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This chapter connects population aging with international migration. After documenting the trends for both, we review … the supply-push and demand-pull determinants of migration, focusing particularly on the role of age and aging. We … subsequently discuss the literature concerning the implications of migration in the context of aging for labor markets, health and …
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emigrants. Individuals self-select into migration and locations based on education. Migration to urban centres increases with … explain the complex migration pattern observed. Large income gains from migration are partially offset by direct and indirect … migration costs, as well as by higher investment in education (for rural migrants). Migration prospects to urban centres drive …
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Internal migration can substantially improve labor market efficiency. Consequently, policy is often targeted towards … reducing the barriers workers face in moving to new labor markets. In this paper we explicitly model internal migration as the … for the pattern of internal migration that results. Unlike standard search models, we assume that job seekers do not know …
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the variance of international and internal migration over time for identifying potential displacement effects. The main …
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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 migration. We find that while education substantially increases the … incidence of migration among men, there is no evidence of an effect among women. Women, however, become more likely to migrate …
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neighbouring countries. We estimate migration intentions of Mozambicans before and after the attacks, controlling for the … characteristics of households and previous migration behaviour. Using a placebo period, we show that other things equal, the migration … intention of household heads decreases from 37% to 33%. The sensitivity of migration intentions to violence is larger for …
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International migration is a selective process that induces ambiguous effects on human capital and economic development … and human capital accumulation in a multi-country context. We then embed this migration-education nexus into a development … accounting framework to quantify the effects of migration on development and inequality. We find that selective emigration …
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This paper examines the impact of the 2016 UK referendum and expecting Brexit on migration flows and net migration in … the UK. We employ a Difference-in-Differences strategy and compare EU migration to non-EU migration before and immediately …) migration inflows from the EU declined, (ii) emigration of EU migrants increased and (iii) net migration flows from EU countries …
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migration of workers. For nearly all of the world's countries, our micro-founded model jointly endogenizes the effects of …. Climate change intensifies poverty and income inequality creating favorable conditions for urbanization and migration from low … ages) over the course of the 21st century. However, under current migration laws and policies, forcibly displaced people …
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We analyze the effects of the increase in China's import competition on Mexican domestic and international migration …
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