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Do natural hazards cause international migration?

Gröschl, Jasmin Katrin; Steinwachs, Thomas - 2016

The estimated amount of people affected by natural hazards stands at a staggering number of about 243 million people per year. While not all of the affected move across borders, international migration potentially provides an adaptation mechanism to natural hazards. The aim of this paper is to...

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On the determinants of global bilateral migration flows

Crespo Cuaresma, Jesús; Moser, Mathias; Raggl, Anna - 2013

We present a method aimed at estimating global bilateral migration flows and assessing their determinants. We employ that fact that available net migration figures for a country are (nonlinear) aggregates of migration flows from and to all other countries of the world in order to construct a...

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Geography matters : spatial dimensions of trade, migration and growth

Steinwachs, Thomas - 2019

This volume was prepared by Thomas Steinwachs while he was working at the ifo Center for International Economics. It was completed in September 2018 and accepted as a doctoral dissertation by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich (LMU). It is a collection of four self-contained...

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Cultural change and the migration choice

Lanati, Mauro; Venturini, Alessandra - 2018

Cultural differences play an important role in shaping migration patterns. The conventional proxies for cross country cultural differences - such as common language, ethnicity, genetic traits or religion - implicitly assume that cultural proximity between two countries is constant over time and...

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Determinants and dynamics of forced migration to Europe : evidence from a 3-D model of flows and stocks

Brück, Tilman; Dunker, Kai M.; Ferguson, Neil T. N.; … - 2018

Violent conflict is a well-recognised driver of forced migration but literature does not usually consider the pull factors that might also cause irregular movements. In turn, the decision to leave and of where to go are rarely considered separately. This is in contrast to literature on regular...

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Labour mobility and interprovincial trade in Canada

Aziz, Nusrate; Mahar, Gerry - 2019

data from 1981- 2016 for Canadian provinces. We apply both the gravity and the spatial trade models for estimation using a … and significant determinants for interprovincial trade of Canada. Interprovincial immigration is more influential than … international immigration in explaining interprovincial trade. Interprovincial imports are influenced more by interprovincial and …

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The econometric modeling of social preferences

Conte, Anna; Moffatt, Peter G. - 2010

modelling and estimation ; model evaluation ; individual behaviour ; fairness …

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Determinants of income inequality in South Africa : a Vector Error Correction Model approach

Seabela, Molepa; Kanayo, Ogujiuba; Eggink, Maria - In: Economies : open access journal 12 (2024) 7, pp. 1-17

The issue of income disparity has long plagued South Africa because of the political environment that existed before the country's 1994 democratic transition. Based on the widely used Gini index, which gauges global inequality, the nation routinely has some of the highest rates of income...

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Justice Delayed is Assimilation Denied : Rightwing Terror, Fear and Social Assimilation of Turkish Immigrants in Germany

Deole, Sumit S. - 2018

In 2011, German police accidentally stumbled upon a previously unknown right-wing extremist group called the National Socialist Underground (NSU). Further investigations implicated the group in previously unexplained murders of mostly ethnically Turkish individuals and in other crimes targeting...

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International migration and the distribution of income in New Zealand metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas

Alimi, Omoniyi B.; Maré, David Christopher; Poot, Jacques - 2018

the same time, the encouragement of permanent and temporary immigration has led to the foreign-born accounting for a … immigration, by skill level and length of stay, on the distribution of income in metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas. We apply … immigration is larger than the inequality-reducing changes for the New Zealand-born. The opposite is the case in non …

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