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Les auteurs contribuent par leur analyse a degager les determinants de la migration interregionale de la main d'oeuvre, migration qui constitue un objet d'analyse essentiel pour l'amenagement du territoire. Dans le contexte tunisien, les auteurs testent la relation postulee entre d'une part, les...
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Many countries consider the residential concentration among immigrants a problem. This paper studies the factors influencing individual location decisions and evaluates a Swedish attempt to change the residential distribution of refugee immigrants in the late 1980's. Despite common perceptions,...
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After a brief overview of the types of evidence on the role of distance in affecting migration, the paper critically examines a number of hypotheses as to why distance might deter migration, then draws out some implications for the emergence and persistence of geographic poverty traps.
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Many countries consider the residential concentration among immigrants a problem. This paper studies the factors influencing individual location decisions and evaluates a Swedish attempt to change the residential distribution of refugee immigrants in the late 1980's. Despite common perceptions,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005479127
Migration among Spanish regions has fallen significatly since the 1970s, in spite of large and widening regional unemployment rate differentials. In this paper I argue that this evolution is the result of : a large increase in the national unemployment rate; the reduction in regional dispersion...
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Cette etude analyse le lien entre la disparite regionale du chomage et la politique migratoire suisse a l'aide de la courbe de Beveridge (ou U-V). Cette derniere a ete largement utilisee par d'autres auteurs pour etudier l'effet du chomage de longue duree et les mismatchs notamment. Notre...
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The rapid pace of urbanization in developing countries, and especially the growth of very large cities, is a source of considerable concern for policy makers and is increasingly becoming a topic for economic analysis. Most studies of migration are concerned with rural-urban flows. However, in...
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New economic geography models predict migration flows from peripheral regions toward central ones. Agglomeration occurs in these models because firms, which tend to locate in large demand regions, and workers, who look for high real wages, are driven by the same force defined by the market...
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This paper compares the evolution of regional disparities in per capita incomes in Canade and the 12 American states along Canada's southern border. The phenomenon of capital accumulation as described by the neoclassical growth model can explain much of the observe decline in regional dispersion...
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This paper studies rural-urban migration by married males in Bangladesh as a two-outcome process consisting of individual moves and family moves. The family/individual distinction is relevant to issues of rural development, urban planning, and old-age dependency since family migration involves...
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