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Attempts to measure the capitalization of local taxes into property prices, starting with Oates (1969), have suffered from a lack of local public service controls. We revisit this vast literature with a novel dataset of 947 time-varying local characteristic and public service controls for all...
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. However, studies that use panel models or IV estimation yield smaller coefficients of net migration while the opposite is the …Using meta-analytical techniques, we focus on 11 studies that explicitly measure the effect of a net migration variable … migration rate of one percentage point increases on average the GDP per capita growth rate by 0.13 percent, thus suggesting a …
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a gravity analysis, we show that current cross-regional migration is positively affected by historical dialect …
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migration differential between college and high school graduates. IV estimates of graduation's impact on total distance moved …
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IV estimation methods yield smaller coefficients of net migration in growth regressions, while the opposite holds for …We compare a set of econometric studies that measure the effect of net internal migration in neoclassical models of … is about 2.7%. An increase in the net migration rate of a region by one percentage point in increases the per capita …
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a gravity analysis, we show that current cross-regional migration is positively affected by historical dialect …
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between internal migration and regional variation in the generosity of Canada's unemployment insurance system. It has long … regions, it retards the out-migration that is part of the market process, thereby slowing economic development and … the empirical literature that regional variation in the generosity of the insurance system has altered internal migration …
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The impact on internal migration of the recent Customs Union (CU) agreement between Turkey and the European Union (EU … 'wage curve' in the urban sector. The numerical results show that, under both specifications, the CU leads to migration from … respect to the dual economy literature. Both scenarios suggest that internal migration is economically desirable, as it would …
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Like most other developing countries, China experiences huge migration outflows from rural areas. Their most striking … destination areas. In this paper, we show that this temporary feature of migration can be linked to land rights insecurity. As … village land ownership remains collective and as land use rights can be periodically reallocated, individual out-migration can …
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Based on the affirmation that internal migration in Chile has become increasingly less important as an equalizing … mechanism for regional disparities, this paper aims to look at the causes of such immobility. The estimation procedure allows … migration decision (based on observed and unobserved characteristics). This study finds that the productivity differential is …
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