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influences measurements of urban poverty and inequality in China, and also compares how other indicators of well-being differ for …-income welfare indicators such as housing conditions and access to social insurance programs. -- Migration ; urban ; poverty … measures of urban income inequality. Significant differences between migrants and local residents are found for non …
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. However, migration also changes relative wages, alters the distribution of skills and affects equality in the receiving …
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invented anew by transnational migration networks in a globalized world. There is no evidence of the supposed superiority of … complementary and mutual benefiting to those of the other. Under certain conditions they even contribute to poverty alleviation in …
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add migration variables to robust determinants of growth and find positive and significant relationships between migrants …
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We exploit the increase in immigration flows into western European countries that took place in the 2000s to assess whether immigration affects crime victimization and the perception of criminality among European natives. Using data from the European Social Survey, the Labour Force Survey and...
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The extant literature has focused on migration's consequences for the receiving countries. In this paper, we ask a … methodology combining statistical matching with difference-in-differences, we assess migration's effects on the well-being of …, migration enhances subjective well-being and satisfaction with freedom. The results are robust to sensitivity checks …
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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 migration. We use data on male migrants from three rounds of Turkish …
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Ecuador has become the third largest receiver of the 4.3 million Venezuelans that left their country in the last five years, hosting around 10% of them. Little is known about the characteristics of these migrants and their labor market outcomes. This paper fills this gap, analyzing a new large...
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We analyze the effects of governmental redistribution of income on migration patterns,using an Italian administrative … level covariates, migration costs, and when testing for stochastic dominance of the skill distributions of migrants and … stayers. Policy simulations are run in order to gauge the magnitude of these migration effects. Based on estimated …
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STEM-focused industries are critical to the innovation-driven economy. As many firms are running short of STEM workers, international immigrants are increasingly recognized as a potential for high-tech job recruitment. This paper studies STEM occupations in Sweden 2011-2015 and tests hypotheses...
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