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Internal migration and its impact on reducing inter-communal disparities in Chile

Villalobos Barría, Carlos - 2012

migration decision (based on observed and unobserved characteristics). This study finds that the productivity differential is …Based on the affirmation that internal migration in Chile has become increasingly less important as an equalizing … the leading factor explaining migration. However, migration not only depends on individual characteristics, but strongly …

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Do the Best Go West? An Analysis of the Self-Selection of Employed East-West Migrants in Germany

Brücker, Herbert; Trübswetter, Parvati - 2004

Since the inequality of earnings in East Germany has approached West German levels in the late 1990s, the standard Roy … differentials as well as differences in employment opportunities are the central forces which drive East-West migration after …

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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

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Urbanization and risk preference in the People's Republic of China : a decomposition of the self-selection and assimilation effects

Shi, Xiaojun; Zhu, Yan - 2017

This paper argues that urbanization reshapes individual's risk preference by exerting self-selection and assimilation effects. Taking advantage of the unique hukou system in the People's Republic of China, we initiate a quasi-experiment method to elicit the two effects, employing the 2013-wave...

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Field of study, earnings, and self-selection

Kirkebøen, Lars; Leuven, Edwin; Mogstad, Magne - 2014

Why do individuals choose different types of post-secondary education, and what are the labor market consequences of those choices? We show that answering these questions is difficult because individuals choose between several unordered alternatives. Even with a valid instrument for every type...

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Field of study, earnings, and self-selection

Kirkebøen, Lars J.; Leuven, Edwin; Mogstad, Magne - 2014 - This version: December 2014

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Family Matters: The Role of the Family in Immigrants' Destination Language Acquisition

Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2002

This paper is concerned with the relationship among family members in the determinants of destination language proficiency among immigrants. A model of immigrant language proficiency is augmented to include dynamics among family members. It is tested using data on a sample of recent immigrants....

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Longitudinal Analysis of Immigrant Occupational Mobility: A Test of the Immigrant Assimilation Hypothesis

Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2002

Using an immigrant assimilation framework, this paper develops a model of the occupational mobility of immigrants and tests the hypotheses using data on adult males from the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia. The theoretical model generates hypotheses regarding a U-shaped pattern of...

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Longitudinal analysis of immigrant occupational mobility : a test of the immigrant assimilation hypothesis

Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2002

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Family matters : the role of the family in immigrants' destination language acquisition

Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2002

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