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Much of the current German debate about the integration of immigrants overlooks the fact that Germany is not solely a country of immigration, but also - and to a substantial degree - a country of emigration. One of the largest groups of emigrants is made up of Germans themselves. The percentage...
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as on income mobility. These findings are obviously even more important in cross-national comparative analyses if the …
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We provide a concise introduction to a household-panel data infrastructure that provides the international research community with longitudinal data of private households in Germany since 1984: the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). We demonstrate the comparative strength of the SOEP data in...
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very high attrition rates, especially in developing countries where rural-urban migration is prevalent. In this paper, we … tracking reveals a very high rate of out-migration (38.8%) and household break-ups, as three quarters of recontacted households … pays en développement où la migration vers les villes est importante. Dans cet article, nous discutons les implications des …
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We report a small-sample, preliminary evaluation of the economic impact of temporary overseas work by Haitian agricultural workers. This work occurs in the United States in the context of a pilot program designed as a form of post-disaster development assistance to Haiti. We find that the...
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migration. Paradoxically, absconding domestic workers who have been financially abused are more likely to want to return and …
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Many governments seek to reduce emigration from low-income countries by encouraging economic development there. A large literature, however, observes that average emigration rates are higher in countries with sustained increases in GDP per capita than in either chronically poor countries or...
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suggest something quite different: that over the course of a "mobility transition", emigration generally rises with economic … development until countries reach upper-middle income, and only thereafter falls. This note quantifies the shape of the mobility … explain the mobility transition and numerous tests of its existence and characteristics in both macro- and micro-level data …
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A recent surge in child migration to the U.S. from Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala has occurred in the context of … and child migration to the United States using novel, individual-level, anonymized data on all 178,825 U.S. apprehensions … poverty. Due to diffusion of migration experience and assistance through social networks, violence can cause waves of …
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suggest something quite different: that over the course of a "mobility transition", emigration generally rises with economic … development until countries reach upper-middle income, and only thereafter falls. This note quantifies the shape of the mobility … explain the mobility transition and numerous tests of its existence and characteristics in both macro- and micro-level data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010423766