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Remittances and Informal Work
Ivlevs, Artjoms - 2016
This paper studies the effects of remittances on informal employment in the migrants' countries of origin, looking both … transition economies in 2009, I find that receiving remittances increases the likelihood of working informally. At the regional … level, high prevalence of remittances is associated with a higher likelihood of informal work among non-migrant households …
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Split decisions: Family finance when a policy discontinuity allocates overseas work
Clemens, Michael A.; Tiongson, Erwin R. - 2012
entrepreneurship. Remittances appear to overwhelm household splitting as a causal mechanism. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291333
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Split Decisions: Family Finance when a Policy Discontinuity Allocates Overseas Work
Clemens, Michael A.; Tiongson, Erwin R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
entrepreneurship. Remittances appear to overwhelm household splitting as a causal mechanism. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011105625
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New Evidence on Mobility and Wages of the Young and the Old
Hansen, Jörgen; Lkhagvasuren, Damba - 2015
We present new evidence on the wage and mobility of young and old workers, which is difficult to explain using standard human capital theory. Instead, we propose a simple dynamic extension of the Roy model, where worker migration and wages are jointly determined at the individual level....
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The Deterrent Effect of Voting Against Minarets: Identity Utility and Foreigners' Location Choice
Slotwinski, Michaela; Stutzer, Alois - 2015
This paper uses the vote on the Swiss minaret initiative as a natural experiment to identify the causal effect of negative attitudes towards immigrants on foreigners' location choices and thus indirectly on their utility. Based on a regression discontinuity design with unknown discontinuity...
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Do Earnings by College Major Affect Graduate Migration?
Winters, John V. - 2015
College graduates are considerably more mobile than non-graduates, and previous literature suggests that the difference is at least partially attributable to college graduates being more responsive to employment opportunities in other areas. However, there exist considerable differences in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401775
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Does Higher Education Enhance Migration?
Haapanen, Mika; Böckerman, Petri - 2013
This paper examines the causal impact of education on within-country migration. A major higher education reform took place in Finland in the 1990s. It gradually transformed former vocational colleges into polytechnics and expanded higher education to all regions. The reform created exogenous...
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What Drives the Urban Wage Premium? Evidence along the Wage Distribution
Matano, Alessia; Naticchioni, Paolo - 2013
This paper aims at disentangling the role played by different explanations on the urban wage premium along the wage distribution. We analyze the wage dynamics of migrants from lower to higher density areas in Italy, using quantile regressions and individual data. The results show that unskilled...
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Regional Equilibrium Unemployment Theory at the Age of the Internet
Lutgen, Vanessa; Van der Linden, Bruno - 2013
This paper studies equilibrium unemployment in a two-region economy where homogeneous workers and jobs are free to move and the housing market clears. Because of the Internet, searching for a job in another region without first migrating there is nowadays much simpler than in the past....
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'Can't Get Enough': Prejudice, Contact Jobs and the Racial Wage Gap in the US
Laouénan, Morgane - 2014
The wage gap between African-Americans and white Americans is substantial in the US and has slightly narrowed over the past 30 years. Today, blacks have almost achieved the same educational level as whites. There is reason to believe that discrimination driven by prejudice plays a part in...
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