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Climate anomalies and international migration : a disaggregated analysis for West Africa
Martinez Flores, Fernanda; Milusheva, Sveta; Reichert, … - 2021 - This version: February 2021
West Africa is vulnerable to negative impacts of climate change and a potential channel of adjustment is migration. Using novel geo-referenced and high-frequency data, we investigate the extent to which soil moisture anomalies have an impact on international migration within the region and...
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Sitting in the same boat : subjective well-being and social comparison after an extreme weather event
Fluhrer, Svenja; Schindler, Kati - 2021
How does subjective well-being depend on the fate of others when a covariate shock strikes? In this paper, we address … this question by providing novel evidence on the impact of shock-induced damages experienced by individuals and their …-5 years after the event occurred. The negative shock impact is amplified by observing peers doing economically worse …
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The perils of modelling how migration responds to climate change
Feng, Bo; Partridge, Mark D.; Rembert, Mark - In: Modelling aging and migration effects on spatial labor …, (pp. 53-75). 2018
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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
The influence of tertiary education on the economic development of a region is a topic of special interest and prevalent object of studies and discussions of regional economists. Universities are frequently referred to as 'creative hubs'. Researching universities are generally expected to be one...
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Modelling migration and regional labour markets : an application of the new economic geography model RHOMOLOI
Brandsma, Andries; Kancs, D'Artis; 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 interregional labour migration. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011581448
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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 impact of external migration from rural areas on the labor force in the fields of agriculture, forestry and fisheries in Romania
Oprea, Mihaela-Georgiana; Vlǎdescu, Mihaela-Irma; … - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : realities and …, (pp. 229-235). 2021
In the context of an increase in demand for labor in the European Union's internal market (where there is a regulatory framework allowing free movement of labor), particularly in areas such as agriculture, construction and domestic services, romanians' tendency to emigrate increases with the...
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Impact of climate risk on firms' use of trade credit : international evidence
Islam, Mohammad Nazrul; Wheatley, Clark M. - In: The International trade journal 35 (2021) 1, pp. 40-59
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Is there a fertility paradox in Denmark?
Lauridsen, Jørgen - 2015
Alike most of the Western world, the Danish fertility rate declined throughout the 20th century simultaneous to economic growth. This development, which conflicts with economic intuition, has been denoted the fertility paradox, and several studies have been devoted to resolve it. The present...
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Global food prices, local weather and migration in Sub-Saharan Africa
Ludolph, Lars; Šedová, Barbora - 2021
In this paper, we study the effect of exogenous global crop price changes on migration from agricultural and non-agricultural households in Sub-Saharan Africa. We show that, similar to the effect of positive local weather shocks, the effect of a locally-relevant global crop price increase on...
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