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This paper uses state-level data on migration flows between Mexico and the U.S. from 1999 to 2011 to investigate the … migration response to climate shocks and the mitigating impact of an agricultural cash-transfer program (PROCAMPO) and a … disaster fund (Fonden). While lower than average precipitations increase undocumented migration, especially from the most …
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migration of workers. For nearly all of the world's countries, our micro-founded model jointly endogenizes the effects of …. Climate change intensifies poverty and income inequality creating favorable conditions for urbanization and migration from low … ages) over the course of the 21st century. However, under current migration laws and policies, forcibly displaced people …
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Using a synthetic control estimation strategy we examine the economic impact of a large inflow of people from Puerto Rico into Orlando in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, which devastated Puerto Rico in September 2017. We find that aggregate employment in Orlando increased as a result of the...
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This paper updates and extends the Docquier-Marfouk data set on international migration byeducational attainment. We …
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This paper examines whether family and community migration experience affect theprobability of high school graduation …
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Recent surveys of the literature on climate change and migration emphasize the important diversity of outcomes and …
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This paper studies the migration response of the youth from new EU member states to disparate conditions in an enlarged … duration. We find that migration intentions are high among those not married and among males with children, but both categories … are also overrepresented among people with only temporary as opposed to long-term or permanent migration plans. Whereas …
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This paper uses the French and the UK Labour Force Surveys and the German Microcensus to estimate the effects of different components of the labour force on innovation at the sectoral level between 1994 and 2005. The authors focus, in particular, on the contribution of migrant workers. We adopt...
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In this paper, we argue that the size and the composition of the female migrant population in a given area can affect the marital stability of natives. We take Italy as a case-study and we offer discrete-time event history models predicting marital disruption on data from the nationally –...
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. Nonetheless, while BD has been studied extensively, AD drain has not. I examine migration's impact on ability (a), education (h …), which combines PS and VS (e.g., Canada, 2015+). I find that i) Migration reduces (raises) source country residents …
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