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Types of Spatial Mobility and the Ethnic Context of Destination Neighbourhoods in Estonia
Mägi, Kadi - 2016
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001871
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Who Moves and for How Long : Determinants of Different Forms of Migration
Borodak, Daniela - 2013
This paper analyses the determinants and correlates of different forms of migration, including circular, temporary and permanent. Using Moldovan data we show that age, education, number of children in a household and social as well as economic development in the region of origin play a crucial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013081824
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Pulls of International Student Mobility
Kahanec, Martin - 2012
. International student mobility is an important channel through which high-skilled immigrants arrive. The purpose of this paper is to … identify some of the key determinants of international student mobility among higher education policies. For this purpose we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013113075
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Brain Drain and Inequality Across Nations
Docquier, Frédéric - 2006
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779028
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Climate Change, Migration and Voice : An Explanation for the Immobility Paradox
Beine, Michel A. R. - 2019
international voicing. Our results suggest that restrictions on mobility could result in increasing voicing, both within and between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861312
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Young Adults Living with Their Parents and the Influence of Peers
Adamopoulou, Effrosyni - 2016
This paper studies the impact of peer behavior on living arrangements of young adults in the U.S. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) we analyze the influence of high school friends on the nest-leaving decision of young adults. We achieve...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012985691
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Uneven Recovery from the COVID-19 Pandemic : Post-Lockdown Human Mobility Across Chinese Cities
Liu, Yanyan; Ma, Shuang; Mu, Ren - 2021
How quickly can we expect human mobility to resume to pre-pandemic levels after lockdowns? Does pandemic severity … affect the speed of post-lockdown recovery? Using real-time cross-city human mobility data from China and a difference …-in-difference-in-differences framework, we find that mobility in most cities resumed to normal six weeks after reopening. In contrast, the epicenter cities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013238656
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The Effect of Education on Geographic Mobility : Incidence, Timing, and Type of Migration
Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Kïrdar, Murat G.; Torun, Huzeyfe - 2021
We take advantage of a major compulsory school reform in Turkey to provide novel evidence on the causal effect of education on both the incidence and timing of internal migration. In addition, for the first time in literature, we provide causal effects of education on migration by reason for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013251544
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On Human Capital Formation with Exit Options : Comment and New Results
Poutvaara, Panu - 2013
Katz and Rapoport (2005) conclude that with linear production technology and the possibility of unilateral migration, region-specific shocks may increase the average level of education. Previously, Poutvaara (2000) derived a corresponding result with Cobb-Douglas technology and migration which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012754427
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Aggregate-Level Migration Studies as a Tool for Forecasting Future Migration Streams
Schmidt, Christoph M.; Fertig, Michael - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321249