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This paper examines two issues associated with the impact of migration on household income and poverty. First, existing … studies have typically overlooked a feature of migration that should be taken into account in estimating its impact, namely … the fact that migration changes the size of the household. The 'corrected' impact that does take the change in household …
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This paper examines two issues associated with the impact of migration on household income and poverty. First, existing … studies have typically overlooked a feature of migration that should be taken into account in estimating its impact, namely … the fact that migration changes the size of the household. The ‘corrected’ impact that does take the change in household …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762256
In estimating the impact of migration on income and poverty, existing studies have typically overlooked the fact that … migration changes the size of the household. The ‘corrected’ impact that takes the change in household size into account is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008472133
migration waves of the late 19th and early 20th centuries has left a legacy on the economic development of the counties where … look at the geography of migration across US counties in the 48 continental states. We then link this settlement pattern of … number of factors which may have influenced both the location of migrants at the time of migration, as well as for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084165
developed but hundreds of millions. And yet migration is not "free" (see the case of China). …
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Migration is a phenomenon that reflects economic, social and demographic imbalances across countries and requires a … development impact of migration. It will do so by commenting on three broad questions. First, how and in what ways is migration … important for development? Second, what are the costs and benefits of migration for developing and developed countries? And …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008478971
This study uses a unique natural experiment to test a simple model of international differences in workers’ wages and productivity. Large differences in wages across countries could arise from several sources. These include barriers to trade in outputs, differences in technology, differences...
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We compare the wages of workers inside the United States to the wages of observably identical workers outside the United States—controlling for country of birth, country of education, years of education, work experience, sex, and ruralurban residence. This is made possible by new and uniquely...
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development until countries reach upper-middle income, and only thereafter falls. This note quantifies the shape of the mobility …
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also an adequate distribution of income is influenced by many factors, including migration. This paper aims at highlighting … the effects of migration upon the economic development of EU Member State receiving countries, starting from economic and … social facts indicating a migration phenomenon that is ever increasing. In this regard, it has been thought appropriate to …
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