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