protection mechnisms, reducing market production of their families in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012156545
Cover Image
Family unification, siblings, and skills
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Regets, Mark C. - 2018
family members. Although emphasizing the importance of the nuclear family, the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform and a … criteria matched to 1990 Census data, we examine the effect of family admissions on immigrant education, selfemployment, and … earnings. Of particular relevance to the current debate, we also examine the effect of one of the family-based admission …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012150155
Cover Image
Retirement, housing mobility, downsizing and neighbourhood quality : a causal investigation
Ha Trong Nguyen; Mitrou, Francis; Zubrick, Stephen R. - 2021
exploits the discontinuity in the eligibility ages for state pension as an instrument for the endogenous retirement decision …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012585807
Cover Image
Job location decisions and the effect of children on the employment gender gap
Albanese, Andrea; Nieto, Adrián; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2022
We study the effect of childbirth on local and non-local employment dynamics for both men and women using Belgian social security and geo-location data. Applying an eventstudy design that accounts for treatment effect heterogeneity, we show that 75 percent of the effect of the birth of a first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013258938