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Demographic determinants of regional development in Eastern Poland

Bugowski, Łukasz Karol - In: Economic and Environmental Studies (E&ES) 19 (2019) 2, pp. 163-183

Research Background: Demography affects human capital, which today is one of the most important factors of regional development. Demographic factors create possibilities or limit the expansion of the knowledge and skills and condition socio-economic activity. In other words, demography can...

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The role of remittances in financing the current account deficit: The case of Serbia

Čakajac, Božidar; Janković, Nenad; Luković, Stevan - In: Naše gospodarstvo / Our Economy 69 (2023) 3, pp. 35-44

Migrations of the resident population in Serbia, with the Western European countries as the main destination, have …

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Wohnstandortmobilität im gesellschaftlichen und demographischen Wandel: Einführung

Zakrzewski, Philipp; Schmitz-Veltin, Ansgar - In: Schneller, öfter, weiter? Perspektiven der …, (pp. 72-78). 2011

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American education in the age of mass migrations 1870 - 1930

Murtin, Fabrice; Viarengo, Martina - 2009

account the impact of mass migrations on the US educational level. We reconstruct the foreign-born US population by age and by … the first national estimates of average schooling in 1940. We show that mass migrations have had a significant but modest …

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Gender Discrimination in Property Rights

Casari, Marco; Lisciandra, Maurizio - 2014

Starting from the medieval period, women in the Italian Alps experienced a progressive erosion in property rights over the commons. We collected documents about the evolution of inheritance regulations on collective land issued by hundreds of peasant communities over a period of six centuries...

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How do strong social ties shape youth migration trajectories (using data from the Russian on-line social network www.vk.com)

Zamyatina, Nadezhda; Yashunsky, Alexey - 2013

migrations between cities shows us that the force of strong ties is sometimes greater than the force of a distance or of the … agglomeration effect: some very distant and small cities are tied closely by migrations flows. We tend to explain the high level of … migrations flows moved to the Russian capital and to the region centers. Yet, excluding such flows, we can see the concentration …

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Forming of the new ethnic image of St.Petersburg

Krasnov, Anton; Zhitin, Dmitriy - 2015

Ethnic and migration processes in Russia after the collapse of The Soviet Union have significantly changed the ethnic composition of major Russian cities. On the one hand, we see continuing of assimilation of most national communities which historically lived in the largest Russian cities...

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The effects of migration and remittances in rural Moldova

Hristev, Eugene; Mincu, Georgeta; Sandu, Maya; … - 2009

Remittances in Moldova reach 36% of GDP, hence they constitute an essential part of the Moldovan economy. The most visible characteristic of remittances is their unequal distribution. The analysis applying the standard Lorenz Curve proves that 75% receiving households gets only 25% of total...

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Trust towards migrants

Gandelman, Néstor; Lamé, Diego - 2021

Using a standard trust game, we elicit trust and reciprocity measures in a representative sample of adult players in Montevideo, the capital city of Uruguay, a country that exhibits relatively better levels of tolerance towards migrants than other Latin American countries. We find no...

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Reurbanisierung im Kontext einer neuen Unübersichtlichkeit regionaler Entwicklungsmuster: Das Beispiel der Stadtregion Stuttgart

Schmitz-Veltin, Ansgar - In: Reurbanisierung in baden-württembergischen Stadtregionen, (pp. 77-95). 2015

For decades suburbanization was the most significant trend in intraregional migration in Germany. But during the past few years city centres have gained net immigration from urban hinterlands. This development is being discussed as re-urbanization. Using the example of Stuttgart, the paper...

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