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The isolated states of America : home state bias and the impact of state borders on mobility

Wilson, Riley - 2023

I document a new fact about mobility within the United States. County-to-county migration and commuting drop discretely at state borders. People are three times as likely to move to a county 15 miles away, but in the same state, than to an equally-distant county across state lines. Standard...

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Migration and informal insurance

Meghir, Costas; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq; Mommaerts, Corina; … - 2019 - Current version: July 10, 2019

Do new migration opportunities for rural households change the nature and extent of informal risk sharing? We experimentally document that randomly offering poor rural households subsidies to migrate leads to a 40% improvement in risk sharing in their villages. We explain this finding using a...

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Migration and informal insurance

Meghir, Costas; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq; Mommaerts, Corina; … - 2020 - Current version: August 22, 2020

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Industry and Identity : The Migration Linkage Between Economic and Cultural Change in 19th Century Britain

Fouka, Vasiliki; Serlin, Theo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

How does economic modernization affect group identity? Modernization theory emphasizes how labor migration led to the … identity change and its variation across space. We develop and estimate a quantitative spatial model in which migration and … cultural identities are inter-dependent. Different components of economic modernization had different effects on identity …

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Genetic distance and international migrant selection

Krieger, Tim; Renner, Laura; Ruhose, Jens - 2015

This paper looks at the effect of the relatedness of two countries, measured by their genetic distance, on educational migrant selection. We analyze bilateral country-level education-specific migration stocks from 85 sending countries to the 15 main destination countries in 2000 and show that...

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The role of landscape amenities in regional development: A survey of migration, regional economic and hedonic pricing studies

Waltert, Fabian; Schläpfer, Felix - 2007

Quality of life factors continue to gain importance in residential location decisions as well as location decisions of firms. One such factor is an attractive local landscape. The aim of this paper is to provide a survey of the empirical literature on the role of landscape amenities in local...

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Policy-induced internal migration : an empirical investigation of the Canadian case

Day, Kathleen M.; Winer, Stanley L. - 2005

We investigate the influence of public policy on interprovincial migration in Canada using new aggregated migration data for 1974-1996, the longest period studied so far. We consider the consequences of regional variation in a variety of policies, and also investigate the effects of certain...

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Do the Best Go West? An Analysis of the Self-Selection of Employed East-West Migrants in Germany

Brücker, Herbert; Trübswetter, Parvati - 2004

Since the inequality of earnings in East Germany has approached West German levels in the late 1990s, the standard Roy model predicts that a positive selection bias of East-West migrants should disappear. Using a switching regression model and data from the IABemployment sample, we find however...

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Russian Cities in Transition : The Impact of Market Forces in the 1990s

Stuart, Robert C.; Gang, Ira N. - 2004

This paper analyses Russian city growth during the command and transition eras. Our main focus is on understanding the extent to which market forces are replacing command forces, and the resulting changes in Russian city growth patterns. We examine net migration rates for a sample of 171 medium...

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Why Do People Still Live in East Germany?

Hunt, Jennifer - 2000

In 1997 GDP per capita in East Germany was 57% of that of West Germany, wage rates were 75% of western levels, and the unemployment rate was at least double the western rate of 7.8%. One would expect that if capital flows and trade in goods failed to bring convergence, labor flows would respond,...

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