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Job-related welfare entitlements are common in China. Migrants who do not hold urban registration are, in principle, not entitled to job-related welfare even if they are employees in the State sector. The official explanation is that rural-urban migrants are allocated access to farm land in...
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of interregional migration in Great Britain. By exploiting retrospective information on residency we control for late …
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effect among children living in households that do not experience any family out-migration. Our finding underscores the … simultaneous and opposing impacts of household out-migration and remittance receipt on children’s schooling. While the receipt of … effect of household out-migration imposes an economic burden on the remaining household members and reduces their likelihood …
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This paper examines whether family and community migration experience affect the probability of high school graduation … across migration and education decisions as well as within groups of individuals such as the family are explicitly controlled …
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, suggesting that study abroad spells are an important channel to later migration. We investigate heterogeneity in returns and find …
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In this paper we use individual micro data on workers combined with industry and regional data to study the dynamics of the wage differential between skilled and unskilled workers in Italy in the period 1991-1996. Being different to previous empirical studies, our data allow us to explore in a...
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increase in the labor market demand for diverse sets of skills, have all contributed to the emergence of high-skilled migration … as a major issue. High-skilled migration is often discussed in narrow terms of "brain drain/brain gain", when both the … pattern of migration and its effects appear to be much more complex. However, our understanding of the effects of high skilled …
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The labor market "quality" of immigrants is a subject of debate among immigration researchers, and a major public policy concern. However, traditional methods of measuring human capital are particularly difficult to apply to recently arrived immigrants. Many factors that have a negative effect...
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European migration policies are characterised by a fundamental paradox: they are getting tighter and tighter just while …, based on a computable general equilibrium model, we evaluate whether migration to "rigid labour markets" a-la European … migration are, at a GDP gain of 0.2-0.3% at a migration of 1% of the labour force, but that natives in the receiving countries …
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. This paper explores the extent to which migration-related capital flows can explain the movements and magnitudes of current …
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