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The role of housing in labor reallocation

Davis, Morris A.; Fisher, Jonas D. M.; Veracierto, Marcelo - 2010

broadly consistent with the city-level evidence on net and gross population flows, employment, wages and residential … employment would be much more volatile than observed. …

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Urbanization in China and how urban housing demand can be met

Gottschalch, Sören - 2013

As it has rightfully been recognized by China's central government, successful urbanization will be decisive for the nation's future development. Key challenges will be to realize urbanization economies, improve production and innovation capabilities, direct urban and suburban growth and improve...

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Remittances and the brain drain revisited: The microdata show that more educated migrants remit more

Bollard, Albert; Morten, Melanie; Rapoport, Hillel - 2009

Two of the most salient trends surrounding the issue of migration and development over the last two decades are the large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit...

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Remittances, migrants' education and immigration policy: Theory and evidence from bilateral data

Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel; Salomone, Sara - 2011

capital with two dimensions of immigration policy: restrictiveness, and selectivity. The model predicts that the relationship … between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The … effect of education is more likely to be positive when the immigration policy is more restrictive and less skill …

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Migrant networks and job search outcomes: Evidence from displaced workers

Colussi, Tommaso - 2013

employment rate raises the re-employment probability within 36 months after job loss by 5.7 percentage points. The paper also …

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Remittances and Inequality: A Dynamic Migration Model

Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel - 2003

We develop a model of the interdependencies between migration, remittances and inequality, and investigate how migration and subsequent remittances affect inter-household inequality in the origin communities. An important feature of our model is that we take into account the impact of migration...

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Network Effects and the Dynamics of Migration and Inequality: Theory and Evidence from Mexico

Mckenzie, David; Rapoport, Hillel - 2004

International migration is costly and initially only the middle class of the wealth distribution may have both the means and incentives to migrate, increasing inequality in the sending community. However, the migration networks formed lower the costs for future migrants, which can in turn lower...

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Do Migrants Facilitate Internationalization? A Review of the Literature

Hatzigeorgiou, Andreas; Lodefalk, Magnus - 2018

How migration relates to internationalization has been a prominent question in international economics for a long time and its relevance for policy has increased with the amplified political focus on migration. But the role of migration for internationalization is not as obvious as the standard...

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Meet the need for inclusive urbanization in China: Migrants' urban housing demand along their socio-economic transition

Gottschalch, Sören - 2015

China's central government has rightfully recognized that successful urbanization will be decisive for the nation's future development. However, most city regions in China are not yet enjoying the net benefits that agglomerations in metropolitan regions can initiate. In this regard, following...

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EU employment dynamics: The pandemic years and beyond

Jestl, Stefan; Stehrer, Robert - 2021

difficulties. This study explores potential future employment dynamics across European industries and employment groups for the …

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