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And What About the Family Back Home? International Migration and Happiness
Borraz, Fernando; Pozo, Susan; Rossi, Máximo - 2008
examine the impact of migration on the happiness of the family left behind. We use the propensity score matching estimator to … take into account the endogeneity of migration. Our results indicate that migration reduces the happiness of those left … behind. We also find that the monetary inflows (remittances) that accompany migration do not increase happiness levels among …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301430
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Can Health Foreign Assistance Break the Medical Brain Drain?
Moullan, Yasser - 2009
This paper analyses the impact of health foreign assistance on physicians' brain drain. We use the database from Bhargava and Docquier (2008) to explain physicians' brain drain and health foreign assistance from 1995 to 2003 using a bilateral gravity equation model. In the first time, we propose...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301470
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Is Posner right? An empirical test of the Posner argument for transferring health spending from old women to old men
Wunder, Christoph; Schwarze, Johannes - 2010
Posner (1995) proposes the redistribution of health spending from old women to old men to equalize life expectancy. His argument is based on the assumption that women's utility is higher if they are married. Using life satisfaction data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273633
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Social Jealousy and Stigma: Negative Externalities of Social Assistance Payments in Germany
Kassenböhmer, Sonja C.; Haisken-DeNew, John P. - 2010
This paper examines the role of social assistance payments (SAP or Sozialhilfe) in determining levels of life satisfaction in Germany using the SOEP 1995-2004. We find strong evidence that individuals in Germany are negatively influenced by increased SAP payments controlling for income, whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274418
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Natural Hazard Risk and Life Satisfaction - Empirical Evidence for U.S. Hurricanes
Eurich, Marina; Berlemann, Michael - 2020
The ongoing process of climate change goes along with an increase in the frequency and severity of various sorts of natural disasters. While the existing literature has almost exclusively focused on studying the direct effects resulting from different types of disasters, the effect of changing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012287912
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Religiosity as a determinant of happiness
Opfinger, Matthias; Gundlach, Erich - 2011
We find a U-shaped relation between happiness and religiosity in cross-country panel data after controlling for income … levels. At a given level of income, the same level of happiness can be reached with high and low levels of religiosity, but … not with intermediate levels. A rise in income causes an increase in happiness along with a decline of religiosity. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010305653
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The Spread of Anti-Trafficking Policies - Evidence from a New Index
Cho, Seo-Young; Dreher, Axel; Neumayer, Eric - 2011
We analyze the spread of policies dealing with international trafficking in human beings. Arguing that countries are unlikely to make independent choices, we identify pressure, externalities and learning or emulation as plausible diffusion mechanisms for spatial dependence in anti-trafficking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010305621
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Emigration and Wages: The EU Enlargement Experiment
Elsner, Benjamin - 2011
The enlargement of the European Union in 2004 caused a large migration wave from Central Europe to Ireland and the UK. This paper addresses the question whether such an emigration wave changes the wage distribution in the source country. In a theoretical model of a labor market I show that some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010305951
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Are the Chinese in Africa More Innovative than the Africans? Comparing Chinese and Nigerian Entrepreneurial Migrants' Cultures of Innovation
Kohnert, Dirk - 2010
The remarkable influx of Chinese migrant entrepreneurs in West Africa has been met with growing resistance from established African entrepreneurs. Whether the Chinese have a competitive edge over Africans because of distinctive sociocultural traits or whether the Chineseʹs supposed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335584
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Modelling Migration and Regional Labour Markets: An Application of the New Economic Geography Model RHOMOLO
Kancs, d'Artis; Brandsma, Andries; Persyn, Damiaan - 2013
The present paper describes the modelling of regional labour markets in the newly developed dynamic spatial general equilibrium model RHOMOLO, where the labour market equilibrium is determined by firms' labour demand, a wage-curve determining unemployment, and inter-regional labour migration....
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