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This report presents a global account of the historical relationship between migration, industrialization and economic … economic growth in areas where migration has led to the emergence of 'capital-rich underdevelopment'. …
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As globalization has led to ever higher levels of labour mobility, so the volume of funds remitted to their families by workers employed in countries far distant from their homes has increased by leaps and bounds. The total volume of such transfers currently amounts to over $100 billion per...
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The document contains a comprehensively revised version of a paper presented to a World Bank Conference on Migrant Remittances: development impact, opportunities for the financial sector and future prospects. The meeting took place in 2003.
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This dissertation is a collection of four research papers written during my doctoral studies at the University of Konstanz between October 2004 and November 2008. These papers are empirical studies dealing with different aspects in the field of university economics. The focus of the first two...
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This work consists of two parts. In the first part I analyze the influence of personal mobility on the citizens' willingness to run for a political office in their municipality and on the resulting local policy outcome. The model portrays heterogeneous policy preferences that are coupled with...
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recently, the estimable Tiebout sorting model literature, has largely ignored both the costs associated with migration …. Each of these omissions could lead to biased estimates of willingness to pay. Building upon dynamic migration models from … the labor literature, I estimate a fully dynamic model of individual migration at the national level. By employing a two …
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graduates face different costs of migration, this would be reflected in different degrees of Roy-sorting-induced bias in their …
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ample evidence for this hypothesis and contributes to the received literature in economic migration research for the case of … observable migration flows to Germany and a set of forecasts for future migration to be expected from the Central and Eastern …
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workers' migration patterns. I develop a model of local labor markets that describes how tariff changes across industries … Brazil's 1987-1995 trade liberalization affected wages and interstate migration within the country. I find that wages fell … in migration patterns. These results demonstrate the empirical value of the theoretical framework and represent the first …
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Der Anstieg der Energiepreise kann zu einer länger anhaltenden Verteuerung von Gütertransporten führen. Welche Auswirkungen haben steigende Transportkosten auf die Entwicklung von Städtesystemen?Ein solcher Transportkostenanstieg hat in der Russischen Föderation nach der...
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