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) extending the retirement age, (ii) augmenting labor migration within the region, and (iii) through using population accounting …
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Labor saving innovations are essential to increase agricultural productivity, but they might also increase inequality through displacing labor. Empirical evidence on such labor displacements is limited. This study uses representative data at local and national scales to analyze labor market...
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We examine households' temporary international migration response when faced with shocks in rural Kyrgyzstan. Using a … household fixed effects model, we find that while a drought shock increases migration, a winter shock reduces migration. We … increase in the need for labor services. Migration increases when the former effect of a shock dominates and it reduces when …
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We use panel data for rural Kyrgyzstan to examine households' international migration response when faced with shocks …. Using a household fixed effects regression model, we find that while a drought shock increases the likelihood of migration …, winter and earthquake shocks reduce the likelihood of migration. We use a simple theoretical framework to illustrate the …
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We use panel data for rural Kyrgyzstan to examine households' international migration response when faced with shocks …. Using a household fixed effects regression model, we find that while a drought shock increases the likelihood of migration …, winter and earthquake shocks reduce the likelihood of migration. We use a simple theoretical framework to illustrate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497952
better information on migration and for wage premiums and discounts to be estimated across sectors and countries. The second … migration policies. Whilst it is possible to share the burdens of ageing and dependency through migration, this will not happen … under present arrangements. Migration cannot continue to be treated differently to trade and finance. A framework needs to …
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it is possible to share the burdens of ageing and dependency through migration, this will not happen under present …
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focus on seasonal migration from rural to urban areas as a potential coping strategy and review the evidence on the effects … of encouraging seasonal migration through transport subsidies. Over the past 10 years, we have conducted a series of … randomized control trials in Bangladesh and Indonesia that provided rural agricultural workers with small migration subsidies to …
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This paper studies the determinants of naturalization among Turkish and ex-Yugoslav immigrants in Germany differentiating between actual and planned citizenship. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel, we measure the impact that integration and ethnicity indicators exert on the probability to...
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This paper examines the impact of education, trade, governance and distance on technology diffusion and TFP in Latin America – specifically South America and Mexico (SAM) – and East Asia, over the 32 years preceding the Great Recession (1976–2007). Findings are: i) TFP rises with...
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