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The Time Pattern of Internal Migration: Human Capital Meets Job Matching
Allen, Jeremiah - In: The Review of Regional Studies 33 (2003) 3, pp. 284-95
A human capital model of migration that includes location-specific capital and job search is integrated with job …-matching/flows approach to labor markets. This generates a model that is consistent with the observed pro-cyclicality of new migration. Unlike … all previous models, this model not only explains, it predicts the observed counter-cyclicality of return migration. …
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Provincial valuations of human capital in urban China, inter-provincial inequality and the implicit value of a Guangdong hukou
Zax, Jeffrey S. - 2016
This paper assesses regional inequality in contemporary urban China by predicting earningss for individual workers in multiple provinces, comparing the province of maximum predicted earnings to the province of residence and assessing the predicted gains from relocation. The paper performs the...
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Workers on the move: migrated labour in post-reform india
Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Migration is a universal phenomenon. From time immemorial women and men have travelled in search of better living … migration of due to Push factors will decrease while that due to Pull factors will increase. One of the important facets of … migration in Indian context, recent studies on migration in India have focussed mainly on rural-urban migration or on migration …
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Potential emigration of Latvian labour force after joining the EU and its impact on Latvian labour market
Hazans, Mihails - Baltic International Center for Economic Policy Studies … - 2003
during the transition period as well as in the years to come. Updated inter-regional migration rates show that Latvian … countervailing factors; outflow rates tended to be larger from high unemployment regions. Analysis of individual migration decisions … made in 1989-1999 and migration plans for 1999-2002 confirms significance of economic incentives for geographical mobility …
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On the taxing of migrants' earnings while retaining a migrant workforce
Stark, Oded; Budzinski, Wiktor - 2018
We study policies that are aimed at retaining a migrant workforce in a Gulf State while introducing a tax on migrant earnings. We single out Qatar as a case study. We consider two types of migrants: target migrants, and non-target migrants. If migrants are target migrants, we show that in order...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011872400
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On the taxing of migrants' earnings while retaining a migrant workforce
Stark, Oded; Budzinski, Wiktor - 2018
We study policies that are aimed at retaining a migrant workforce in a Gulf State while introducing a tax on migrant earnings. We single out Qatar as a case study. We consider two types of migrants: target migrants, and non-target migrants. If migrants are target migrants, we show that in order...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011963551
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On the taxing of migrants' earnings while retaining a migrant workforce
Stark, Oded; Budzinski, Wiktor - 2018
We study policies that are aimed at retaining a migrant workforce in a Gulf State while introducing a tax on migrant earnings. We single out Qatar as a case study. We consider two types of migrants: target migrants, and non-target migrants. If migrants are target migrants, we show that in order...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011879075
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On the taxing of migrants' earnings while retaining a migrant workforce
Stark, Oded; Budzinski, Wiktor - 2018
We study policies that are aimed at retaining a migrant workforce in a Gulf State while introducing a tax on migrant earnings. We single out Qatar as a case study. We consider two types of migrants: target migrants, and non-target migrants. If migrants are target migrants, we show that in order...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011867669
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Labor Market Effects of Migration-Related Supply Shocks: Evidence from Internally Displaced Populations in Colombia
Calderón, Valentina; Ibáñez, Ana María - UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES-CEDE - 2005
This paper studies the labor market effects of migration-related supply shocks. We exploit forced migration caused by …. While migration flows are exogenously produced by conflict dynamics, location decisions might be positively correlated with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008528467
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Labor Market Effects of Migration-Related Supply Shocks: Evidence from Internally Displaced Populations in Colombia
Calderón, Valentina; Ibáñez, Ana María - Households in Conflict Network - 2009
This paper studies the labor market effects of migration-related supply shocks. We exploit forced migration caused by …. While migration flows are exogenously produced by conflict dynamics, location decisions might be positively correlated with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008534069