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Are Ghettos Good or Bad? Evidence from U.S. Internal Migration

Zhang, Junfu; Zheng, Liang - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

It is difficult to determine whether ghettos are good or bad, partly because racial segregation may have some effects that are unobservable. To overcome this challenge, we present a migration choice model that allows for estimating the overall effects of racial segregation. The key idea...

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Migration in Vietnam : New Evidence from Recent Surveys

Coxhead, Ian - 2016

migration is higher for young people and those with post-secondary education. Migrants are more likely to be from households … — those present in the household in 2010, but who have moved away by 2012. This yields much tighter results. For education … below upper secondary school, the evidence on positive selection by education is much stronger. However, the ethnic minority …

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The Role of China's Household Registration System in the Urban-Rural Income Differential

Boffy-Ramirez, Ernest - 2017

Together with the rapid growth of the Chinese economy, there has been a growing divide in the earnings of urban and rural residents. In this paper we focus on China's household registration system, or "hukou", as a potential source of the earnings gap. Using multiple waves of data from the...

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Determinants of Internal Migration in Mexico at an Aggregated and a Disaggregated Level

Chávez-Juárez, Florian; Wanner, Philippe - 2012

This study analyses internal migration in Mexico from 2000 to 2005 using econometric models in order to find the determinants of migration at an aggregated level. The study is performed for several subpopulations, which allows understanding the determinants of migration at a deeper level....

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China’s 'New Generation' Rural-Urban Migrants : Migration Motivation and Migration Patterns

Hu, Xiaochu - 2012

The majority of China’s roughly 145 million rural-urban migrants were born after 1980, making this population the “new generation” of internal migrant workers. Having been directly influenced by China’s rapid economic growth and recent socio-demographic policy changes, this cohort of...

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Palestinian Population, Movement and Statistics

Shalabi, Yaser - 2011

This paper assumes that there is lack of accurate estimates of the Palestinian population and their movement around the world, including the number of refugees, especially unregistered ones. Even the current statistics and figures don’t indicate socio-economic conditions of refugees in host...

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Interregional Migration in Germany : Characteristics and Effects for Regions and Migrants

Smolny, Werner; Peukert, Christian - 2011

German unification and the subsequent breakdown of economic activity in East Germany initiated enormous migration flows from East to West Germany. People from East Germany moved towards West Germany, where wages are higher and employment opportunities are more favourable. Our paper takes a...

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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...

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Migration and Health Outcomes of Left-Behind Elderly in Rural China

Tse, Chun-Wing - 2014

This paper examines whether migration of adult children adversely affects the health of the left-behind elderly in rural China. Establishing causal effect is complicated by the fact that there may be unobserved factors influencing both child migration and health of the elderly. I address this...

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Fertility and Internal Migration

Liao, Pei-Ju; Wang, Ping; Wang, Yin-Chi; Yip, Chong - 2020

While there is a renewed literature connecting internal migration to various issues related to structural transformation such as urban labor and housing markets, the relationship between internal migration and demographic transition is much under-studied despite its importance in the process of...

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