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Understanding migration aversion using elicited counterfactual choice probabilities

Koşar, Gizem; Ransom, Tyler; Klaauw, Wilbert van der - 2020

This paper investigates how migration and location choice decisions depend on a large set of location characteristics, with particular focus on measuring the importance and nature of the non-monetary cost of moving. We employ a stated-preference approach to elicit respondents' choice...

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Location, Location, Location

Card, David E.; Rothstein, Jesse; Yi, Moises - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We use data from the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics program to study the causal effects of location on earnings. Starting from a model with employer and employee fixed effects, we estimate the average earnings premiums associated with jobs in different commuting zones (CZs) and...

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Educated Couples’ Location Choice and Intra-Household Bargaining

Forouzandeh, Ramin - 2023

For dual-earner, college educated straight couples, I examine the relative weight of spouse career prospects in deciding where to live. I show that higher expected wages for husbands in a potential destination tends to make it more attractive for households, relative to the same increase in...

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Now and forever? Initial and subsequent location choices of immigrants

Åslund, Olof - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2001

This paper exploits a natural experiment to study the influence of regional factors on initial and subsequent location choices among immigrants. The results suggest that immigrants to Sweden are attracted to regions with high representation from the individual’s birth country and large overall...

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Regional Sorting of Human Capital – the Choice of Location among Young Adults in Sweden

Berck, Peter; Tano, Sofia; Westerlund, Olle - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2014

Migration rates are highest among young adults, especially students, and their location choices affect the regional distribution of human capital, growth and local public sector budgets. Using Swedish register data on young adults, the choice of whether to enroll in education and the choice of...

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Attracting international research professionals to EU smart regions : evidence from Tuscany : paper presented at the ERSA 54th Congress "Regional development & globalisation: Best...

Stančova, Kateřiná - 2014

Human resources is one of the main assets of the regional innovation systems. The development and accumulation of human resources is a crucial prerequisite to keep regional R&I industries highly performing and internationally competitive. Yet, regional policies to attract international research...

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Now and forever? : initial and subsequent location choices of immigrants

Åslund, Olof - 2001

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Regional determinants of attitudes towards immigrants

Peter, Julia; Übelmesser, Silke - 2023

Attitudes toward immigrants play a crucial role in voting behaviour and political decision-making. Such attitudes are … attitudes toward immigrants are related to the economic, political, and social environment. We use individual-level data based … about and attitudes toward immigrants. We also use an information experiment in which information about the actual …

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Regional determinants of attitudes towards immigrants

Peter, Julia; Übelmesser, Silke - 2023

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Are the Chinese in Africa More Innovative than the Africans? Comparing Chinese and Nigerian Entrepreneurial Migrants' Cultures of Innovation

Kohnert, Dirk - 2010

The remarkable influx of Chinese migrant entrepreneurs in West Africa has been met with growing resistance from established African entrepreneurs. Whether the former have a competitive edge over the latter because of distinctive sociocultural traits or whether the Chinese's supposed...

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