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Dieses Working Paper beschreibt das Rückwanderungsgeschehen von Arbeitskräften in Deutschland und dessen Bedeutung für die Wanderungsbilanzen von Regionen. Die Auswertungen wurden im Rahmen des gemeinsamen Forschungsvorhabens "Die räumliche Mobilität von Arbeitskräften im Erwerbsverlauf -...
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Die Abwanderung überwiegend junger, gebildeter Menschen aus Ostdeutschland wird häufig als nachteilig für die Entwicklungsfähigkeit und den Aufholprozess der Neuen Länder betrachtet. Das Phänomen der Zuwanderung - und dabei nicht zuletzt der Rückwanderung vormals Abgewanderter - findet in...
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. However, studies that use panel models or IV estimation yield smaller coefficients of net migration while the opposite is the …
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IV estimation methods yield smaller coefficients of net migration in growth regressions, while the opposite holds for …
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We examine environmental factors as potential determinants of international migration. We distinguish between unexpected short-run factors, captured by natural disasters, as well as long-run climate change and climate variability. Building on a simple neo-classical model we use a panel dataset...
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In this paper we seek to deepen understanding of out-migration as a social and economic process and to investigate whether cross-sectional earnings assimilation results suffer from selection bias. To model the process of out-migration we conduct a detailed event history analysis of men and women...
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This paper utilises survey data of return migrants to analyse the determinants of remittances sent while the migrants were abroad. We approach our research question from the perspective of three sending countries in the Maghreb, namely Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia. We investigate the remittance...
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Temporary migration is of growing significance in Europe. Upon migration to a country with higher technological development that typically coincides with positive wage differentials, temporary migrants may upgrade their skills by learning on the job and subsequently import the newly acquired...
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This paper utilises survey data of return migrants to analyse the determinants of remittances sent while the migrants were abroad. We approach our research question from the perspective of three sending countries in the Maghreb, namely Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia. We investigate the remittance...
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We explore the relationship between gambling and other forms of risk-taking behaviour, i.e. exposure to debt and the … Expenditure and Food Surveys (EFS), 2001 to 2007. Gambling and the use of credit are shown to be positively correlated at the … household level. While both the incidence and amount of gambling vary according to household income, the positive association …
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