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Education, Mobility and the College Wage Premium

Lkhagvasuren, Damba - Department of Economics, Concordia University - 2006

Motivated by large educational differences in geographic mobility, this paper considers a simple dynamic extension of Roy's (1951) model and analyzes it using new evidence on net versus excess mobility and the individual-level relationship between mobility and wages. According to the model, the...

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Occupation Choice, Information, and Migration

White, Nancy E.; Wolaver, Amy M. - In: The Review of Regional Studies 33 (2003) 2, pp. 142-63

formalize the occupation choice decision. As individuals gain information on their own productivity, they may change occupations … and locations. Occupation choice is introduced as an endogenous determinant of migration in recursive bivariate probit … models for individuals who make good and bad matches in an occupation. We extend our analysis to feature an additional …

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Are there Gender-specific Preferences for Location Factors? A Grouped Conditional Logit-Model of Interregional Migration Flows in Germany

Schneider, Lutz; Kubis, Alexander - Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle (IWH) - 2009

answered by quantifying the impact of location characteristics on interregional migration flows across Germany. The analysis is …

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Breaking Out Of Poverty Traps: Internal Migration And Interregional Convergence In Russia

Guriev, Sergei; Vakulenko, Elena S. - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2015

We study barriers to labour mobility using panel data on gross region-to-region migration flows in Russia in 1996-2010. Using both parametric and semiparametric methods and controlling for region-to-region pairwise fixed effects, we find a non-monotonic relationship between income and migration....

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Why Are East Germans Not More Mobile?: Analyzing the Impact of Local Networks on Migration Intentions

Boenisch, Peter; Schneider, Lutz - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010

Despite poor regional labour market conditions East Germans exhibit a rather limited willing-ness of leaving their home region. Applying an IV ordered probit approach and using the German Socio Economic Panel (SOEP), we test a local network explanation of lower spatial mobility. Firstly, we find...

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Are Home Owners Really more Unemployed?

Svarer, Michael; Rosholm, Michael; Munch, Jacob Roland - Centre for Applied Microeconometrics (CAM), Økonomisk … - 2003

This paper investigates the effect of home ownership on labour mobility and unemployment duration. We distinguish between finding employment locally, or by being geographically mobile. We find that home ownership hampers the propensity to move for job reasons but improves the chances of finding...

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Are Home Owners Really More Unemployed?

Munch, Jakob Roland; Rosholm, Michael; Svarer, Michael - School of Economics and Management, University of Aarhus

This paper investigates the effects of home-ownership on labour mobility and unemployment duration. We distinguish between finding employment locally or by being geographically mobile. We find that home ownership hampers the propensity to move for job reasons but improves the chances of finding...

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Are Home Owners Really More Unemployed?

Munch, Jakob Roland; Rosholm, Michael; Svarer, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

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Who Can Work Where: Reducing Barriers to Labour Mobility in Canada

Knox, Robert - In: C.D. Howe Institute Backgrounder (2010) 131

Barriers to labour mobility in Canada remain a problem, even though Canadian governments have taken steps to reduce them. In the study, the author says Canada’s regulated professions and skilled trades, which represent about 11 percent of the workforce, face barriers to mobility that have...

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An analysis of regional commuting flows in the European Union

Marvakov, Jordan; Mathä, Thomas Y. - Central Bank of Luxembourg - 2007

Regional labour mobility is of increasing concern in the context of the Single European Monetary Policy, as EMU implies a reduction of national policy options. Thus, it is important that the remaining adjustment mechanisms function effectively. While most of the empirical literature focuses on...

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