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The Employment and Earnings of Migrants inGreat Britain
Andrews, Martyn; Clark, Ken; Whittaker, William - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
examine the labour market returns to inter-regional migration inGreat Britain... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861658
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Location-Specific Human Capital, Location Choiceand Amenity Demand
Krupka, Douglas J. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
The role of amenities in the flow of migrants has been debated for some years. This paperadvances an original model of amenities that work through household production instead ofdirectly through the utility function. Area characteristics (amenities) affect householdproduction, causing certain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862314
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Local Labor Markets and the Persistence of Population Shocks
Braun, Sebastian - 2017
This paper studies the persistence of a large, unexpected, and regionally very unevenly distributed population shock, the inflow of eight million ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe to West Germany after World War II. Using detailed census data from 1939 to 1970, we show that the shock had a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012945234
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Migrant Networks, Migrant Selection,and High School Graduation in Mexico
Miranda, Alfonso - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper examines whether family and community migration experience affect theprobability of high school graduation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861188
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Wages, Rents and Heterogeneous Moving Costs
Krupka, Douglas J.; Donaldson, Kwame - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
The model of compensating differentials in regional labor markets was developed by Roback(1982). The model interprets regional differences in constant quality wages and rents ascompensating firms and residents for inter-regional differences in amenities. The modelassumes that the costs of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861156
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Differences in Quality of Life Estimates Using Rents and Home Values
Winters, John V. - 2012
Quality of life differences across areas can be measured by differences in “real wages”, where real wages are computed as nominal wages adjusted for the cost of living. Computing cost of living differences involves several important issues, including how housing prices should be measured....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013103501
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Inefficient Equilibrium Unemployment in a Duocentric Economy with Matching Frictions
Lehmann, Etienne - 2013
This article examines unemployment disparities and efficiency in a densely populated economy with two job centers and workers distributed between them. We introduce commuting costs and search-matching frictions to deal with the spatial mismatch between workers and firms. In equilibrium, there...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071292
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Regional Equilibrium Unemployment Theory at the Age of the Internet
Lutgen, Vanessa - 2013
This paper studies equilibrium unemployment in a two-region economy where homogeneous workers and jobs are free to move and the housing market clears. Because of the Internet, searching for a job in another region without first migrating there is nowadays much simpler than in the past....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013072171
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Some Evidence on the Nature of Urbanization Economies
Krupka, Douglas J. - 2015
Urbanization economies - the effects on productivity and utility created endogenously by larger cities - are a fundamental component of both the economic geography of modern societies and the perpetuation of innovation and economic growth at a national level. Cities account for vast majorities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039222
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Modelling the Effects of Immigration on Regional Economic Performance and the Wage Distribution : A Cge Analysis of Three EU Regions
Pouliakas, Konstantinos - 2009
small remote EU regions located within Scotland, Greece and Latvia. Two migration scenarios are assessed. In the first …. They also suggest that remote regions are highly vulnerable to the out-migration of skilled workers ('brain-drain') while … the in-migration of unskilled workers leads to widening wage inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153012