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invented anew by transnational migration networks in a globalized world. There is no evidence of the supposed superiority of … adaptés et inventés de nouveau par les réseaux de la migration transnationale dans un monde globalisé. Il n'y a aucune preuve …
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respect to the role of migration. Interestingly, migration seems to be unimportant for the convergence process, at odds with …
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This study analyses the impact of cultural composition on regional attractiveness from the perspective of migrant sorting behaviour. We use an attitudinal survey to quantify cultural distances between natives and immigrants in the area concerned, and estimate the migrants' varying preferences...
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the causal effect of education on the inter-regional migration. First we consider the impact of the reform on the …In the 1990s polytechnic education reform took place in Finland, which gradually expanded higher education to all … Finnish regions; the polytechnics constituted a new non-university sector in higher education. This reform is used to study …
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High levels of net migration to the UK have contributed to growing cultural diversity, and researchers are turning … diversity and co-ethnic networks play? And do cities amplify or dampen these channels? I explore using a rich dataset of over 6 …
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, models that include externalities or selective migration suggest that regional differences might well increase due to … interregional migration of workers. We investigate the impact of labour mobility on regional disparities in Germany between 1995 and … 2005. Considering the impact of migration as well as commuting, effects on regional wages and unemployment are estimated …
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This paper assesses regional inequality in contemporary urban China by predicting earningss for individual workers in multiple provinces, comparing the province of maximum predicted earnings to the province of residence and assessing the predicted gains from relocation. The paper performs the...
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coincided with the greatest waves of European migration (1880, 1910) in order to uncover the settlement patterns of migrants of … determined both the attractiveness of different US counties at the time of migration, as well as current levels of development … difference for long-term economic development whatsoever. This holds for the first and second wave of migration. Hence being …
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of lower spatial mobility. Firstly, we find that membership in locally bounded social networks reduces regional mobility …. Secondly, we show that native East Germans are more invested in this type of social networks than West Germans. Thirdly, after …
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Putnam (1995)'s seminal work was one of the first to describe the decline of social capital in the US after the 1960s, a period that saw a large increase in the flow of immigrants into the US. Using the Volunteer Supplement of the September Sample of the Current Population Survey (CPS) between...
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