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Understanding the Long-Run Decline in Interstate Migration
Kaplan, Greg; Schulhofer-Wohl, Sam - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
We analyze the secular decline in interstate migration in the United States between 1991 and 2011. Gross flows of …. We argue that the fall in migration is due to a decline in the geographic specicity of returns to occupations, together … on rates of repeat migration. Other explanations, including compositional changes, regional changes, and the rise in real …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821924
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Isolated Capital Cities, Accountability and Corruption: Evidence from US States
Campante, Filipe R.; Do, Quoc-Anh - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We show that isolated capital cities are robustly associated with greater levels of corruption across US states, in line with the view that this isolation reduces accountability, and in contrast with the alternative hypothesis that it might forestall political capture. We then provide direct...
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Is India's Manufacturing Sector Moving Away From Cities?
Ghani, Ejaz; Goswami, Arti Grover; Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
This paper investigates the urbanization of the Indian manufacturing sector by combining enterprise data from formal and informal sectors. We find that plants in the formal sector are moving away from urban and into rural locations, while the informal sector is moving from rural to urban...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011227923
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The Slow Decline of East Germany
Uhlig, Harald - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
Barro (1991), except that migration out of East Germany has not slowed down. I document that in particular the 18-29 year … unemployment and increasing reliance on social security persist across wide regions of East Germany together with these migration …) by allowing for migration and network externalities. In that theory, two equilibria can result: one with a high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005089073
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Urban Population and Amenities
Albouy, David; Stuart, Bryan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We use a neoclassical general-equilibrium model to explain cross-metro variation in population density based on three broad amenity types: quality of life, productivity in tradables, and productivity in non-tradables. Analytically, we demonstrate the dependence of quantities on amenities through...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744566
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Immigration and the Economy of Cities and Regions
Lewis, Ethan G.; Peri, Giovanni - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
In this chapter we analyze immigration and its effect on urban and regional economies focusing on productivity and labor markets. While immigration policies are typically national, the effects of international migrants are often more easily identified on local economies. The reason is that their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951263
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The Geography of Development: Evaluating Migration Restrictions and Coastal Flooding
Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban; Desmet, Klaus; Nagy, Dávid … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
different levels of migration frictions. We bring the model to the data for the whole world economy at a 1°×1° geographic … resolution. We then use the model to quantify the gains from relaxing migration restrictions as well as to describe the evolution … of the distribution of economic activity in the different migration scenarios. Our results indicate that fully …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252659
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Immigrants Equilibrate Local Labor Markets: Evidence from the Great Recession
Cadena, Brian C.; Kovak, Brian K. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This paper demonstrates that low-skilled Mexican-born immigrants' location choices in the U.S. respond strongly to changes in local labor demand, and that this geographic elasticity helps equalize spatial differences in labor market outcomes for low-skilled native workers, who are much less...
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Immigrants' Complementarities and Native Wages: Evidence from California
Peri, Giovanni - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
responses of natives we use a novel instrumental variable strategy. Our estimates use migration by skill group to other U ….S. states as instrument for migration to California. Migratory flows to other states, in fact, share the same "push" factors as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005830621
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Rethinking the Area Approach: Immigrants and the Labor Market in California, 1960-2005.
Peri, Giovanni - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
I show that a CES production-function-based approach with skill differentiation and integrated national labor markets has predictions for the employment effect of immigrants at the local level. The model predicts that if I look at the employment (rather than wage) response by skill to...
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