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Zientara, Piotr - 2009

The recent accession of the former communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe to the European Union significantly changed many of its social and economic characteristics. For example, a situation was created where income differences between regions in the EU are on a par with those...

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Employment and Population in European Union: Econometric Models and Causality Tests.

Aguayo, Eva; Guisan, Maria-Carmen - Econometria, Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e … - 2004

We analyse the interdependence between non-agrarian employment, real value-added and population in 98 European regions, by means of a pool of data for the period 1985-1995, and in 5 EU countries with a pool for 1961-97. We test causality by means of Hausman´s test in these three equations...

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Ranking German regions using interregional migration : what does internal migration tells us about regional well-being?

Wirth, Benjamin - 2013 - (Preliminary draft), this version: 21st June 2013

This research project ranks German regions with help of interregional migration data instead of gross domestic product … respect to aggregate interregional migrate are based on a discrete choice of model of migration decisions. Given some … assumptions on the nature of migration costs and a structural model using double exponential extreme value function, the …

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Workers, workplaces, sorting, and wage dispersion in Mexico

Pérez Pérez, Jorge; Nuño-Ledesma, José G. - 2024

Between 2004 and 2018, the spread of wages in Mexico's private labor sector remained stable. Nonetheless, the underlying factors behind salary dispersion underwent significant shifts. To uncover these changes, we analyze an employer-employee dataset comprising the near-universe of Mexico's...

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The role of landscape amenities in regional development: A survey of migration, regional economic and hedonic pricing studies

Waltert, Fabian; Schläpfer, Felix - 2007

functions. Using this definition we identify thirty-nine relevant studies that use either migration or regional economic models … or hedonic pricing techniques. One result from the analysis of migration and regional economic studies is that intra …

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The role of landscape amenities in regional development: a survey of migration, regional economic and hedonic pricing studies

Waltert, Fabian; Schlaepfer, Felix - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2007

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Taste heterogeneity, labor mobility and economic geography - A critical reconsideration and correction

Russek, Stephan - 2007

This article reconsiders the linear new economic geography model under heterogeneous agents developed by Tabuchi and Thisse (2002) by applying an analytical technique introduced by Ludema and Wooton (1999). Two problematic aspects are identified first, the bifurcation pattern for countries which...

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Diversities in Diversity: Exploring Moroccan Migrants' Livelihood in Genoa

Alzetta, Roberto - 2006

-layered diversification process in Western societies. Migration phenomena are largely responsible for this process both in receiving European … societies as well as in original sending countries. Migration has been and continues to be a ubiquitous human experience. Yet …

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Maids and School Teachers: Low Skill Migration and High Skill Labor Supply

Freire, Tiago - 2010

Over the 40 years the pattern of migration has changed significantly with an increase in the share of female migrants … close substitute for household work. This paper analyzes how low skill rural-urban migration in Brazil from 1986 to 2000 … historical patterns of migrations, we are able to build an exogenous migration shock by skill to cities. Using this as an …

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The Impact of the Announcement of Temporary Building Sites for Refugees on House Prices in Gothenburg

Kjellander, Josef; Nilsson, Viktor; van Vuuren, Aico - 2018

We evaluate the price development of apartments in neighborhoods surrounding temporary housing for refugees using the unpredicted announcement of three building sites, targeting refugees, in Gothenburg. More in particular, we look at the price development in the year after the announcement. We...

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