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Graduate migration in Italy : lifestyle or necessity? : ERSA 2011 - conference paper
Marinelli, Elisabetta - 2011
This paper studies the locational choice of Italian mobile graduates, tackling simultaneously three aspects. First it … degree. Results indicate that social networks are a much stronger determinant of the destination of graduates than regional … characteristics, that to apply one's knowledge it is necessary to move to highly innovative areas, and that graduates from different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011528926
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Evading terror? : terror attacks and internal migration in Israel
Borstel, Johanna von; Gobien, Tom; Roth, Duncan - 2014 - Preliminary draft
This paper empirically analyses the relationship between terror incidents and internal migration in Israel. Using a newly created database of region-to-region migration flows for the years 1998-2012, the empirical model regresses the annual flow of migrants from an origin subdistrict to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011487838
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Expansion of undergraduate courses positions impacting the migration of students in Brazil : an analysis with the Demographic Census of 2010
Barufi, Ana Maria Bonomi - 2013
This paper advances in the literature on the migration of college students, which is not very large in Brazil evaluating in to what extent does the uprising in the offer of undergraduate courses in a certain municipality affect the migratory net balance (over the municipality young population)....
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Income convergence, migration and geography : distribution analysis of regions in Norway
Rattsø, Jørn; Stokke, Hildegunn Ekroll - 2010
Empirical evidence about income convergence among regions and countries is inconclusive and it is necessary to clarify the economic and institutional conditions for convergence. We investigate movements in the income distribution among regions in an integrated market with high mobility of labor,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012653742
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The effect of education on migration : evidence from school reform
Böckerman, Petri; Haapanen, Mika - 2010 - Preliminary first draft
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 the causal effect of education on the inter-regional...
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Determinants of internal migration in Norway
McArthur, David Philip; Thorsen, Inge - 2010
This paper uses panel data on migration flows between municipalities in Norway from 2000-2008. The relatively new method of fixed effects vector decomposition (fevd) is used to estimate parameters for time-invariant spatial structure variables as well as for labour market factors such as...
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Migration and inter-industry mobility of UK graduates : effect on earnings and career satisfaction
Abreu, Maria; Faggian, Alessandra; McCann, Philip - 2011
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 … lead graduates to both change their location and/or industry, and earn a higher or lower salary, by estimating a treatment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011555063
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Brain drain or brain gain? : graduate student migration in old industrial regions : analysis of the Central Lower Rhine Area, Germany
Jaeger, Angelika; Kreutzer, Fabian - 2012
direction of regional economic development. Especially the large number of highly-educated graduates is of eminent importance in … terms of regional competitive advantages. If graduates remain in the university's region, they form and enrich a highly … this article is to analyse the migration of graduates in the Central Lower Rhine Area by assessing the regional 'brain flow …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011509201
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Internal migration and EU regional policy transfer payments : a panel data analysis for 28 EU member countries
Schmidt, Peter - 2016
This paper analyses the effects of EU regional policy transfer payments on net migration flows among the EU-28 countries. The hypothesis is tested that EU transfer payments do hamper internal migration across the EU. On the one hand, this is done by reestimating the results found by Egger,...
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Provincial international migration distribution in Spain : which factors are behind?
Villaverde, José; Maza, Adolfo; Hierro, María - 2011
International migration issues are at the forefront of the political debate in the European Union (EU). Some reasons justify the increasing relevance of this topic, being the unprecedented scale of international migration flows, especially in countries such as Spain, the most prominent. In fact,...
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