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We analyse the impacts that infrastructure provision has on long run urban development. The topic is of major importance to policy-makers when deciding whether or not to invest in major infrastructure projects. The analysis helps policy-makers to understand the intended, and potentially...
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This chapter reviews some of the principal contributions addressing three spheres related to migration: theory …, empirical evidence and policy experience, focusing on the more recent literature. The chapter discusses the causes of migration … of these ideas. But, there are major policy areas, touching more or less directly upon migration, where almost no …
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This chapter describes the concept of migration, selected facts about internal migration in developed countries, and … the determinants of migration. In most advanced societies, inter-regional migration is a major mechanism through which … of migration are the factors that affect migrationincluding characteristics both of places and of persons and their …
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Are migrants self-selected and sorted according to their views about what constitutes a fair level of redistribution? A major challenge in answering this question is that fairness concerns and self-interest are intertwined. We present a theoretical framework that allows us to test whether...
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The Tiebout hypothesis suggests that people who migrate from more to less redistributive countries are more negative towards redistribution than non-migrants. However, differences between migrants' and non-migrants' redistributive preferences might also reflect self-interest. We present a model...
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