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In this paper we conduct an econometric analysis of migration at the level of Russian cities as a function of socio …-economic indicators. We use panel data of migration rates of the towns in Central Russia and Siberia from 2004 to 2008. Our results … suggest completely different models for these districts. The key factors which determine migration flows are labor market …
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Little is known about the individual location behaviour of self-employed entrepreneurs. This paper investigates the geographical mobility behaviour of self-employed entrepreneurs, as compared to employees, thereby shedding new light onto the place embeddedness of self-employment. It examines...
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of interregional migration in Great Britain. By exploiting retrospective information on residency we control for late …
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by investigating the determinants of the migration balance of German cities between 2000 and 2010. Furthermore, it … compares the effects of several labour- and amenity-related variables on migration rates of highly qualified workers and the …
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This paper investigates the determinants of interregional migration in Italy for the period 1985-2006, during which … different migration trends took place. In so doing, in addition to the traditional variables of Harris and Todaro model, the …-T model, due to the complexity of the internal migration process, omits some important economic and non-economic variables and …
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distance-related migration costs cannot explain the lower distance sensitivity of educated and risk-loving individuals. …
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distance-related migration costs cannot explain the lower distance sensitivity of educated and risk-loving individuals. …
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This paper examines the relation between ambition, as a form of dynamic human capital, and the escalator role of high order metropolitan regions, as originally identified by Fielding (1989). It argues that occupational progression in such places particularly depends on concentrations both of...
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A human capital model of migration that includes location-specific capital and job search is integrated with job …-matching/flows approach to labor markets. This generates a model that is consistent with the observed pro-cyclicality of new migration. Unlike … all previous models, this model not only explains, it predicts the observed counter-cyclicality of return migration. …
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more than others. This specificity - along with a period of exogenous location (before migration can be carried out …) - increases the opportunity costs of moving, diminishes migration flows between dissimilar locations and increases valuation of … NLSY79 data show that childhood investments affect migration flows in the way proposed by the model. …
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