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Migration magnet : the role of work experience in rural-urban wage differentials in Mexico

Michaelsen, Maren; Haisken-DeNew, John P. - 2011

analyse rural-to-urban migrants' labour market performance. The findings suggest that rural-to-urban migration will continue … ; internal migration ; Mexico … Ergebnisse weisen darauf hin, dass die Land-Stadt-Migration in Zukunft andauern wird und der informelle Sektor in Mexikos Städten …

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In good company : neighborhood quality and female employment

Bechara, Peggy; Eilers, Lea; Paloyo, Alfredo R. - 2015

Using a uniquely assembled panel dataset, we estimate the impact of neighborhood and peer effects on female labor supply. Nonrandom sorting and unobserved heterogeneity at the individual and neighborhood levels make recovering these impact parameters more complicated in the absence of...

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Speaking the same language : the effect of foreign origin teachers on students' language skills

Höckel, Lisa Sofie - 2020

This study investigates whether foreign origin teachers causally affect their students language skills in secondary school. Exploring within-student variation in assignment to teachers, I find that teachers who are immigrants or descendants of immigrants significantly increase the reading...

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Starting off on the right foot : language learning classes and the educational success of immigrant children

Höckel, Lisa Sofie; Schilling, Pia - 2022

This study is the first empirical analysis to identify the causal effect of a separate preparatory language learning class on the academic success of newly immigrated primary school-aged children in comparison to their direct integration into regular classrooms. Employing unique administrative...

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Does the nomination scheme of the city manager matter for urban development policies?

Garmann, Sebastian - 2014

This paper examines the causal effect of a change in the nomination scheme of the city manager from appointment by the local council to election by the citizens on urban development policies. Using the fact that the timing of the reform was as good as random in municipalities of the German state...

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The diffusion of cattle ranching and deforestation : prospects for a hollow frontier in Mexico’s Yucatán

Busch, Christopher B.; Vance, Colin - 2011

This article investigates the behavioral drivers of pasture creation and associated implications for deforestation in a 22,000 km2 agricultural frontier spanning the base of Mexico‘s southern Yucatán. After developing a theoretical model that highlights the role of social networks and...

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Socioeconomic impacts of land restoration in agriculture : a systematic review

Malan, Mandy; Berkhout, Ezra; Duchoslav, Jan; Voors, Maarten - 2022

At the onset of the United Nations’ decade of ecosystem restoration, lessons from well-designed impact evaluations on land restoration programs are crucial for improving policymaking. This study presents findings from a systematic review of research on the socioeconomic impact of such...

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Palm oil and the politics of deforestation in Indonesia

Cisneros Tersitsch, Marco Elías; Kis-Katos, Krisztina; … - 2020

This paper studies the interactions between political and economic incentives to foster forest conversion in Indonesian districts. Using a district-level panel data set from 2001 to 2016, we analyze variation in remotely sensed forest loss and forest fires as well as measures of land use...

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The role of tenure security in farmers' decision-making on investment in improved seeds : insights from mental models

Murken, Lisa; Schindler, Kati; Van den Broek, Karlijn; … - 2024

This paper applies a mental model approach to study the role of tenure security in farmers’ decisionmaking on agricultural investment in Uganda. We investigate the role that both perceived tenure security and formal land rights, measured by the possession of land certificates, play. Our focus...

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Internal migration, regional labour market dynamics and implications for German East-West disparities : results from a panel VAR

Alecke, Björn; Mitze, Timo; Untiedt, Gerhard - 2009

This paper analyses the causal linkages between regional labour market variables and internal migration flows among … of the particular East-West migration since re-unification aiming to shed more light on the East German "empirical puzzle …", characterized by lower migration responses than expected from the regional labour market position relative to the West. We indeed …

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