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-scale Nazi migration to US occupied regions. Regions that witnessed a Nazi influx exhibit significantly higher voting shares for …
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Economic research on labor migration in the developing world has traditionally focused on the role played by the … microdata, more attention has been paid to the effects of migration on the lives of family members left behind. This paper … examines how the temporary migration of parents for work affects the health outcomes of children left behind using the …
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rregional migration between German labor market regions. Using a spatial v ector-autoregres- sive panel model (SpVar), we find …
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Recent European legislation on immigration has revealed a particular paradox on migration policies. On the one hand … relax limits for immigrants in order to control migration inflows better. To this end, we use a real option approach to … migration choice that assumes that the decision to migrate can be described as an irreversible investment decision. In our model …
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factors which attract highly qualified migrants to specific regions and the role of labour-migration policy is analysed. Our …. Based on these empirical results we discuss options of decentralized migration policy in Germany. -- Migration ; regional … disparities ; labour-migration policy ; Germany …
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This paper provides new evidence on the effect of immigration on election outcomes. Our analysis makes use of data on city districts in Hamburg, Germany, during a period of substantial inflows of immigrants and asylum seekers. We find significant and robust effects for changes in foreigner...
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, distance, networks, common language and colonial relationships, but also by institutional factors such as migration policy, the … the skill composition of migration. …
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The Chinese growth miracle was based on exports and investment in recent years. While strong output growth has been maintained even during the financial crisis, the imbalances within the country increased. To return to a more sustainable path of development, policies are directed to improve the...
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The present paper studies how European integration might affect the migration of workers in the enlarged EU. Unlike the … reduced-form migration models, we base our empirical analysis on the theory of economic geography à la Krugman (1991), which … provides an alternative modelling of migration pull and push factors. Parameters of the theoretical model are estimated …
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