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Mismeasured household size and its implications for the identification of economies of scale

Halliday, Timothy J. - 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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Land rights insecurity and temporary migration in rural China

de la Rupelle, Maëlys; Quheng, Deng; Shi, Li; … - 2009

Like most other developing countries, China experiences huge migration outflows from rural areas. Their most striking characteristic is a high geographical and temporal mobility. Rural migrants keep going back and forth between origin villages and destination areas. In this paper, we show that...

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Migration, Migrants and Policy in the United Kingdom

Hatton, Timothy J.; Wheatley Price, Stephen - 1999

immigration; and the links between immigration policy and race relations. This is followed by an examination of the education and … econometric research on wage and employment differentials are presented and interpreted in the wider context. Finally, the …

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Migration in Spain: Historical Background and Current Trends

Bover, Olympia; Velilla, Pilar - 1999

1950-1973 periods are considered. Foreign immigration is also discussed. Special attention is devoted to internal migration … the expansion of the welfare state, the traditionally poor and high unemployment regions have become net immigration … increased employment opportunities in the services sector that has prompted moves (mainly within regions), mostly of skilled …

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Aliyah to Israel: Immigration under Conditions of Adversity

Neuman, Shoshana - 1999

? (ii) What are the effects of immigration on employment opportunities and are they paying their way in the welfare state …A snapshot at figures of immigration (Aliyah) to the Land of Israel (Palestine) and to the State of Israel reveals the … following: between 1882-1947, in successive waves of immigration, some 543,000 Jews immigrated to Palestine, joining the 24 …

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Irish Migration: Characteristics, Causes and Consequences

Barrett, Alan - 1999

The purpose of this paper is to review what has been learnt about Irish migration from the work of social scientists, largely economists. For most of its modern history, Ireland has experienced large net outflows. I discuss how the outflow was made up of lower skilled people up until the 1980s...

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Why Do People Still Live in East Germany?

Hunt, Jennifer - 2000

In 1997 GDP per capita in East Germany was 57% of that of West Germany, wage rates were 75% of western levels, and the unemployment rate was at least double the western rate of 7.8%. One would expect that if capital flows and trade in goods failed to bring convergence, labor flows would respond,...

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Testing for the Option Value of Migration

Locher, Lilo - 2001

Germans in the CIS to find empirical support for it. Since July 1990, ethnic German immigration from Eastern Europe and the …

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Migration, Sozialstaat und Zuwanderungspolitik

Bauer, Thomas K. - 2002

Im Rahmen dieses Beitrags wird die Frage analysiert, ob ein großzügig ausgestalteter Sozialstaat zusätzliche Wanderungsanreize generieren kann, die eine nennenswerte Zuwanderung in das Sozialversicherungssystem zur Folge hat. Darüber hinaus werden verschiedene Politikoptionen zur...

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Informational Cascades and Decision to Migrate

Epstein, Gil S. - 2002

We introduce the idea that informational cascades can explain the observed regularity that emigrants from the same locations also tend to choose the same foreign locations. Thus informational cascades generate herd behavior. Herd behavior is compared with the network externalities explanation of...

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