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Socio-Economic Segregation in European Capital Cities : Increasing Separation between Poor and Rich

Musterd, Sako - 2016

Socio-economic inequality is on the rise in major European cities as are the worries about that, since this development is seen as threatening social cohesion and stability. Surprisingly, relatively little is known about the spatial dimensions of rising socioeconomic inequality. This paper...

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Motivations for Remittances : Evidence from Moldova

Piracha, Matloob - 2011

This paper explores the factors that account for the receipt of remittances across households in Moldova who have … behaviour in Moldova. Drawing from these estimates, we conclude that altruism and investment (proxied by the level of economic … development at the regional level) are the two main motives behind remittance flows to Moldova …

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Temporary Labour Migration and Welfare at the New European Fringe : A Comparison of Five Eastern European Countries

Danzer, Alexander M. - 2009

This paper investigates patterns and determinants of temporary labour migration in Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova … and Ukraine after EU enlargement in 2004. Migration incidence, destination choices and migration determinants differ …

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The Effect of Labor Migration on the Diffusion of Democracy : Evidence from a Former Soviet Republic

Omar Mahmoud, Toman - 2014

Moldova, we show that the emigration wave that started in the late 1990s strongly affected electoral outcomes and political … preferences in Moldova during the following decade and was eventually instrumental in bringing down the last ruling Communist …

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Occupational Choice of Return Migrants in Moldova

Borodak, Daniela - 2010

in Moldova, we find that those who stayed illegally in the host country tend to go in wage employment on return to the …

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Mismeasured Household Size and its Implications for the Identification of Economies of Scale

Halliday, Timothy - 2008

We consider the possibility that demographic variables are measured with errors which arise because household surveys measure demographic structures at a point-in-time, whereas household composition evolves throughout the survey period. We construct and estimate sharp bounds on household size...

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Reconciling Occupational Mobility in the Current Population Survey

vom Lehn, Christian - 2020

Measuring occupational mobility from the Current Population Survey using recall (retrospective) or linked panel responses (longitudinal) generates substantially different outcomes, both in levels and trends. Using a generalized method of moments technique, we estimate the actual level of...

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Partisanship and Survey Refusal

Borgschulte, Mark; Cho, Heepyung; Lubotsky, Darren - 2022

experiment in Tea Party support using rain on the day of the first Tea Party rally indicates the anti-Census and anti …

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Using the P90/P10 Index to Measure US Inequality Trends with Current Population Survey Data : A View from Inside the Census Bureau Vaults

Burkhauser, Richard V.; Feng, Shuaizhang; Jenkins, … - 2021

The March Current Population Survey (CPS) is the primary data source for estimation of levels and trends in labor earnings and income inequality in the USA. Time-inconsistency problems related to top coding in theses data have led many researchers to use the ratio of the 90th and 10th...

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China's 40 Years Demographic Dividend and Labor Supply : The Quantity Myth

Meng, Xin - 2023

In the past forty years the Chinese economy achieved miracle growth and many attributed a significant part of this to China's favourable labour supply flowing from the "demographic dividend": a larger share of working age population (WAPS). Currently, this dividend is slipping away and many in...

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