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Sorting of high-ability workers is a main source of urban-rural disparities in economic outcomes. Less is known about when such human capital sorting occurs and who it involves. Using data on 15 cohorts of university graduates in Sweden, we demonstrate significant sorting to urban regions on...
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This working paper describes return migration of Germany's labor force and its relevance for regional migration … migration accounts for 27 percent of all migration across regions in the timeframe of 2004 to 2017. However, the importance of … return migration for the overall volume of migration varies across different groups of individuals. Highly qualified …
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characteristics of more than 90 percent of Germany's labor force. Our analyses show, that migration balances of rural regions are not … per se negative, but are characterized by a marked heterogeneity and results of the migration balance between rural and … non-rural areas fluctuate during the period of observation. Regional migration balances also differ by the observed groups …
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Contrary to the welfare magnet hypothesis, empirical evidence suggests that immigration decisions are not made on the basis of the relative generosity of the receiving nation's social benefits. Even when immigrants are found to use welfare more intensively than natives, the gap is mostly...
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Interstate migration in the United States has declined by 50 percent since the mid-1980s. This paper studies the role … in the labor market, which affects the migration rate of all workers. We document that an increase in the share of middle …-aged workers (those ages 40 to 60) in the working-age population in one state causes a large fall in the migration rate of all …
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Intensified European integration, enlargement of the EU, and increasing migration activity worldwide have pushed … migration and migration policy to the forefront of the European agenda. This paper identifies the salient questions to be … addressed by any educated migration policy. It embeds this discussion into a systematic classification of economic migration …
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This working paper describes return migration of Germany’s labor force and its relevance for regional migration … migration accounts for 27 percent of all migration across regions in the timeframe of 2004 to 2017. However, the importance of … return migration for the overall volume of migration varies across different groups of individuals. Highly qualified …
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