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Labor Migration, Human Capital Agglomeration and Regional Development in China
Fu, Yuming - 2011
We estimate a skill-based directional migration model to assess the effects of regional human capital agglomeration on labor migration in China. Upon accounting for regional differentials in skill-based compensation, cost-of-living, amenities, and the like, model estimates indicate the...
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The Effect of Childhood Migration on Human Capital Accumulation : Evidence from Rural-Urban Migrants in Indonesia
Resosudarmo, Budy P.; Suryadarma, Daniel - 2014
human capital outcomes. To our knowledge, this paper is one of only several papers, especially in the context of a …-level propensity to migrate, calculated from the Indonesian intercensal survey, as an instrument. We find that childhood migration to … childhood migrants face a lower probability to be underweight by about 15 percentage points as adults. However, we find no …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014178674
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Impact of Paternal Temporary Absence on Children Left Behind
Booth, Alison L. - 2009
Using the first two waves of the Vietnam Living Standards Survey, we investigate how a father's temporary absence affects children left behind in terms of their school attendance, household expenditures on education, and nonhousework labor supply in the 1990s. The estimating subsample is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155610
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The economic integration of forced migrants: Evidence for post-war Germany
Bauer, Thomas K.; Braun, Sebastian; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2011
The flight and expulsion of Germans from Eastern Europe during and after World War II constitutes one of the largest forced population movements in history. We analyze the economic integration of these forced migrants and their offspring in West Germany. The empirical results suggest that even a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277347
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Rural-to-urban migration, human capital, and agglomeration
Stark, Oded; Fan, C. Simon - 2007
A new general-equilibrium model that links together rural-to-urban migration, the externality effect of the average level of human capital, and agglomeration economies shows that in developing countries, unrestricted rural-to-urban migration reduces the average income of both rural and urban...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011470832
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Rural-to-urban migration, human capital, and agglomeration
Stark, Oded (contributor); Fan, Chengze Simon (contributor) - 2007
A new general-equilibrium model that links together rural-to-urban migration, the externality effect of the average level of human capital, and agglomeration economies shows that in developing countries, unrestricted rural-to-urban migration reduces the average income of both rural and urban...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003737727
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The economic integration of forced migrants : evidence for post-war Germany
Bauer, Thomas K.; Braun, Sebastian; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2011
The flight and expulsion of Germans from Eastern Europe during and after World War II constitutes one of the largest forced population movements in history. We analyze the economic integration of these forced migrants and their off spring in West Germany. The empirical results suggest that even...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009579631
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The economic integration of forced migrants : evidence for post-war Germany
Bauer, Thomas K.; Braun, Sebastian; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2011
The flight and expulsion of Germans from Eastern Europe during and after World War II constitutes one of the largest forced population movements in history. We analyze the economic integration of these forced migrants and their offspring in West Germany. The empirical results suggest that even a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009162107
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The economic integration of forced migrants : evidence for Post-War Germany
Bauer, Thomas K.; Braun, Sebastian; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2011
The flight and expulsion of Germans from Eastern Europe during and after World War II constitutes one of the largest forced population movements in history. We analyze the economic integration of these forced migrants and their offspring in West Germany. The empirical results suggest that even a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009310883
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Predictors of employment growth and unemployment in US central cities : 1990 - 2010
Wolf-Powers, Laura - 2013
This paper considers employment growth and unemployment from 1990-2010 in a cross-section of cities in light of practical tools that city governments have at their disposal to provide relief. In particular, I test educational attainment (both initial levels and growth over time) and public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009761392