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Migration and climate change in rural Africa
Cattaneo, Cristina; Massetti, Emanuele - 2015
We analyse whether migration is an adaptation that households employ to cope with climate in Ghana and Nigeria. If migration is part of the present adaptation portfolio of households in developing countries, it is reasonable to expect that it will also be an adaptation to future climate change....
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Local education spending and migration : evidence from a large redistribution program
Chauvin, Juan Pablo - 2024
This paper studies the effects of changes in local public education budgets on individual schooling attainment and … redistributed public education finance across Brazilian municipalities in the late 1990s, as a source of exogenous variation. Using … a cohort-exposure design, I find that, at the individual level, doubling the program-related public education budget led …
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Emigration and wages : the EU enlargement experiment
Elsner, Benjamin - 2011
find no effect on the wage distribution between workers of different education levels. -- Emigration ; EU Enlargement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009376066
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Adapting to climate change : long-term effects of drought on local labor markets
Bastos, Paulo; Busso, Matias; Miller, Sebastián - 2013
We examine the long-term impacts of drought on local labor markets in Brazil. Us- ing rainfall data going back over a century, we build contemporaneous and historical drought indices for more than 3,000 local areas, and examine them in conjunction with five waves of population census data...
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Managing migration through quotas : an option-theory perspective
Moretto, Michele; Vergalli, Sergio - 2008
Recent European Legislation on immigration has revealed a particular paradox on migration policies. On the one hand, the trend of recent legislation points to the increasing closure of frontiers (OECD 1999, 2001,2004), also by using immigration quotas. On the other hand, there is an increase of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008772378
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Attitudes towards migrants during crisis times
Rodríguez Chatruc, Marisol; Rozo, Sandra V. - 2021
How are natives attitudes towards migrants shaped by economic crises? Natives could show more compassion towards migrants as everyone faces a common threat. Alternatively, natives prejudice could rise as competition for scarce economic opportunities increases. We conduct an online survey to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012586403
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Of cities and slums
Ferreira, Pedro Cavalcanti; Monge-Naranjo, Alexander; … - 2016
development. Based on salient micro and macro evidence of Brazilian labor, housing and education markets, we construct a simple …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011585843
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The role of landscape amenities in regional development : a survey of migration, regional economic and hedonic pricing studies
Waltert, Fabian; Schläpfer, Felix - 2007
Quality of life factors continue to gain importance in residential location decisions as well as location decisions of firms. One such factor is an attractive local landscape. The aim of this paper is to provide a survey of the empirical literature on the role of landscape amenities in local...
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Internal migration across Italian regions : macroeconomic determinants and accommodating potential for a dualistic economy
Piras, Romano - 2010
We provide econometric evidence that relative per capita GDP and relative unemployment rates are the main determinants of migration flows across Italian regions from 1970 to 2002. The empirical analysis is based on an accurate study of the dynamic properties of the series. In fact, we deal with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008737154
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Climate change and migration : a CGE analysis for two large urban regions of Latin America
Chisari, Omar O.; Miller, Sebastián - 2016
Migration is one of the strategies used by populations to adapt to natural shocks and also to respond to economic policies. Climate change will probably have an impact on the productivity of factors and on the health of the population of the Latin America and Caribbean region, triggering...
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