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We develop a dynamic spatial model in which heterogeneous workers are imperfectly mobile and forward-looking and yet all structural fundamentals can be inverted without assuming that the economy is in a stationary spatial equilibrium. Exploiting this novel feature of the model, we show that the...
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unemployment, and interregional labour migration. The RHOMOLO model is parameterised by estimating the key structural parameters … channels of adjustment to macro-economic and policy shocks in the EU. In contrast, labour migration plays a secondary role in …
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, an exogenous push factor that raised Mexican migration to the US. In the short run, high-immigration states see their low …
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Previous literature shows that internal migration rates are strongly procyclical. This would seem to imply that … the case. I document that net in-migration rates decreased in areas more affected by the Great Recession. Using various IV … conclude that internal migration might help to alleviate up to one third of the effects of the crisis on wages in the most …
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Together with the rapid growth of the Chinese economy, there has been a growing divide in the earnings of urban and rural residents. In this paper we focus on China's household registration system, or "hukou", as a potential source of the earnings gap. Using multiple waves of data from the...
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Is moving to the countryside a credible commitment device for couples? Weinvestigate whether lowering the arrival rate of potential alternative partners bymoving to a less populated area lowers the dissolution risk for a sample of Danishcouples. We find that of the couples who married in the...
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Large scale rural-to-urban migration and China's household registration system have resulted in about 61 million … childhood as a result of migration is associated with increased criminality in adulthood. Control functions and sibling fixed … effects are used to identify causal impacts. Parental absence due to migration is found to increase the propensity of adult …
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We study how the migration decision of young women in rural China is shaped by the return arrangement and opportunities … women has recently disappeared. We propose that the temporary nature of migration and an earlier return time relative to men … permanent migration, women stayed in school longer. Empirical evidence is consistent with this hypothesis. Marriage motives and …
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How does the distribution of individual preferences evolve as a result of marriage between individuals with different preferences? Could a family rule be self-enforcing given individual preferences, and remain such for several generations despite preference evolution? We show that it is in a...
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affect the migration decisions of individuals, to the extent that those states approving same-sex marriage can be considered … less discriminatory. Results show that that legal reform permanently increased the migration flow of homosexuals moving to … driving our estimates since the migration flow of homosexuals is not limited to border or close states. Supplemental analysis …
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