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Returns to migration : the role of educational attainment in rural Tanzania

Kudo, Yuya - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2012

education in the migration premium. By separating migrants into those that moved out of original villages but remained within … Kagera and those who left the region, this study finds that, in consumption, the return on investment in education is higher … at both destinations. However, whilst the higher return on education fully explains the gains associated with migration …

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Are ghettos good or bad? : evidence from US internal migration

Zhang, Junfu; Liang, Zheng - 2014

It is difficult to determine whether ghettos are good or bad, partly because racial segregation may have some effects that are unobservable. To overcome this challenge, we present a migration choice model that allows for estimating the overall effects of racial segregation. The key idea...

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Population decline in Lithuania : who lives in declining regions and who leaves?

Ubarevičienė, Rūta; Ham, Maarten van - 2016

Since the 1990s, Lithuania lost almost a quarter of its population, and some regions within the country lost more than 50% of their residents. Such a sharp population decline poses major challenges to politicians, policy makers and planners. This study aims to get more insight into the recent...

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Regional migration, insurance and economic shocks : evidence from Nicaraguax

Millán, Teresa Molina - 2015

To test whether transfers sent and received by regional migrants serve an insurance role, this paper estimates the causal impact of income shocks at a migrant's origin and destination location on the bilateral transfer of funds. Using rainfall shocks in rural Nicaragua, I find that migrants aged...

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Internal migration in Spain : a complementary approach

Maza, Adolfo - In: Economies : open access journal 8 (2020) 3/59, pp. 1-23

This study examines the determinants of internal migration of working-age population among provinces in Spain in the aftermath of the economic crisis. It pays special attention to two features of migration that have not been sufficiently studied so far: (a) Distance, namely the differences...

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Childhood determinants of internal youth migration in Senegal

Herrera, Catalina; Sahn, David E. - 2020

find that the determinants are heterogeneous by gender and destination. The higher the fathers' education, the more (less …

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Economic situation of Eastern Poland and population migration movement

Pietrzak, Michał Bernard; Wilk, Justyna; Chrzanowska, … - 2013

The aim of this paper is to examine population migration flows in relation to the eastern Poland and its economic situation. The empirical study refers to the period 2008-2010. In the first part of the paper, the economic situations of 66 Polish sub-regions were examined. The study used the...

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The Effect of Migration on Income Convergence: Meta-Analytic Evidence

Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2009

Using meta-analytical techniques, we focus on 11 studies that explicitly measure the effect of a net migration variable in neoclassical convergence models and derive 57 comparable effect sizes. The data suggest that an increase in the net migration rate of one percentage point increases on...

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Childhood residential mobility and adult outcomes

Tønnessen, Marianne; Telle, Kjetil; Syse, Astri - 2013

This study analyses the relation between moving during childhood and four different outcomes later in life. We use detailed data on complete cohorts born in Norway between 1965 and 1980 (N=967 151), their parents and siblings, and information on all their moves between Norway's municipalities....

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Who is an internal migrant?

Sharma, Rasadhika; Grote, Ulrike - 2019

There is no internationally accepted definition of an internal migrant. Different surveys and academic papers use varied definitions that are open to subjectivity. Our paper stresses this issue and tests the sensitivity of results obtained by econometric analysis to the use of different defining...

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