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Invisible, successful, and divided Vietnamese in Germany since the late 1970s

Bösch, Frank; Su, Phi Hong - 2018

Until the 1970s, only 1000 Vietnamese lived in West and East Germany, most of them international students. West Germany, in particular, had not yet been confronted with non-European refugees. This changed after 1978 with the influx of around 35,000 "boat people" from Viet Nam and other countries...

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Return migration and socioeconomic mobility in MENA: Evidence from labour market panel surveys

Hlasny, Vladimir; AlAzzawi, Shireen - 2018

, 2016) and Tunisia (2014). We link individuals' current outcomes to those in prior years and to their parents' outcomes. We … first isolate the outcomes of interest - income, employment status, household wealth based on both productive and non … in individuals' outcomes across years and generations are made functions of pre-existing socioeconomic status …

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Climate change, rice production, and migration in Vietnamese households

Baronchelli, Adelaide; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2018

This paper analyses the relationship between climate and migration in rural households in Viet Nam. We propose an instrumental variable approach that controls for the potential endogeneity between crop production and migration using monthly minimum temperatures in the growing season as an...

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Trade liberalization and the hukou system of the People's Republic of China: How migration frictions can amplify the unequal gains from trade

Zi, Yuan - 2018

The emergence of the People's Republic of China (PRC) as a great economic power has stimulated an epochal shift in patterns of world trade, accompanied by a remarkable level of internal migration within the country. Hundreds of millions of Chinese workers have moved from inland areas to coastal...

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Managing migration through conflicting policies : an option-theory perspective

Moretto, Michele; Vergalli, Sergio - 2009

Recent European legislation on immigration has revealed a particular paradox on migration policies. On the one hand, the trend of recent legislation points to the increasing closure of frontiers (OECD 1999, 2001,2004), trying to limit the immigrants' stock. On the other hand, there is an...

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Migration's income and poverty impact has been underestimated

Schiff, Maurice - 2006

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...

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The location of immigrants at retirement: stay/return or 'va-et-vient'

Coulon, Augustin de; Wolff, François-Charles - 2006

In this paper, we investigate the location choice of immigrants when retiring. In a context where labour considerations no longer matter, the location decisions are expected to depend not only on a comparison of standard-of-living between the origin and host countries, but should also be...

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Childcare, eldercare, and labor force participation of married women in urban China: 1982 - 2000

Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Connelly, Rachel; Lan, Chen; … - 2009

We employ data from the three most recent Chinese population censuses to consider married, urban women's labor force participation decisions in the context of their families and their residential locations. We are particularly interested in how the presence in the household of preschool and...

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The impact of international migration and remittances on the labor-supply behavior of those left behind: evidence from Egypt

Binzel, Christine; Assaad, Ragui - 2009

We analyze in this paper the impact of male-dominated migration and remittance income on the participation and hours worked decisions of adults left behind, including the hours spent by women in subsistence and domestic work. We differentiate between a 'pure' migration (M) effect and the joint...

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Long-term effects of forced migration

Sarvimäki, Matti; Uusitalo, Roope; Jäntti, Markus - 2009

We study the long-term effects of human displacement using individual-level panel data on forced migrants and comparable non-migrants. After World War II, Finland ceded a tenth of its territory to the Soviet Union and resettled the entire population living in these areas in the remaining parts...

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