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internal migrants conditional on migration. We also study heterogeneity in the role of these factors for migrant types who … differ by skill group, age at migration, and reason of migration. We use data on male migrants from three rounds of Turkish … censuses 1985, 1990 and 2000 who choose among 67 provinces. We find that migrants are drawn to provinces with larger networks …
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. Yet the family (and decision-making in families) is typically ignored in macroeconomic models. In this chapter, we argue … that family economics should be an integral part of macroeconomics, and that accounting for the family leads to new answers … fluctuations, and argue that changes in family structure in recent decades have important repercussions for the determination of …
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This paper studies intergenerational mobility the transmission of family influence. We develop and estimate measures of …
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evidence of a differentiated effect of employment of members of the family versus hired workers on the business performance. A … of resources. We find evidence of a marginal productivity differential between family and hired labour and highlight …
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Many migrants have non-labour motives to migrate and they differ substantially in their migration behaviour. Family … for correlated unobserved heterogeneity across the migration and the divorce processes. The family migrants are divided … impact on the return of family migrants from less developed countries and less on the return of family migrants from …
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This paper identifies intermarriage (between non-citizens and citizens) as an important response mechanism to intensified immigration enforcement, particularly among Mexican non-citizens. Exploiting the temporal and geographic variation in the implementation of interior immigration enforcement...
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to whether or not send a migrant. Yet, the subsequent selection of which family members migrate and which stay behind …
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We study the impact of adult children's internal migration on the health and subjective well-being of elderly parents left behind, distinguishing between the gender of the migrant children. To overcome migration endogeneity, we exploit novel and exogenous variation in children's astrological...
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marital disruption on data from the nationally – representative 2009 Family and Social Subjects survey. We found that the … separation risks among natives, especially for couples with lower human capital. Our findings add to our understanding of family …
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For many immigrants, especially those from Central America and Mexico, it is common for a mother or father (or both) to migrate to the United States and leave their children behind. Then, after the parent(s) have achieved some degree of stability in the United States, the children follow. Using...
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