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This paper reviews the effect of natural disasters on human mobility or migration. Although there is an increase of … natural disasters and migration recently and more patterns to observe, the relationship remains complex. While some authors … find that disasters increase migration, others show that they have only a marginal or no effect or are even negative. Human …
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plurilateral agreement's spatial dimension. Chapter 2 provides a gravity analysis of international migration flows to investigate …
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per year. While not all of the affected move across borders, international migration potentially provides an adaptation … mechanism to natural hazards. The aim of this paper is to assess whether natural hazards induce international migration from a … macro perspective. We construct a stylized theoretical gravity model of migration that includes hazards as random shocks. To …
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. While a large body of literature analyzing the impact of natural disasters on migration patterns in the U.S. and other areas … literature and investigate the impact of climate-related disasters on NUTS-2 region-level migration for the period 2000 …-2019. Employing spatial econo-metric methods, we find that experiencing a severe disaster leads to an increase in net out-migration of …
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This paper assesses the consequences of EU enlargement for East West migration. In the theoretical part, we identify … several factors in addition to the reduction of moving costs by which EU membership influences migration. Specifically, EU … increased current migration. Additionally, casual evidence from the 1980s EU South enlargement is examined. Since then no …
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This paper provides a descriptive analysis of the demand for high-skilled workers using a new firm data set, the IZA International Employer Survey 2000. Our results suggest that while workers from EU-countries are mainly complements to domestic high-skilled workers, workers from non-EU countries...
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The labor market "quality" of immigrants is a subject of debate among immigration researchers, and a major public policy concern. However, traditional methods of measuring human capital are particularly difficult to apply to recently arrived immigrants. Many factors that have a negative effect...
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Gavosto, Venturini, Villosio (1999) find that the impact of foreign workers on the wage of natives was positive. Such a result was partly to be expected, and therefore the effect of immigrants on native employment is analyzed here. Two aspects of the unemployment experience are taken into...
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There are few studies on occupational choices in Germany, and the second generation occupational choice and mobility is even less investigated. Such research is important because occupations determine success in the labor market. In a country like Germany occupations also reflect a general...
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There are few studies on occupational choices in Germany, and the second generation occupational choice and mobility is even less investigated. Such research is important because occupations determine success in the labor market. In a country like Germany occupations also reflect a general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272294