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Migration and Informal Insurance
Meghir, Costas - 2019
Do new migration opportunities for rural households change the nature and extent of informal risk sharing? We … experimentally document that randomly offering poor rural households subsidies to migrate leads to a 40% improvement in risk sharing … in their villages. We explain this finding using a model of endogenous migration and risk sharing. When migration is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866354
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Migration and Informal Insurance
Meghir, Costas - 2019
Do new migration opportunities for rural households change the nature and extent of informal risk sharing? We … experimentally document that randomly offering poor rural households subsidies to migrate leads to a 40% improvement in risk sharing … in their villages. We explain this finding using a model of endogenous migration and risk sharing. When migration is risky …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866724
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Migration, remittances and competition in international labour market
Chowdhury, Mehdi M. (contributor) - 2009
Remittances are considered as an important component of GDP in many developing countries. In order to increase … country with higher labour endowment. -- International Migration ; Remittances ; Migration Tax ; Oligopolistic Competition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003867815
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Remittances, Migrants' Education and Immigration Policy : Theory and Evidence from Bilateral Data
Docquier, Frédéric - 2011
We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using … original bilateral remittance data. At a theoretical level we lay out a model of remittances interacting migrants' human … between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118275
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Are ghettos good or bad? : evidence from US internal migration
Zhang, Junfu; Liang, Zheng - 2014
It is difficult to determine whether ghettos are good or bad, partly because racial segregation may have some effects that are unobservable. To overcome this challenge, we present a migration choice model that allows for estimating the overall effects of racial segregation. The key idea...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010341251
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Migration Dynamics
Vergalli, Sergio; Moretto, Michele - 2005
This paper tries to explain why most migration flows show some observable jumps in their processes, a phenomenon that seems to be sympathetic with the characteristic of irreversibility of migration. We present a real option model where the choice to migrate depends on both the differential wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014062152
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Compliance with the institutional wage in dualistic models
Martins, Ana Paula - 2011
This research extends simple two-sector models in order to inquire the impact of the extent of coverage or enforcement of minimum wage legislation in one of the sectors on the equilibrium outcome. Two versions of institutional wage avoidance are presented. They may be seen as representing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524841
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Compliance with the institutional wage in dualistic models
Martins, Ana Paula - 2011
This research extends simple two-sector models in order to inquire the impact of the extent of coverage or enforcement of minimum wage legislation in one of the sectors on the equilibrium outcome. Two versions of institutional wage avoidance are presented. They may be seen as representing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524877
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Agglomeration, pollution, and migration : a substantial link, and policy design
Stark, Oded; Pang, Yu; Fan, Chengze Simon - 2022
We study a developing countries setting in which agglomeration efficiency of urban production attracts rural-to-urban migration, whereas urban pollution deters rural-to-urban migration. By means of a general equilibrium model we study the formation of policies aimed at striking a socially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013459470
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Migration Decisions Under Ambiguity : Migration Distance Effects Revisited
Lim, Sung Soo - 2020
distance effect in the spirit of Knightian distinction between risk and uncertainty. To this end, this study attempts to … construct estimates of the risk premium migrants are willing to pay to avoid the risk associated with migration distance. The … results show that the magnitude of the distance effect is not rationalized by risk aversion in the Arrow-Pratt sense. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012853502