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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,...

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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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Refugees' self-selection into Europe : who migrates where?

Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Poutvaara, Panu - 2019

About 1.4 million refugees and irregular migrants arrived in Europe in 2015 and 2016. We model how refugees and … Polls, we provide the first large-scale evidence on reasons to emigrate, and the self-selection and sorting of refugees and … irregular migrants for multiple origin and destination countries. Refugees and female irregular migrants are positively self …

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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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Jobs or amenities : what determines the migration balances of cities?

Buch, Tanja; Hamann, Silke; Niebuhr, Annekatrin; … - 2012

between East and West Germany - predestine the country for an analysis of the determinants of urban migration balances …. Moreover, massive demographic changes are already visible in several regions, notably in East Germany, and affect the economic … instrument variable estimation are applied. Our results suggest that different groups of factors influence the urban net …

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Unequal pay or unequal employment? : what drives the self-selection of internal migrants in Germany?

Arntz, Melanie; Gregory, Terry; Lehmer, Florian - 2011 - Preliminary Version: March 3, 2011

its in-migrants. A higher employment inequality in Eastern as compared to Western Germany may, thus, be the missing link …

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The impact of Czech commuters on the German labour market

Moritz, Michael - 2010

In the process of European integration, regions close to a border are especially affected by labour market liberalisation. Using data from the IAB employment subsample (IABS) and the employment register (BeH) for the period before and after the opening of the border (1980-2001) I shed light on...

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European migration, national origin and long-term economic development in the US

Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés; Berlepsch, Viola von - 2013

Have Irish, German or Italian settlers arriving in the US at the turn of the 20th century left an institutional trace which determines economic development differences to this day? Does the national origin of migrants matter for long-term development? This paper explores whether the distinct...

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Provincial valuations of human capital in urban China, inter-provincial inequality and the implicit value of a Guangdong hukou

Zax, Jeffrey S. - 2016

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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A new career in a new town : job search methods and regional mobility of unemployed workers

Morescalchi, Andrea - 2016

This paper investigates the spatial connotations of job search methods of unemployed people, and in particular whether search methods lead to local vis-à-vis non-local jobs. The data set used is the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), a longitudinal survey collecting yearly interviews for...

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