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Rainfall and self-selection patterns in Mexico-US migration
Li, Shan - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 11 (2020) 1/22, pp. 1-32
This article studies the role of rainfall in determining the education composition of Mexico-US migration. Emphasizing the relationship between rainfall and migration costs, a revised Roy model indicates that rainfall affects selection on education through not only households' liquidity...
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International migration as occupational mobility
Lillard, Dean R.; Manzoni, Anna - 2012
We investigate whether Germans immigrants to the US work in higher-status occupations than they would have had they remained in Germany. We account for potential bias from selective migration. The probability of migration is identified using life-cycle and cohort variation in economic conditions...
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The "taxing" issue of interprovincial and cross-border migration
Collins, Kirk A. - In: Canadian public policy : a journal for the discussion … 34 (2008) 4, pp. 481-499
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Managing the impact of climate on migration : evidence from Mexico
Chort, Isabelle; De La Rupelle, Maëlys - 2022
While there is a growing literature on the impact of climate and weather-related events on migration, little is known about the mitigating effect of different policies directed to the agricultural sector, or aimed at insuring against environmental disasters. This paper uses state-level data on...
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Migration networks and location decisions : evidence from U.S. mass migration
Stuart, Bryan A.; Taylor, Evan J. - 2019
This paper studies how birth town migration networks affected long-run location decisions during historical U.S. migration episodes. We develop a new method to estimate the strength of migration networks for each receiving and sending location. Our estimates imply that when one randomly chosen...
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Changes in International Immigration and Internal Native Mobility after Covid-19 in the US
Peri, Giovanni; Zaiour, Reem - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
From the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic to late 2021, international immigration flows to the US decreased significantly. We document the timing and the characteristics of these significant changes in flows, their evolution until late 2022 and their geographic and sector distribution. We...
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Explaining gender differences in migrant sorting : evidence from Canada-US migration
Escamilla-Guerrero, David; Lepistö, Miko; Minns, Chris - 2023
Using newly digitized Canada-Vermont border crossing records from the early twentieth century, this paper identifies key factors that may explain differences in how female and male migrants sort by human capital across destinations. Earnings maximization largely explains sorting patterns among...
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The production and stock of college graduates for U.S. States
Winters, John V. - 2015
educated workers are often quite mobile, and there is a concern that public investments in college graduates may not benefit … the state if the college graduates leave the state after finishing their education. This paper examines the relationship … between the production of college graduates from a state and the stock of college graduates residing in the state using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399511
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The production and stock of college graduates for US states
Winters, John V. - 2014
educated workers are often quite mobile and there is a concern that public investments in college graduates may not benefit the … state if the college graduates leave the state after finishing their education. This paper examines the relationship between … the production of college graduates from a state and the stock of college graduates residing in the state using microdata …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010461780
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The Production and Stock of College Graduates for U.S. States
Winters, John V. - 2016
educated workers are often quite mobile, and there is a concern that public investments in college graduates may not benefit … the state if the college graduates leave the state after finishing their education. This paper examines the relationship … between the production of college graduates from a state and the stock of college graduates residing in the state using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013002737