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Paving the Way to Development : Costly Migration and Labor Market Integration
Morten, Melanie - 2016
How integrated are labor markets within a country? Labor mobility is key to the integration of local labor markets and therefore to understanding the efficacy of policies to reduce regional inequality. We present a comprehensive framework for understanding migration decisions, focusing on the...
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The Added-Worker Effect : A Reappraisal
Lundberg, Shelly J. - 1981
states of employment, unemployment, and non-participation. The determinants of actual household transitions are then … investigated using continuous employment histories for a sample of low-income families. Simulations using the estimated transition … functions show that increased unemployment among married men has a sizeable short-run effect on both participation and …
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Locate Your Nearest Exit : Mass Layoffs and Local Labor Market Response
Foote, Andrew - 2015
Large shocks to local labor markets can cause long-lasting changes to employment, unemployment and the local labor …
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To Stay or to Migrate? When Becker Meets Harris-Todaro
Liao, Pei-Ju - 2020
Allowing migration activity as an integral part of demographic transition and economic development, we establish a locational quantity-quality trade-off of children and explore its macroeconomic consequences. We construct a dynamic competitive migration equilibrium framework with rural agents...
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Dust Bowl Migrants : Identifying an Archetype
Hornbeck, Richard - 2020
The 1930's American Dust Bowl created archetypal "Dust Bowl migrants," refugees from environmental collapse and economic upheaval. I examine this archetype, comparing migration from more-eroded counties and less-eroded counties to distinguish Dust Bowl migrants from other migrants in this era....
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Migration, Specialization, and Trade : Evidence from Brazil's March to the West
Pellegrina, Heitor S.; Sotelo, Sebastian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
aggregate and regional comparative advantage. We document that farmers emigrating from regions with high employment in an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482637
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Are Migrants More Skilled than Non-Migrants? Repeat, Return and Same-Employer Migrants
Hunt, Jennifer - 2004
I examine the determinants of inter-state migration of adults within western Germany, using the German Socio-Economic Panel from 1984-2000. I highlight the prevalence and distinctive characteristics of migrants who do not change employers. Same-employer migrants represent one fifth of all...
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Measuring Information Frictions in Migration Decisions : A Revealed-Preference Approach
Porcher, Charly; Morales, Eduardo; Fujiwara, Thomas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We investigate the role of information frictions in migration. We develop novel moment inequalities to estimate worker preferences while allowing for unobserved worker-specific information sets, migration costs, and location-specific amenities and prices. Using data on internal migration in...
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Changes in International Immigration and Internal Native Mobility after Covid-19 in the US
Peri, Giovanni; Zaiour, Reem - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
From the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic to late 2021, international immigration flows to the US decreased significantly. We document the timing and the characteristics of these significant changes in flows, their evolution until late 2022 and their geographic and sector distribution. We...
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The Determinants of Declining Internal Migration
Olney, William W.; Thompson, Owen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Internal migration in the United States has declined substantially over the past several decades, which has important implications for individual welfare, macroeconomic adjustments, and other key outcomes. This paper studies the determinants of internal migration and how they have changed over...
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