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"Long-Term Benefits from Temporary Migration: Does the Gender of the Migrant Matter?"
DeSilva, Sanjaya - Levy Economics Institute - 2013
economic position. We also find that remittances from females emphasize investment in home improvements and acquisition of farm … land and nonfarm assets, whereas remittances of men are channeled more toward housing assets and business ventures. …
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The mixed effects of migration: Community-level migration and birthweight in Mexico
Hamilton, Erin R.; Choi, Kate H. - In: Social Science & Medicine 132 (2015) C, pp. 278-286
, remittances are beneficial. We extend this work by considering a different measure of infant health in addition to LBW: macrosomia …-migration, receipt of remittances, and return migration) and the risk of LBW and macrosomia. We examine this association using two sets … potential sources of endogeneity. Whereas community remittances and return migration are associated with lower risk of LBW, they …
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The role of housing in labor reallocation
Davis, Morris A.; Fisher, Jonas D. M.; Veracierto, Marcelo - 2010
This paper builds a dynamic general equilibrium model of cities and uses it to analyze the role of local housing markets and moving costs in determining the character and extent of labor reallocation in the US economy. Labor reallocation in the model is driven by idiosyncratic city-specific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292111
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The self-selection of commuters
Huber, Peter - 2011
I analyze the skill structure of commuters in 15 EU countries. Theory suggests that higher returns to education in receiving regions and shorter commuting distances favor positive selection of commuters. Empirically all types of commuters in most EU countries are more skilled than non-commuters....
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Regional disparities in employment of high-skilled foreigners: Determinants and options for migration policy in Germany
Burkert, Carola; Niebuhr, Annekatrin; Wapler, Rüdiger - 2007
We investigate the regional disparities in high-skilled foreign employment in Germany. The importance of different factors which attract highly qualified migrants to specific regions and the role of labour-migration policy is analysed. Our results show that labour-market variables as well as the...
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Why are educated and risk-loving persons more mobile across regions?
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; … - 2013
Why are better educated and more risk-friendly persons more mobile across regions? To answer this question, we use micro data on internal migrants from the German Socio- Economic Panel (SOEP) 2000 - 2006 and merge this information with a unique proxy for region-pair-specific cultural distances...
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Economic liberalisation and the mobility of minority groups: Evidence from Māori in New Zealand
Sin, Isabelle; Stillman, Steven - In: IZA Journal of Migration 5 (2016) 4, pp. 1-18
Between 1984 and 1993, New Zealand undertook comprehensive market-oriented economic reforms. In this paper, we use census data to examine how the internal mobility of M¯aori compares to that of Europeans in New Zealand in the period after these reforms. It is often suggested that M¯aori are...
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Social capital and migration intentions in post-communist countries
Huber, Peter; Mikula, Stepan - 2018
We analyse the impact of social capital on the willingness to migrate in 28 post-communist and five western European comparator countries using the Life in Transition Survey. We find substantially lower levels of professional social capital among the older cohorts in post-communist than in the...
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Why Do People Still Live in East Germany?
Hunt, Jennifer - 2000
In 1997 GDP per capita in East Germany was 57% of that of West Germany, wage rates were 75% of western levels, and the unemployment rate was at least double the western rate of 7.8%. One would expect that if capital flows and trade in goods failed to bring convergence, labor flows would respond,...
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Do the Best Go West? An Analysis of the Self-Selection of Employed East-West Migrants in Germany
Trübswetter, Parvati; Brücker, Herbert - 2004
Since the inequality of earnings in East Germany has approached West German levels in the late 1990s, the standard Roy model predicts that a positive selection bias of East-West migrants should disappear. Using a switching regression model and data from the IABemployment sample, we find however...
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