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This paper aims to provide a frame of mind to understand the link between structural change and regional unemployment, and, based on it, to survey the most recent literature. An overly optimistic view on the ability of the adjustment mechanism to generate convergence in local unemployment rates...
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of new data and the specific nature of economic transition in new member states has brought again this issue to the fore …
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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...
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. 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 …
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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...
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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 …
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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...
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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...
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In this paper, we attempt to understand the determinants of mobility by introducing the concept of local social capital … to multiple equilibria (a world of local social capital and low mobility vs. a world of low social capital and high … propensity to move). It also shows that local social capital is systematically negative for mobility, and can be negative for …
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This paper uses data on very small UK geographies to investigate the effective size of local labor markets. Our approach treats geographic space as continuous, as opposed to a collection of non-overlapping administrative units, thus avoiding problems of mismeasurement of local labor markets...
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