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Economic influences on child migration decisions: evidence from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh
Edmonds, Eric V.; Salinger, Philip - 2007
examining the correlates of out-migration for children under 15 whose mother's reside in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, India. 1 …
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The returns to English-language skills in India
Azam, Mehtabul; Chin, Aimee; Prakash, Nishith - 2010
India's colonial legacy and linguistic diversity give English an important role in its economy, and this role has …-language skills in India, but the extent of these returns is unknown due to lack of a microdata set containing measures of both … earnings and English ability. In this paper, we use a newly available data set - the India Human Development Survey, 2005 - to …
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Are immigrants more mobile than natives? Evidence from Germany
Schündeln, Matthias - 2007
Low rates of internal migration in many European countries contribute to the persistence of significant regional labor market differences. To further our understanding of the underlying reasons I study internal migration in Germany, using the Mikrozensus, a very large sample of households living...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268515
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The impact of college graduation on geographic mobility: identifying education using multiple components of Vietnam draft risk
Malamud, Ofer; Wozniak, Abigail - 2008
question using a number of methods to analyze both the 1980 Census and longitudinal sources. We conclude that the causal impact …
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The effect of migration on income growth and convergence: meta-analytic evidence
Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2009
We compare a set of econometric studies that measure the effect of net internal migration in neoclassical models of long-run real income convergence and derive 67 comparable effect sizes. The precision-weighted estimate of beta convergence is about 2.7%. An increase in the net migration rate of...
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Dialects, cultural identity, and economic exchange
Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lameli, Alfred; … - 2010
We investigate whether time-persistent cultural borders impede economic exchange across regions of the same country. To measure cultural differences we evaluate, for the first time in economics, linguistic micro-data about phonological and grammatical features of German dialects. These data are...
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The regulation of migration in a transition economy: China's Hukou system
Bao, Shuming; Bodvarsson, Örn B.; Hou, Jack W.; Zhao, … - 2009
). Coincident with the deepening of economic reforms, Hukou has gradually been relaxed since the 1980s, helping to explain an …
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The effects of aging on migration in a transition economy: The case of China
Bodvarsson, Örn B.; Hou, Jack W. - 2010
China has been experiencing two major demographic sea changes since the late 1970s: (i) Internal migration, primarily rural-to-urban, on a scale that dwarfs all other countries at any time in history; and (ii) a shift in its age distribution. The basic question posed in this paper is: How are...
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Southwest as the new internal migration destination in Turkey
Akarca, Ali T.; Tansel, Aysit - 2012
Antalya and Muğla provinces located in southwestern Turkey have emerged as the new magnets for internal migration in the country. Characteristics of immigration from other provinces to these two are described, and analyzed in the context of the gravity model. The factors that affect the...
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The effect of weather-induced internal migration on local labor markets: Evidence from Uganda
Strobl, Eric; Valfort, Marie-Anne - 2012
Relying on census data collected in 2002 and historical weather data for Uganda, we estimate the impact of weather-induced internal migration on the probability for non-migrants living in the destination regions to be employed. Our results reveal a significant negative impact. Consistent with...
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