erences in the distribution of income and wages using county-level data from Germany. Chapter 2 analyzes the impact of the so …-called Hartz reforms on income inequality in German regions. Chapter 3 investigates the long-term effect of university openings on … the wage distribution in the surrounding area. Chapters 4 and 5 turn to the political consequences of regional income …

This paper examines two issues associated with the impact of migration on household income and poverty. First, existing … corrected for the change in household size. -- migration ; income ; poverty ; underestimation ; reference groups …"This paper examines two issues associated with the impact of migration on household income and poverty. First …

This paper relies on recent proprietary data from the People's Republic of China's (PRC) poor rural minority areas to … examine the importance of credit constraints on internal labor migration. Specifically, a liquidity shock via the PRC … variable framework. The results reveal that the direct effect on migration of MLSA is negative, although the net effect is …

Fifty years ago, China sent more than 16 million urban youths aged 16-19 to rural villages to work and they spent … migration impacted rural economic development in the regions that received a larger number of SDY per capita relative to regions …

immigrants in the late 1980's. Despite common perceptions, I find that the evidence on increased secondary migration after the …