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Tackling Poverty-migration Linkages: Evidence from Ghana and Egypt
Sabates-Wheeler, Rachel; Sabates, Ricardo; Castaldo, Adriana - In: Social Indicators Research 87 (2008) 2, pp. 307-328
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009400781
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Heterogeneity in the Egyptian informal labour market: choice or obligation?
Harati, Rawaa - HAL - 2013
This paper provides historical and empirical arguments that can explain the development of the Egyptian informal sector. After recalling the various approaches proposed in the literatures, it identifies the configuration that overrides the Egyptian labor market by allowing for the heterogeneity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011026091
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Heterogeneity in the Egyptian informal labour market: choice or obligation?.
Harati, Rawaa - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2013
This paper provides historical and empirical arguments that can explain the development of the Egyptian informal sector. After recalling the various approaches proposed in the literatures, it identifies the configuration that overrides the Egyptian labor market by allowing for the heterogeneity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010640971
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Heterogeneity in the Egyptian informal labour market : choice or obligation?
Harati, Rawaa - In: Revue d'économie politique 123 (2013) 4, pp. 623-639
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010192725
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The gender wage gap in Egypt : public versus private sector
Ghignoni, Emanuela; Pastore, Francesco - In: International journal of manpower 44 (2023) 8, pp. 1511-1534
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014468376
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Mobility and the Return to Education: Testing a Roy Model with Multiple Markets
Dahl, Gordon B. - University of Rochester - Center for Economic Research … - 2002
Self-selected migration presents one potential explanation for why observed returns to a college education in local … U.S., the relative state-to-state migration flows of college- versus high school-educated individuals respond strongly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005808120
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Understanding Neighbourhood Effects: Selection Bias and Residential Mobility
Bergström, Lina; van Ham, Maarten - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
The number of studies investigating neighbourhood effects has increased rapidly over the last two decades. Although many of these studies claim to have found evidence for neighbourhood effects, most 'evidence' is likely the result of reversed causality. The main challenge in modelling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008680890
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Understanding neighbourhood effects: Selection bias and residential mobility
Bergström, Lina; Ham, Maarten van - 2010
The number of studies investigating neighbourhood effects has increased rapidly over the last two decades. Although many of these studies claim to have found evidence for neighbourhood effects, most 'evidence' is likely the result of reversed causality. The main challenge in modelling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274593
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Unemployment and Migration: Does Moving Help?
Pekkala, Sari - Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus (VATT), Government … - 2002
This paper studies the migration behaviour of the unemployed in Finland, and analyses the causal effect of moving on …-employability. Hence, migration alone may not be a very effective mechanism for alleviating individual unemployment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005545962
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Unemployment, selective employment measures and inter-regional mobility of labour
Hämäläinen, Kari - In: Papers in Regional Science 81 (2002) 4, pp. 423-441
This article examines the impact of selective employment measures on the subsequent migration behaviour of the … participants. We hypothesise that employment measures targeted at high unemployment regions may discourage out-migration of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005382054