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. There are also important market and regulatory failures that constrain mobility and reduce the net benefits of migration … internalize the social costs of migration in receiving regions; and (5) more flexible private sector driven schemes to regulate … the flow of migrants and minimize irregular migration …
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The paper uses Google mobility data to identify the determinants of social distancing during the 2020 COVID-19 outbreak. The findings for the United States indicate that much of the decrease in mobility is voluntary, driven by the number of COVID-19 cases and proxying for greater awareness of...
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This paper provides the first systematic analysis of migration to, within, and from Libya. The data used in the … analysis are from the Displacement Tracking Matrix data set of the International Organization for Migration. The analysis uses … this unique source of data, combining several techniques to analyze various dimensions of migration in Libya. First, the …
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Armenia, Georgia, the Kyrgyz Republic, and Tajikistan have all experienced substantial out-migration of workers and an …
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they were free to migrate. Given a migration cost in distance, a town nearer to the homelands will receive a larger inflow …, the authors study the effect of migration on urbanization in South Africa. While they find that on average there is no … start off larger do grow endogenously in the wake of a migration shock, while rural areas that start off small do not …
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experienced an increase in labor force participation and attracted more net migration, particularly of unskilled workers …
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Malaysia has been grappling with understanding how many foreign workers reside in the country and thus faces challenges in formulating evidence-based foreign worker policies. This paper uses micro-level remittance transaction data collected from money transfer service providers to estimate the...
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Ecuador became the third largest receiver of the 4.3 million Venezuelans who left their country in the last five years, hosting around 10 percent of them. Little is known about the characteristics of these migrants and their labor market outcomes. This paper fills this gap by analyzing a new...
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government response. Representative information on the migration and host communities is vital for evidence-based policy design …
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As one of the most pivotal ways that labor markets adjust to changing economic conditions, international migration is … international migration trends and household well-being using a combination of administrative records and unique panel survey data …-invariant respondent and location characteristics. The findings show that weak local labor markets drive labor migration from Uzbekistan …
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