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Meet the need for inclusive urbanization in China : migrants' urban housing demand along their socio-economic transition

Gottschalch, Sören - 2015

China's central government has rightfully recognized that successful urbanization will be decisive for the nation … in China, the paper calls for a housing strategy that accommodates the surging waves of rural to urban migration, one of … the main drivers of urbanization, and that provides migrants with greater urban socio-economic opportunities, improves …

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Migration and educational aspirations : another channel of brain gain?

Böhme, Marcus - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-24

International migration not only enables individuals to earn higher wages but also exposes them to new environments … caregivers in migrant households. Estimates for Moldova show that international migration raises parental aspirations in … shocks in the destination countries and migration networks. These results imply that aspirations are a highly relevant …

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Immigrant-native differences in stockholding : the role of cognitive and non-cognitive skills

Luik, Marc-André; Steinhardt, Max Friedrich - 2015

This paper provides new evidence on native-migrant differences in financial behavior by analyzing the role of noncognitive and cognitive skills. We make use of data from the Health and Retirement Survey (HRS) which is a longitudinal household survey of the older U.S. population containing...

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Financial education for migrants and their families

Atkinson, Adele; Messy, Flore-Anne - 2015

Money remitted by international migrants is a major source of income for many countries around the world, exceeding all international development funds combined. Yet individual migrants and their families are often amongst the most vulnerable people in society, and many face significant barriers...

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Cyclicality of Diaspora Remittances in Zimbabwe

Bonga, Wellington Garikai - 2021

The study examines the cyclicality of diaspora remittances in Zimbabwe. The cyclicality of diaspora remittances aid in confirming whether migrants are moved by altruistic or self-interest motives. The study used annual national income data and diaspora remittances flows data for the country...

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Immigration and the displacement of incumbent households

Adams, Zeno; Blickle, Kristian - 2018 - This version: February 2018

We make use of the universe of immigrants who arrived in Switzerland between 1992 and 2013, granular community level house price and wage data as well as detailed information on the Swiss population to study the effects of immigration on the location choice of incumbent households. Immigration...

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Is the grass really greener? Migrants' improvements in local labor market conditions and financial health

Whitaker, Stephan - 2022

experienced by people who move to a different labor market. Net migration favors local labor markets with lower unemployment and …

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Household finance and income inequality in the euro area

Denk, Oliver; Cazenave-Lacroutz, Alexandre - 2015

The size and composition of assets and liabilities of households differ vastly across the income distribution in euro area countries. This paper shows that differences between income groups in household finance on both sides of the balance sheet contribute to income inequality. The distribution...

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Economic choices and status : measuring preferences for income rank

Mujcic, Redzo; Frijters, Paul - 2010

In this paper we report on the trade-offs that 1,068 Australian university students make between absolute income and the rank of that income in hypothetical income distributions. We find that income rank matters independently of absolute income, with greater weight given to rank by males,...

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Migration and aspirations : are migrants trapped on a hedonic treadmill?

Czaika, Mathias; Vothknecht, Marc - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-21

find evidence that migrants are self-selected along higher individual aspirations acquired (or, inherited) before migration …. However, despite the fact that migration is economically beneficial for most migrants, the migration experience itself seems …

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