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Tackling Poverty-migration Linkages: Evidence from Ghana and Egypt
Sabates-Wheeler, Rachel; Sabates, Ricardo; Castaldo, Adriana - In: Social Indicators Research 87 (2008) 2, pp. 307-328
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009400781
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Heterogeneity in the Egyptian informal labour market: choice or obligation?
Harati, Rawaa - HAL - 2013
This paper provides historical and empirical arguments that can explain the development of the Egyptian informal sector. After recalling the various approaches proposed in the literatures, it identifies the configuration that overrides the Egyptian labor market by allowing for the heterogeneity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011026091
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Heterogeneity in the Egyptian informal labour market: choice or obligation?.
Harati, Rawaa - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2013
This paper provides historical and empirical arguments that can explain the development of the Egyptian informal sector. After recalling the various approaches proposed in the literatures, it identifies the configuration that overrides the Egyptian labor market by allowing for the heterogeneity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010640971
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Mobility and the Return to Education: Testing a Roy Model with Multiple Markets
Dahl, Gordon B. - University of Rochester - Center for Economic Research … - 2002
Self-selected migration presents one potential explanation for why observed returns to a college education in local … U.S., the relative state-to-state migration flows of college- versus high school-educated individuals respond strongly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005808120
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Understanding Neighbourhood Effects: Selection Bias and Residential Mobility
Bergström, Lina; van Ham, Maarten - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
The number of studies investigating neighbourhood effects has increased rapidly over the last two decades. Although many of these studies claim to have found evidence for neighbourhood effects, most 'evidence' is likely the result of reversed causality. The main challenge in modelling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008680890
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Unemployment and Migration: Does Moving Help?
Pekkala, Sari - Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus (VATT), Government … - 2002
This paper studies the migration behaviour of the unemployed in Finland, and analyses the causal effect of moving on …-employability. Hence, migration alone may not be a very effective mechanism for alleviating individual unemployment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005545962
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Unemployment, selective employment measures and inter-regional mobility of labour
Hämäläinen, Kari - In: Papers in Regional Science 81 (2002) 4, pp. 423-441
This article examines the impact of selective employment measures on the subsequent migration behaviour of the … participants. We hypothesise that employment measures targeted at high unemployment regions may discourage out-migration of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005382054
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Language Usage, Participation, Employment and Earnings
Aldashev, Alisher; Gernandt, Johannes; Thomsen, Stephan L. - Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaft, … - 2007
Language ability may not only affect the earnings of the individual, but the participation to participate in the labor market or becoming employed as well. It may also affect selection of people into economic sectors and occupation. In this paper the effects of language ability on earnings are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005702989
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Labour Market Outcomes and Egypt’s Migration Potential
Amer, Mona; Fargues, Philippe - Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), … - 2014
Will the radical political changes Egypt has gone through since early 2011 have an impact on emigration from the … consequences of the Egyptian revolution might for migration, a questionnaire survey was conducted amongst Egyptian youth in 2013 …. The objective of this paper is to analyse the Egyptian labour market together with Egyptian migration to see whether …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010814345
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International migration, remittances, and the human capital formation of Egyptian children
Koska, Onur A.; Saygin, Perihan Özge; Çağatay, Selim; … - In: International Review of Economics & Finance 28 (2013) C, pp. 38-50
We study the roles that migration and remittances play in the human capital formation of children in Egypt. Our … labor force, the family disruption effect of migration dominates the income effect of remittances, the likelihood of labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011048249