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The cultural diffusion of the fertility transition : evidence from internal migration in 19th century France
Daudin, Guillaume; Franck, Raphaël; Rapoport, Hillel - 2016
France experienced the demographic transition before richer and more educated countries. This paper offers a novel explanation for this puzzle that emphasizes the diffusion of culture and information through internal migration. It tests how migration affected fertility by building a decennial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011454052
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The cultural diffusion of the fertility transition : evidence from internal migration in 19th century France
Daudin, Guillaume; Franck, Raphaël; Rapoport, Hillel - 2016
France experienced the demographic transition before richer and more educated countries. This paper offers a novel explanation for this puzzle that emphasizes the diffusion of culture and information through internal migration. It tests how migration affected fertility by building a decennial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476530
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Weather shocks and migration intentions in Western Africa : insights from a multilevel analysis
Bertoli, Simone; Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel; … - 2020
We use a multilevel approach to characterize the relationship between weather shocks and (internal and international) migration intentions. We combine individual survey data on migration intentions with measures of localized weather shocks for Western African countries over 2008-2016. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012157241
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Regional migration and wage inequality in the West African Economic and Monetary Union
Girsberger, Esther Mirjam; Méango, Romuald; Rapoport, … - 2018
We investigate the impact of regional migration on average wages and on wage inequality in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA). We exploit unique data from a unified labour force household survey which covers natives and migrants in the seven economic capitals of the region. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011959449
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The Cultural Diffusion of the Fertility Transition : Evidence from Internal Migration in 19th Century France
Daudin, Guillaume - 2016
France experienced the demographic transition before richer and more educated countries. This paper offers a novel explanation for this puzzle that emphasizes the diffusion of culture and information through internal migration. It tests how migration affected fertility by building a decennial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012990860
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The Cultural Diffusion of the Fertility Transition : Evidence from Internal Migration in 19th Century France
Daudin, Guillaume - 2016
France experienced the demographic transition before richer and more educated countries. This paper offers a novel explanation for this puzzle that emphasizes the diffusion of culture and information through internal migration. It tests how migration affected fertility by building a decennial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012992443
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Regional Migration and Wage Inequality in the West African Economic and Monetary Union
Girsberger, Esther Mirjam; Meango, Romuald; Rapoport, Hillel - 2022
We investigate the impact of regional migration on average wages and on wage inequality in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA). We exploit unique data from a unified labour force household survey which covers natives and migrants in the seven economic capitals of the region. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014078552
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Remittances and the Brain Drain Revisited: The Microdata Show That More Educated Migrants Remit More
Bollard, Albert; McKenzie, David; Morten, Melanie; … - Department of Economics, Bar Ilan University - 2009
will hamper remittance growth. We revisit the relationship between education and remitting behavior using microdata from … surveys of immigrants in eleven major destination countries. The data show a mixed pattern between education and the … likelihood of remitting, and a strong positive relationship between education and the amount remitted conditional on remitting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008626034
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Remittances and the Brain Drain Revisited: The microdata show that more educated migrants remit more
McKenzie, David Mckenzie; Bollard, Albert; Morten, Melanie - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2009
will hamper remittance growth. We revisit the relationship between education and remitting behavior using microdata from … surveys of immigrants in eleven major destination countries. The data show a mixed pattern between education and the … likelihood of remitting, and a strong positive relationship between education and the amount remitted conditional on remitting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009317978
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Migration and Development Research Is Moving Far beyond Remittances - Working Paper 365
Clemens, Michael; Özden, Çaglar; Rapoport, Hillel - 2014
Research on migration and development has recently changed, in two ways. First, it has grown sharply in volume, emerging as a proper subfield. Second, while it once embraced principally rural-urban migration and international remittances, migration and development research has broadened to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010783609