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Inter-regional migration in Romania
Pop-Silaghi, Monica Ioana; Ghatak, Subrata - School of Economics, Kingston University - 2009
internal migration between the separate regions of Romania in the period 1995 - 2005. The different inter-regional migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010941109
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Spanish inter-regional migration
Mulhern, Alan; Watson, John; Ghatak, Subrata - School of Economics, Kingston University - 2005
This paper adapts the traditional model of migration to include human capital, housing prices and a region's infrastructure in order to analyse the determinants of migration in the Spanish regions between 1998-2003. Using the Seemingly Unrelated Regression Equations [SURE] model, results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010949190
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Interprovincial Migration and Inequality During Vietnam's Transition
Phan, Diep N.; Coxhead, Ian - 2007
Vietnam's economic boom during the transition to a market economy has centered on very rapid growth in some sectors and some provinces, yet poverty has diminished across the entire country. With capital investments highly concentrated by province and sector, geographic labor mobility may be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014224799
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Romania and the New Economy of Migration : Costs, Decision, Networks, Development
Silasi, Grigore; Simina, Ovidiu Laurian - 2012
In some earlier studies, as a response to the media debate during the hot summer of 2006, regarding Romania …’s emigration as following the accession to the EU, we were saying that the fear of mass migration from Romania was not justified …. Romania is not only a gateway for the East-West international migration (like Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece for the South …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014164766
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The dynamics of inter-regional migration in Poland
Mulhern, Alan; Ghatak, Subrata; Watson, John - School of Economics, Kingston University - 2004
In this paper, we modify the Harris-Todaro model of migration to incorporate the impact of human capital, housing stock and the availability of publicly provided goods like health care and road provision to analyse the determinants of migration in different regions of the transition economy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010961068
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Inter-regional migration in transition economies: the case of Poland
Ghatak, Subrata; Mulhern, Alan; Watson, John - School of Economics, Kingston University - 2007
The Harris-Todaro model of migration is modified to incorporate the impact of human capital, housing stock and the availability of publicly provided goods like health care and road provision in order to analyse the determinants of migration in different regions of Poland. The Seemingly Unrelated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010942536
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Determinants of Nordic Migration to Sweden
Lundborg, Per - 1989
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Migranten in Berlin: schlechte Jobchancen, geringe Einkommen, hohe Transferabhängigkeit
Brenke, Karl - In: DIW Wochenbericht 75 (2008) 35, pp. 496-507
Der Anteil der Personen mit Migrationshintergrund ist in Berlin nicht höher als in vergleichbaren deutschen Städten. Wegen der schlechten Wirtschaftsentwicklung und der allgemein hohen Unterbeschäftigung in Berlin treten die mit Migration verbundenen ökonomischen und sozialen Phänomene hier...
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On the Origin and Composition of the German East-West Population Gap
Eder, Christoph; Halla, Martin - 2018
The East-West gap in the German population is believed to originate from migrants escaping the socialist regime in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). We use newly collected regional data and the combination of a regression discontinuity design in space with a difference-in-differences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984591
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Migrants and Natives in EU Labour Markets: Mobility and Job-Skill Mismatch Patterns
Jestl, Stefan; Landesmann, Michael; Leitner, Sandra M. - 2015
This paper presents a descriptive account of labour mobility across the EU economies. The focus of the paper is on different patterns between migrants ('foreign born') and natives with regard to mobility, exploring in particular the potential of migrants to 'grease the wheels' (Borjas, 2001) of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012100139