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This paper reviews the effect of natural disasters on human mobility or migration. Although there is an increase of … natural disasters and migration recently and more patterns to observe, the relationship remains complex. While some authors … find that disasters increase migration, others show that they have only a marginal or no effect or are even negative. Human …
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, housing tenue, income and wealth. Within couple households, housing mobility choices are primarily influenced by the wife …
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Assessing the migration potential and predicting future migration streams are among the most relevant, yet least well … understood topics of migration research. The usual approach taken to address aggregate-level prediction problems is to fit ad hoc … application to the case of EU-enlargement and the ensuing migration streams to be expected from Eastern Europe …
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geographical mobility behavior of self-employed entrepreneurs, as compared to employees, thereby shedding new light onto the place … individual employment careers provides an important methodological advance. In addition, it emphasizes the importance of mobility …
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Assessing the migration potential and predicting future migration streams are among the most relevant, yet least well … understood topics of migration research. The usual approach taken to address aggregate-level prediction problems is to fit ad hoc … application to the case of EU-enlargement and the ensuing migration streams to be expected from Eastern Europe. …
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Assessing the migration potential and predicting future migration streams are among the most relevant, yet least well … understood topics of migration research. The usual approach taken to address aggregate-level prediction problems is to fit ad hoc … application to the case of EU-enlargement and the ensuing migration streams to be expected from Eastern Europe. …
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This paper presents a methodology to identify net demand shocks as well as wage rigidities in heterogeneous labor markets on the basis of nonparametric regression. We show how this approach can be used to make suggestions for immigration policy in economies with labor market rigidities. In an...
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depends crucially on the importance of mobility costs; (2) while higher homeownership may harm macroeconomic labour market …
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The U.S. limits work visas for low-skill jobs outside of agriculture, with a binding quota that firms access via a randomized lottery. We evaluate the marginal impact of the quota on firms entering the 2021 H-2B visa lottery using a novel survey and pre-analysis plan. Firms exogenously...
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