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Migration, Education and Work Opportunities

Girsberger, Esther Mirjam - 2017

I study individual location, education and work decisions in a dynamic life-cycle model in a developing country. I estimate the model exploiting panel data on migrants and stayers in Burkina Faso, and cross-sectional data on permanent emigrants. Individuals self-select into migration and...

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European Labour Mobility : Challenges and Potentials

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2004

European Union economies are pressed by (i) a demographic change that induces population ageing and a decline of the workforce, and (ii) a split labour market that is characterized by high levels of unemployment for low-skilled people and a simultaneous shortage of skilled workers. This lack of...

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Migration, Innovation, and Growth: An African Story?

Mbaye, Linguère Mously; Tani, Massimiliano - 2019

This chapter brings new evidence on the relationship between short-term labour mobility, as proxied by tourism flows, and innovation in Africa. Using data from 34 African countries over the period 2011-2016 sourced from the World Bankâ€™s Enterprise Survey, we find that shortâ€“term...

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European Labour Mobility: Challenges and Potentials

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

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A Simple Theory of Industry Location and Residence Choice

Borck, Rainald; Pflüger, Michael; Wrede, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper provides a simple theory of geographical mobility which simultaneously explains people’s choice of residences in space and the location of industry. Residences are chosen on the basis of the utility which mobile households obtain across locations. The spatial pattern of industry is...

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Economic influences on child migration decisions: evidence from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh

Edmonds, Eric V.; Salinger, Philip - 2007

Why do young children migrate without a parent? We consider the economic components of the answer to this question by examining the correlates of out-migration for children under 15 whose mother's reside in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, India. 1 million children appear to have migrated away from home...

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Wage growth through job hopping in China

Ariga, Kenn; Ohtake, Fumio; Sasaki, Masaru; Wu, Zheren - 2012

indicates that the migrants are positively selected. (3) Job and location mobilities are highly dependent upon family back …

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The Influence of Others on Migration Plans

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2004

?other people?, such as family and friends, are migrants, former migrants, or potential migrants themselves. We examine the …

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Village economies and the structure of extended family networks

Angelucci, Manuela; De Giorgi, Giacomo; Rangel, Marcos A.; … - 2009

This paper documents how the structure of extended family networks in rural Mexico relates to the poverty and … inequality of the village of residence. Using the Hispanic naming convention, we construct within-village extended family … networks in 504 poor rural villages. Family networks are larger (both in the number of members and as a share of the village …

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Immigrant self-employment: does intermarriage matter?

Georgarakos, Dimitris; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2009

This paper investigates the effect of a native spouse on the transitions into and out of entrepreneurship of male immigrants in the U.S. We find that those married to a native are less likely to start up a business compared to those married to an immigrant. This finding is robust when the...

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