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Migration and climate change in rural Africa
Cattaneo, Cristina; Massetti, Emanuele - 2015
We analyse whether migration is an adaptation that households employ to cope with climate in Ghana and Nigeria. If migration is part of the present adaptation portfolio of households in developing countries, it is reasonable to expect that it will also be an adaptation to future climate change....
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Income convergence, migration and geography : distribution analysis of regions in Norway
Rattsø, Jørn; Stokke, Hildegunn Ekroll - 2010
Empirical evidence about income convergence among regions and countries is inconclusive and it is necessary to clarify the economic and institutional conditions for convergence. We investigate movements in the income distribution among regions in an integrated market with high mobility of labor,...
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Economic opportunities and gender equity : the migration and education decisions of young women from rural China
Xing, Chunbing; Sun, Yan - 2019
of college education. Women outnumbered men in young rural-urban migrants in the early 2000s, but the surplus of young … are the major reasons that women migrate at a younger age. When higher education expansion increased women's chance of …
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The role of China's household registration system in the urban-rural income differential
Boffy-Ramirez, Ernest; Moon, Soojae - 2017
Together with the rapid growth of the Chinese economy, there has been a growing divide in the earnings of urban and rural residents. In this paper we focus on China's household registration system, or "hukou", as a potential source of the earnings gap. Using multiple waves of data from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011732057
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Migration out of poverty : the case of post-war migration in Mozambique
Ibraimo, Maimuna; Egger, Eva-Maria - 2023
the greater Maputo area (capital city). Migrants appear to be positively selected on education, and are, on average, less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013549791
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Urban sustainability through the lens of migration - case study : City of Leskovac, Serbia
Šantić, Danica; Langović, Milica; Đorđević, Dejan Ž. - In: Ekonomske teme 61 (2023) 1, pp. 105-119
Sustainable spatial transformation, urban governance, and the constraints of urban-rural development can be traced through migration. In the Republic of Serbia, after the rapid increase in the number of people living in urban areas due to internal migration, structural changes in settlements...
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Local education spending and migration : evidence from a large redistribution program
Chauvin, Juan Pablo - 2024
This paper studies the effects of changes in local public education budgets on individual schooling attainment and … redistributed public education finance across Brazilian municipalities in the late 1990s, as a source of exogenous variation. Using … a cohort-exposure design, I find that, at the individual level, doubling the program-related public education budget led …
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Data sources on migrants' labour market and education integration in Austria
Huber, Peter; Fink, Marian; Horvath, Gerard Thomas - 2020
As part of a larger research project, we survey existing data sets and research results on immigrants' integration success in Austria focusing on educational and labour market outcomes. We consider different registers as well as survey data available to researchers on a regular basis and compare...
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Migrant networks and destination choice: Evidence from moves across Turkish provinces
Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Duman, Erkan - 2021
This paper estimates effects of birth place migration networks and other location attributes on destination choices of internal migrants conditional on migration. We also study heterogeneity in the role of these factors for migrant types who differ by skill group, age at migration, and reason of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012628461
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Migrant Networks and Destination Choice: Evidence from Moves across Turkish Provinces
Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Duman, Erkan - 2021
This paper estimates effects of birth place migration networks and other location attributes on destination choices of internal migrants conditional on migration. We also study heterogeneity in the role of these factors for migrant types who differ by skill group, age at migration, and reason of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012658256