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Dual Circulation and Population Mobility during the Pandemic in China
Lee, Wang-Sheng; Tran, Trang My; Yu, Lamont Bo - 2022
Chinese population during the Covid-19 pandemic. The travel and tourism industry is a key driver of China's domestic economy … results show that except for some periods of intense mobility restrictions, relative to travel patterns in 2019, mobility in … fact increased in China from mid-2020 onwards. This increase in domestic air travel is likely due to a combination of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351808
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Brain Drain and LDCs? Growth: Winners and Losers
Beine, Michel; Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel - 2003
We present an empirical evaluation of the growth effects of the brain drain for the source countries of migrants. Using recent US data on migration rates by education levels (Carrington and Detragiache, 1998), we find empirical support for the ?beneficial brain drain hypothesis? in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261555
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Jewish Occupational Selection : Education, Restrictions, or Minorities?
Botticini, Maristella; Eckstein, Zvi - 2004
This paper documents the major features of Jewish economic history in the first millennium to explain the distinctive occupational selection of the Jewish people into urban, skilled occupations. We show that many Jews entered urban occupations in the eighth-ninth centuries in the Muslim Empire...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261974
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The Influence of Others on Migration Plans
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2004
The willingness to migrate and locational choice may be influenced by others? choices or plans, particularly if the ?other people?, such as family and friends, are migrants, former migrants, or potential migrants themselves. We examine the roles ?other people? play in influencing an individual?s...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261996
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From Farmers to Merchants: A Human Capital Interpretation of Jewish Economic History
Botticini, Maristella; Eckstein, Zvi - 2003
Since the Middle Ages the Jews have been engaged primarily in urban, skilled occupations, such as crafts, trade, finance, and medicine. This distinctive occupational selection occurred between the seventh and the ninth centuries in the Muslim Empire and then it spread to other locations. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262232
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Aggregate-Level Migration Studies as a Tool for Forecasting Future Migration Streams
Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2000
Assessing the migration potential and predicting future migration streams are among the most relevant, yet least well understood topics of migration research. The usual approach taken to address aggregate-level prediction problems is to fit ad hoc specifications to historical data, and to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262391
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On human capital formation with exit options: comment and new results
Poutvaara, Panu - 2005
Katz and Rapoport (2005) conclude that with linear production technology and the possibility of unilateral migration, region-specific shocks may increase the average level of education. Previously, Poutvaara (2000) derived a corresponding result with Cobb-Douglas technology and migration which...
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Local social capital and geographical mobility: a theory
David, Quentin; Janiak, Alexandre; Wasmer, Etienne - 2008
In this paper, we attempt to understand the determinants of mobility by introducing the concept of local social capital … to multiple equilibria (a world of local social capital and low mobility vs. a world of low social capital and high … propensity to move). It also shows that local social capital is systematically negative for mobility, and can be negative for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268578
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The "Out of Africa" hypothesis, human genetic diversity, and comparative economic development
Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2012
This research argues that deep-rooted factors, determined tens of thousands of years ago, had a significant effect on the course of economic development from the dawn of human civilization to the contemporary era. It advances and empirically establishes the hypothesis that in the course of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291046
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Earnings Mobility in Argentina, Mexico, and Venezuela:Testing the Divergence of Earnings and theSymmetry of Mobility Hypotheses
Fields, Gary S.; Duval-Hernandez, Robert; Freije, Samuel; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper examines changes in individual earnings during positive and negative growthperiods in three Latin American economies: Argentina, Mexico, and Venezuela. We askwhether those individuals who start in the best economic position are those who experiencethe largest earnings gains or the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861360