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Geography vs. Institutions at the Village Level

Grimm, Michael; Klasen, Stephan - 2007

of Sulawesi and find technology adoption to play a crucial role. We show that geography through its effects on migration …

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And What About the Family Back Home? International Migration and Happiness

Borraz, Fernando; Pozo, Susan; Rossi, Máximo - 2008

In this study we use data on subjective well being and migration in Cuenca, one of the Ecuador's largest cities. We … 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 …

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Economic Migration, Networks and Human Capital Transferability from the New European Borderlands. A Comparison of Five Eastern European Countries.

Danzer, Alexander M.; Dietz, Barbara - 2008

and Ukraine to investigate the determinants for short term migration and its destination and duration patterns. Special … transferability of human capital made by migrants prior to their stay abroad. We find that many determinants and migration patterns … from the migration literature, e.g. the prevalence of older migrants and the low importance of children in the migration …

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Income Diversification and Poverty in a Growing Agricultural Economy: The Case of Ghana

Lay, Jann; Schüler, Dana - 2008

households increasingly diversify their livelihoods by both increased migration and more local non-farm employment. These … to migration. Low-income households increase their income share in particular from local non-farm activities through more …

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Ethanol Production, Food and Forests

Andrade de Sa, Saraly; Palmer, Charles; Engel, Stefanie - 2010

This paper investigates the direct and indirect impacts of ethanol production on land use, deforestation and food production. A partial equilibrium model of a national economy with two sectors and two regions, one of which includes a residual forest, is developed. It analyses how an exogenous...

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Expenditure Patterns of Migrant Households: Evidence from Moldova

Poppe, Robert - 2010

This paper examines the effect of temporary and permanent migration on household expenditures and on asset … households are more likely to own more goods or assets than non-migrant households. Migration has stronger effects on ownership … in rural areas. Overall, the findings indicate that temporary migration has a stronger effect on household expenditures …

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How to Tackle the Gulf of Aden Buccaneers

Calahorrano, Lena; an de Meulen, Philipp - 2010

The surge of maritime piracy in the Gulf of Aden is often related to lawlessness and poverty in Somalia. We set up a simple model to describe the choice of becoming a pirate in a setting with an industrialized and a developing country which both engage in fishing in the same waters. As a result...

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Panel data analysis of factors of broadband services diffusion in OECD countries: Focus on deployment and migration

Shinohara, S.; Akematsu, Y.; Tsuji, M. - 2011

above hypotheses and the migration process among three services using panel data model, which take care of the endogeneity …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307271

Income convergence, migration and geography: Distribution analysis of regions in Norway

Stokke, Hildegunn; Rattso, Jorn - 2010

respect to the role of migration. Interestingly, migration seems to be unimportant for the convergence process, at odds with …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011332311

Maids and School Teachers: Low Skill Migration and High Skill Labor Supply

Freire, Tiago - 2010

Over the 40 years the pattern of migration has changed significantly with an increase in the share of female migrants … close substitute for household work. This paper analyzes how low skill rural-urban migration in Brazil from 1986 to 2000 … historical patterns of migrations, we are able to build an exogenous migration shock by skill to cities. Using this as an …

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