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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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Per capita income convergence and internal migration in Spain : are foreign-born migrants playing an important role?

Hierro, María; Maza, Adolfo - In: Papers in regional science : the journal of the … 89 (2010) 1, pp. 89-107

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Migration networks and location decisions : evidence from U.S. mass migration

Stuart, Bryan A.; Taylor, Evan J. - 2019

This paper studies how birth town migration networks affected long-run location decisions during historical U.S. migration episodes. We develop a new method to estimate the strength of migration networks for each receiving and sending location. Our estimates imply that when one randomly chosen...

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Microeconometric analyses on economic consequences of selective migration

Ruhose, Jens - 2015

This volume was prepared by Jens Ruhose while he was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes four self-contained chapters that contribute to the understanding of the...

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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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Migration in Vietnam : New Evidence from Recent Surveys

Coxhead, Ian - 2016

migration is higher for young people and those with post-secondary education. Migrants are more likely to be from households … — those present in the household in 2010, but who have moved away by 2012. This yields much tighter results. For education … below upper secondary school, the evidence on positive selection by education is much stronger. However, the ethnic minority …

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China’s 'New Generation' Rural-Urban Migrants : Migration Motivation and Migration Patterns

Hu, Xiaochu - 2012

The majority of China’s roughly 145 million rural-urban migrants were born after 1980, making this population the “new generation” of internal migrant workers. Having been directly influenced by China’s rapid economic growth and recent socio-demographic policy changes, this cohort of...

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Interregional Migration in Germany : Characteristics and Effects for Regions and Migrants

Smolny, Werner; Peukert, Christian - 2011

German unification and the subsequent breakdown of economic activity in East Germany initiated enormous migration flows from East to West Germany. People from East Germany moved towards West Germany, where wages are higher and employment opportunities are more favourable. Our paper takes a...

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Migrant networks and destination choice: evidence from moves across Turkish provinces

Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Duman, Erkan - 2021

This paper estimates effects of birth place migration networks and other location attributes on destination choices of internal migrants conditional on migration. We also study heterogeneity in the role of these factors for migrant types who differ by skill group, age at migration, and reason of...

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Migrant networks and destination choice: evidence from moves across Turkish provinces

Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Duman, Erkan - 2021

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