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Russian Cities in Transition : The Impact of Market Forces in the 1990s
Stuart, Robert C.; Gang, Ira N. - 2004
examine net migration rates for a sample of 171 medium and large cities for the period 1960 through 2002. We conclude that … while the declining net migration rate was reversed during the first half of the 1990s, restrictions continued to matter … during the early years of transition in the sense that net migration rates were lower in the restricted than in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261899
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Where Immigrants Settle in the United States
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2004
This paper is concerned with the location of immigrants in the United States, as reported in the 1990 Census. Where they settle has implications for the economic, social and political impact of immigrants. Immigrants are highly geographically concentrated. Compared to the native born they are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261987
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On the dynamics of interstate migration: migration costs and self-selection
Bayer, Christian; Juessen, Falko - 2008
This paper develops a tractable dynamic microeconomic model of migration decisions that is aggregated to describe the … behavior of interregional migration. Our structural approach allows us to deal with dynamic self-selection problems that arise … from the endogeneity of location choice and the persistency of migration incentives. Keeping track of the distribution of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268543
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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
selection into college might also drive the relationship between college education and geographic mobility. We explore this … migration differential between college and high school graduates. IV estimates of graduation's impact on total distance moved …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268724
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Differences in employment outcomes for college town stayers and leavers
Winters, John V. - 2012
recent graduates in the area after they finish their education. This paper classifies 41 U.S. metropolitan areas as college …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287699
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Demography, capital flows and unemployment
Marchiori, Luca; Pierrard, Olivier; Sneessens, Henri R. - 2011
This paper contributes to the already vast literature on demography-induced international capital flows by examining the role of labor market imperfections and institutions. We setup a two-country overlapping generations model with search unemployment, which we calibrate on EU15 and US data....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282316
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Where Immigrants Settle in the United States
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
This paper is concerned with the location of immigrants in the United States, as reported in the 1990 Census. Where they settle has implications for the economic, social and political impact of immigrants. Immigrants are highly geographically concentrated. Compared to the native born they are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703137
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On amenities, natural advantage and agglomeration
Krupka, Douglas J. - 2008
production, or urbanization economies in consumption. On their own, none of these urban scale effects generate the observed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268665
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Sin city?
Gautier, Pieter A.; Svarer, Michael; Teulings, Coen N. - 2007
Is moving to the countryside a credible commitment device for couples? We investigate whether lowering the arrival rate of potential alternative partners by moving to a less populated area lowers the dissolution risk for a sample of Danish couples. We find that of the couples who married in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268301
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Location-specific human capital, location choice and amenity demand
Krupka, Douglas J. - 2007
more than others. This specificity - along with a period of exogenous location (before migration can be carried out …) - increases the opportunity costs of moving, diminishes migration flows between dissimilar locations and increases valuation of … NLSY79 data show that childhood investments affect migration flows in the way proposed by the model. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274530