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Rural‐urban migration, welfare and employment : comparing results from Thailand and Vietnam

Grote, Ulrike; Waibel, Hermann - 2017

This paper compares empirical findings on the motivation and welfare impacts of rural-urban migration from two comprehensive case studies conducted in Thailand and Vietnam. Panel data of around 4,000 rural households and tracking surveys of close to 1,000 migrants are used from the two...

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Data sources on migrants' labour market and education integration in Austria

Huber, Peter; Fink, Marian; Horvath, Gerard Thomas - 2020

As part of a larger research project, we survey existing data sets and research results on immigrants' integration success in Austria focusing on educational and labour market outcomes. We consider different registers as well as survey data available to researchers on a regular basis and compare...

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Demographic and economic trends in a rural Europe in transition

Johansson, Mats; Nilsson, Pia; Weslund, Hans - 2014 - Draft version - Work in progress

Rural Europe is in a phase of huge transition both from a demographic and economic-structural point of view. This paper is focused on demographic and economic-structural changes in differing rural areas and the connection between these processes. This does not exclude the relations to urban...

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From independence to the Euro introduction : varieties of capitalism in the Baltic States

Wrobel, Ralph - 2015

The Baltic States, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, are very successful in transformation. From 1991 to 2015 they … in 2014 and Lithuania in 2015. Thereof follow two questions. First, why all three Baltic countries are so successful? And … secondly, do we really find everywhere the pattern of the "Shining star" Estonia, followed by Latvia and at least Lithuania …

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Interrelationships between human capital, migration and labour markets in the Western Balkans : an econometric investigation

Mara, Isilda; Landesmann, Michael - 2021

The high outward mobility that has characterised the countries in the Western Balkan (WB) region over the past three decades is often seen as tightly linked to severe labour market imbalances and persistently low utilisation of human capital over time. To shed light on these issues, we estimate...

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The economics of internal migration : advances and policy questions

Jia, Ning; Molloy, Raven S.; Smith, Christopher L.; … - 2022

We review developments in research on within-country migration, focusing on internal migration in the U.S. We begin by describing approaches to modelling individuals' migration decisions and equilibrium outcomes across local areas. Next, we summarize evidence regarding the impact of migration on...

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Spatial typology of the ageing process in the European Union on the Level NUTS 2 regions

Šotkovský, Ivan - 2014

The article is deal with the spatial differences of the demographic events between European Union regions. We are research spatial diferencies of ageing process between 272 NUTS 2 regions today. The analyses on this spatial level are working with the creation of cartogram method for processing...

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Understanding urban migration in Viet Nam : evidence from a micro-macro link

Vo, Huong - 2021

This paper focuses on the demographic transition from rural to urban areas in Viet Nam. An empirical framework is developed to measure the relative impact of location characteristics versus individual characteristics in determining the destination choices of migrants. Assuming that locational...

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A "healthy immigrant effect" or a "sick immigrant effect"? : selection and policies matter

Constant, Amelie; García-Muñoz, Teresa M.; Neuman, … - 2015

An extensive body of research related to immigrants in a variety of countries has documented a "healthy immigrant effect" (HIE). When immigrants arrive in the host country they are healthier than comparable native populations, but their health status may deteriorate with additional years in the...

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Micro and macro determinants of health : older immigrants in Europe

Constant, Amelie; García-Muñoz, Teresa M.; Neuman, … - 2014

We study the health determinants of immigrant men and women over the age of fifty, in Europe, and compare them to natives. We utilize the unique Survey of Health Aging and Retirement (SHARE) and augmented it with macroeconomic information on the 22 home countries and 16 host countries. Using...

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