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, migration, ethnicity, country of birth and place of residence in Scotland. We do this using longitudinal census data linking …
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' demographic prospects. We investigate the determinants of migration balances of German cities focusing on mobility of workers and … the significance of jobs and amenities. With investigating cities' migration balances we choose a rather direct measure of … persistent disparities in labour market performance and amenities across cities and the high internal migration - in particular …
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multiple provinces, comparing the province of maximum predicted earnings to the province of residence and assessing the … predicted maximum earnings in divisions other than their home division that exceeded their predicted home division earnings by … more than 20%. In contrast, 45% of Chinese urban workers in 1988 predicted maximum earnings in provinces outside their home …
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with a monopolistic competition framework a la Dixit-Stiglitz considering heterogeneous firms with different productivity … run equilibrium only those firms with survive in the market which have a sufficiently high productivity level or can … compensate their lower productivity level by wage cost advantages. We show that the increase of productivity might be explained …
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This paper is an attempt to explain variations across EU regions in productivity growth and takes into consideration … the important structure of the age-productivity relation of Human Capital. The study is fundamentally based on the theory … of Fingleton's model which analyses the spatial process of productivity growth on the on the foundations of the theory of …
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This paper examines the determinants of internal migration in a context where wages tend to be rather inflexible at a … employment chances. By estimating a migration model for the average skill level of gross labor flows between 27 German regions …
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Career progression is often associated with migration and/or industry change, but the relationship between the two, and … their effect on the earnings and career satisfaction of recent graduates are not well understood. We analyse the … relationship between migration and inter-industry mobility using longitudinal microdata on 5,000 recent UK graduates who finished …
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irregular migrants are self-selected. Using unique datasets from the International Organization for Migration and Gallup World …
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Numerous studies have found that school proximity and parents' educational background affect individuals' educational attainment, while less evidence has been presented on the role of these factors in the choice of university field of study. Especially, in a geographically vast and scarcely...
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Income levels are higher in cities. The evidence for the income gap between urban and rural areas is overwhelming, but the agglomeration effect is hard to identify. Recent advances make use of individual level data to separate out sorting and instrumentation to handle the endogeneity of...
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