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Rural-urban migration at high urbanization levels

Busso, Matias; Chauvin, Juan Pablo; Herrera L., Nicolás - 2020

This study assesses the empirical relevance of the Harris-Todaro model at high levels of urbanization a feature that characterizes an increasing number of developing countries, which were largely rural when the model was created 50 years ago. Using data from Brazil, the paper compares observed...

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Urban public works in spatial equilibrium : experimental evidence from Ethiopia

Franklin, Simon; Imbertand, Clément; Abebe, Girum; … - 2023

This paper evaluates a large urban public works program randomly rolled out across neighborhoods of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. We find that the program increased public employment and reduced private labor supply among beneficiaries and improved local amenities in treated locations. We then combine...

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Matching frictions and distorted beliefs : evidence from a job fair experiment

Abebe, Girum; Caria, Stefano A.; Fafchamps, Marcel; … - 2023

We evaluate the impacts of a randomized job-fair intervention in which jobseekers and employers can meet at low cost. The intervention generates few hires, but it lowers participants' expectations and causes both firms and workers to invest more in search as predicted by a theoretical model;...

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Long-term effects of weather-induced migration on urban labor and housing markets

Busso, Matias; Chauvin, Juan Pablo - 2023

This paper explores the effects of weather-induced rural-urban migration on urban labor and housing markets in Brazil … that larger migration shocks led to an increase in employment growth and a reduction in wage growth of 4 and 5 percent …, respectively. The increased migration flows also affected the housing market in destination cities. On average, it led to 1 percent …

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Human behavior and new mobility trends in the United States, Europe, and China

Cohen, Kathleen - 2019

New mobility trends such as shared mobility, autonomous vehicles, and mobility as a service are poised to disrupt the way the world moves. Since transport behavior is rooted in human behavior, how these trends are adopted will be influenced by behavioral preferences as well as cultural trends....

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Unequal transition : the widening wealth gap amidst China's rapid growth

Jiang, Yangtian; Zheng, Yu; Zhu, Lijun - 2023

We propose a quantitative theory of wealth creation and distribution during China's transitional growth from the early 1990s, when barriers to setting up private businesses, trading housing, and migrating from rural to urban areas are struck down. In response to the changing economic...

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The linear algebra of economic geography models

Kleinman, Benny; Liu, Ernest; Redding, Stephen - 2023

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Migrant networks and job search outcomes : evidence from displaced workers

Colussi, Tommaso - 2013 - First draft: December 2011, This version: June 2013

This paper investigates how the job search outcomes of displaced migrants are affected by the labor market outcomes of past co-workers of the same nationality. For this exercise I use matched employer-employee micro data on the universe of private-sector employees in Italy between 1975 and 2001....

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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 …

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Migration from Africa, the Middle East and European neighbouring countries to the EU : an augmented gravity modelling approach

Mara, Isilda; Landesmann, Michael - 2021

The South-North migration corridor, i.e. migration flows to the EU from Africa, the Middle East and EU neighbouring … countries in the East, have overtaken the East-West migration corridor, i.e. migration flows from Central and East European … countries to the EU15 and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA). This is likely to dominate migration flows into the EU …

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