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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 … in Lithuania. The main focus is on understanding who lives in those regions which are rapidly losing population, and who … regions. This paper provides empirical evidence of selective migration and increasing regional disparities in Lithuania. While …

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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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Migration and Environment

Millock, Katrin - 2015

The concept of environmental migrants occurs frequently in the policy debate, in particular with regard to climate change and its incidence on low-income countries. This paper reviews the economic studies of environmentally-induced migration. It includes the recent empirical analyses that try to...

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Forecasting internal migration in Russia using Google Trends : Evidence from Moscow and Saint Petersburg

Fantazzini, Dean; Pushchelenko, Julia; Mironenkov, Alexey; … - 2021

This paper examines the suitability of Google Trends data for the modelling and forecasting of interregional migration in Russia. Monthly migration data, search volume data, and macro variables are used with a set of univariate and multivariate models to study the migration data of the two...

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Birth dearth and local population decline

Asquith, Brian J.; Mast, Evan - 2024

Local population decline has spread rapidly since 1970, with half of counties losing population between 2010 and 2020. The workhorse economic models point to net out-migration, likely driven by changing local economies and amenities, as the cause of this trend. However, we show that the share of...

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Extreme Weather Events and Internal Migration: Evidence from Mongolia

Roeckert, Julian; Kraehnert, Kati - In: Economics of Disasters and Climate Change 6 (2021) 1, pp. 95-128

This article examines the effects of extreme weather events on internal migration in Mongolia. Our focus is on dzuds, extremely harsh winters characterized by very cold temperature, snowfall anomalies, and/or storms causing very high livestock mortality. We exploit exogenous variation in the...

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Russian Cities in Transition : The Impact of Market Forces in the 1990s

Gang, Ira N.; Stuart, Robert C. - 2021

This paper analyses Russian city growth during the command and transition eras. Our main focus is on understanding the extent to which market forces are replacing command forces, and the resulting changes in Russian city growth patterns. We examine net migration rates for a sample of 171 medium...

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Mobility Where Mobility is Illegal : Internal Migration and City Growth in the Soviet Union

Gang, Ira N.; Stuart, Robert C. - 1999

This paper examines an important anomaly in the internal migration history of the former Soviet Union (FSU). While many cities were closed in the sense of explicitly limiting growth of city population from migration, it was difficult to assess the effectiveness of these controls. We analyze a...

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The Economic Determinants of Internal Migration Flows in Russia During Transition

Brown, Annette N. - 2015

I analyze the patterns of migration by testing the influence of traditional economic and amenity factors and of housing market reform on the direction of migration flows. I improve on the few previous studies of Russian migration during transition by analyzing gross flows rather than net flows...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014067671

Russian Cities in Transition : The Impact of Market Forces in the 1990s

Gang, Ira N.; Stuart, Robert C. - 2004

This paper analyses Russian city growth during the command and transition eras. Our main focus is on understanding the extent to which market forces are replacing command forces and the resulting changes in Russian city growth patterns. We examine net migration rates for a sample of 171 medium...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014071318

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