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Understanding the effects of homeownership and regional unemployment levels on migration during the economic crisis in Spain

Palomares-Linares, Isabel; Ham, Maarten van - 2016

The Spanish labour market is characterised by high levels of unemployment, which have increased during the global economic crisis. Spain is also a country which is characterised by a very high percentage of homeownership, with more than 83% of households being owner-occupiers. Both regional...

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Optimal spatial taxation : are big cities too small?

Eeckhout, Jan; Guner, Nezih - 2015

We analyze the role of optimal income taxation across different local labor markets. Should labor in large cities be …

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Economic liberalisation and the mobility of minority groups : evidence from Māori in New Zealand

Sin, Isabelle; Stillman, Steven - 2015

Between 1984 and 2003, New Zealand undertook comprehensive market-oriented economic reforms. In this paper, we use Census data to examine how the internal mobility of Māori compares to that of Europeans in New Zealand in the period after these reforms. It is often suggested that Māori are less...

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What drags and drives mobility : explaining Canada’s aggregate migration patterns

Amirault, David; De Munnik, Daniel; Miller, Sarah - 2012

Using census data at the economic region level from 1991 to 2006 and a gravity model framework, this paper examines the factors that influence migration within Canada. Results from both Poisson pseudo-maximum likelihood and negative binominal regression models suggest that provincial borders are...

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Why are educated and risk-loving persons more mobile across regions?

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; … - 2012

Why are better educated and more risk-friendly persons more mobile across regions? To answer this question, we use micro data on internal migrants from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 2000-2006 and merge this information with a unique proxy for region-pair-specific cultural distances...

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Economic liberalisation and the mobility of minority groups: evidence from Māori in New Zealand

Sin, Isabelle; Stillman, Steven - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 5 (2016) 4, pp. 1-18

Between 1984 and 1993, New Zealand undertook comprehensive market-oriented economic reforms. In this paper, we use census data to examine how the internal mobility of Māori compares to that of Europeans in New Zealand in the period after these reforms. It is often suggested that Māori are less...

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Employment status, endogenous regional mobility, and spatial dependencies in labor markets

Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - 2002

This paper investigates spatial correlation in the matching process of vacant jobs and job seekers. The importance of the interactions of regional labor markets in West Germany is highlighted in several dimensions. We test for spatial autocorrelation in regional hires, unemployment and vacancy...

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Circular migration : why resticting labor mobility can be counterproductive

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2014

In the popular immigration narrative, migrants leave one country and establish themselves permanently in another, creating a "brain drain" in the sending country. In reality, migration is typically temporary: Workers migrate, find employment, and then return home or move on, often multiple...

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Self-selection in migration and returns to unobservable skills

Dostie, Benoît (contributor); … - 2006

migrate. We build a model in which individuals sort, in part, on potential earnings - where earnings across different …-specific characteristics (particularly earnings differentials) on physician location decisions. We find, among other things, that high …-selection ; earnings ; longitudinal data ; productivity …

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Internal Migration and Life Satisfaction : Well-Being Effects of Moving as a Young Adult

Switek, Malgorzata - 2012

Migration typically leads to higher income, but its association with life satisfaction remains unclear. Is migration … accompanied by an increase in life satisfaction? If it is, is the increase in income responsible or are other life domains driving … increase in income relative to non-migrants is found for this group. For work migrants, although their income increases …

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