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Understanding neighbourhood effects: Selection bias and residential mobility

Bergström, Lina; Ham, Maarten van - 2010

The number of studies investigating neighbourhood effects has increased rapidly over the last two decades. Although many of these studies claim to have found evidence for neighbourhood effects, most 'evidence' is likely the result of reversed causality. The main challenge in modelling...

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Between Hope and Despair: Egypt's Revolution and Migration Intentions

Giesing, Yvonne; Hassan, Reem - 2021

We study the effect of the 2011 Egyptian revolution and its aftermath on migration intentions of the Egyptian youth. We … Database of the Egyptian Revolution Wikithawra and combine it with data on migration intentions from the Harmonized Survey of … Young People in Egypt (HSYPE). Difference-in-difference estimations show that the revolution significantly decreased the …

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Out of Africa : what drives the pressure to emigrate?

Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Groenewold, George; Schoorl, … - 2004

' for four distinctly different African countries (Morocco, Egypt, Senegal and Ghana). In general, great expectations about … potential migrants are only present in Ghana and Egypt. The differences in intentions by age and sex are also quite noteworthy … Ghana and Egypt. The network effects of potential migrants turn out to be less important than one might expect from actual …

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Between hope and despair : Egypt's revolution and migration intentions

Giesing, Yvonne; Hassan, Reem - 2021

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Remittances and their effect on emigration intentions in Egypt, Morocco and Turkey

Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Groenewold, George; Fokkema, Tineke - 2005

What determines remittances – altruism or enlightened self-interest - and do remittances trigger additional migration …? These two questions are examined empirically in Egypt, Turkey and Morocco for households with family members living abroad …, receipt of remittances may contribute to new flows of migration, in particular in the case of Morocco. …

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Poverty in the Russian Federation

Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; van Praag, Bernard M. S. - 2001

This paper is intended to shed light on the extent of poverty in the Russian Federation. We present estimates of poverty lines and poverty ratios derived from subjective questions used in a during data collection for a large household panel (RUSSET). We estimate poverty using a subjective...

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Subjective poverty and reference-dependence: Income over time, aspirations and reference groups

Castilla, Carolina - 2010

How a person assesses the wellbeing derived from income is often determined as much by its contrast with a reference point as by the level of income itself. In this paper, I use a household survey from Mexico to examine how subjective poverty assessments not only depend on the absolute level of...

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Trends in subjective income poverty rates in the European Union

Želinský, Tomáš; Mysíková, Martina; Garner, Thesia I. - 2021

When developing anti-poverty policies, policy makers need accurate data on the prevalence of poverty. In this paper, we focus on subjective poverty, a concept which has been largely neglected in literature, yet remains a conceptually appealing way to define poverty. The primary goal of this...

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Trends in subjective income poverty rates in the European Union

Želinský, Tomás; Mysíková, Martina; Garner, Thesia I. - 2021

When developing anti-poverty policies, policymakers need accurate data on the prevalence of poverty. In this paper, we focus on subjective poverty, a concept which has been largely neglected in the literature, though it remains a conceptually appealing way to define poverty. The primary goal of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012624839

Measured as poor versus feeling poor: Comparing objective and subjective poverty rates in South Africa

Posel, Dorrit; Rogan, Michael - 2014

In this paper, we compare subjective and money-metric measures of poverty in South Africa using data collected in the 2008/09 Living Conditions Survey. In addition to collecting detailed information on expenditure, the survey asked respondents to provide an assessment of the economic status of...

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